the Tricoloured Heron was still present and eating lots of minnows as of 7 PM this evening, August 8th, 2006. Looks like it has found a summer home. A few shots of this beauty are here in my website.. www.rayswildlife.com .. and a direct link to a shot this evening is here.. http://www.pbase.com/image/64857614
again, Kayo's directions are below. Ray and Daisy Barlow 13 Sandra Cr., Grimsby On. L3M 4Y8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim Heslop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Tricolored Heron flew from downstream and landed at his favored fishing rock at 9:00 a.m. this morning as per Kayo's excellent diections below. Good summer birding! Jim Jim Heslop 76 Parker Ave Ancaster, Ont. L9G1A7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane and Kayo Roy" To: "Ontbirds" Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 12:40 PM Subject: [Ontbirds]NF Tricolored Heron - YES The adult Tricolored Heron remains at the same location above the Falls in Niagara Falls. DIRECTIONS: Once in Niagara Falls drive along the Niagara Parkway above the Falls to Dufferin Island. Lots of tourists there at this time of the year and parking can be a real problem. Go to the south entrance road to Dufferin Island and park here. IT IS FREE. Walk back across the Parkway towards the Falls and look for the small GATE HOUSE HYDRO building (less than a 5 minute walk). It is just south of the much larger old Toronto Hydro Building (sometimes called the Engineerium building). There is a little parkette between these two buildings....walk along the NORTH side of Gate House building to the river edge. Look for the park bench closest to this small building, the heron was opposite this bench feeding on small fish standing on some very close shoreline rocks. Kayo Kayo Roy 13 Kinsman Court Fonthill, ON L0S 1E3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdshow.htm ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdshow.htm ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm Raymond J Barlow 13 Sandra Crescent Grimsby Ontario Canada L3M 4Y8 www.rayswildlife.com --------------------------------- Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 9 22:39:30 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from fep3.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1511063D25 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 22:39:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mycomputer (d36-66-24.home1.cgocable.net [24.36.66.24]) by fep3.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 84FD628E42 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 22:39:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Barry Cherriere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ONTBIRDS" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 22:39:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:20:53 -0400 Subject: [Ontbirds]Townsend birds today - Aug.9 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:39:30 -0000 From 12:00 pm to 5:30 pm we observed the shorebirds at Townsend. The south cell that was dry a month ago now has a good supply of water in it. Conditions for the shorebirds is excellent. We were at the Townsend lagoons today, Aug. 9, to sort thought the shorebirds. There were two Wilson's Phalaropes and a Red-necked Phalarope in the south cell but in the west half of (in the area where the Curlew Sandpiper was hanging about, when it was hear on May 27th of this year). Also seen were White-rumped Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpipers, Solitary Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpipers, Short-billed Dowitchers, many Lesser Yellowlegs, Wilson's Snipe, Semipalmated Plovers, too many Killdeer to mention, Ruddy Ducks,and Bonaparte's Gulls. Directions to Townsend lagoons; Take Highway # 6 south of Hagersville to HN 69 and turn right. Follow this road to the main intersection of Townsend which is a four-way stop. Turn left on the Keith Richardson Parkway and go to Regional Road 14. Turn right and go 700-800 metres to the lagoon entrance which is on the right ( north ) side of the road and be careful not to park in the truck turnaround at the entrance. Barry & Linda Cherriere Hamilton, Ontario
