The American Avocet at Holland Landing was still present this morning, looking hale and hearty (and relaxed) in the 4th cell. On the way out of the lagoons at 9:30 I observed a smallish buteo (i.e. not a Red-tail) that flushed from the trees on the south side of the "gate lane" to a tree on the north side. The bird sat still long enough for some very good scope views revealing rufous scapular lines, fairly thick brown chest streaking, a light supercilium, and a brownish malar extension: juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk. As I returned to my car it flew deeper into the woodlot on the north side of the lagoons. Ron Fleming, Newmarket DIRECTIONS: The Holland Landing lagoons are just north of Newmarket, which in turn is about 30 minutes directly north of Toronto. From Davis Drive/Hwy.9 in mid-Newmarket, turn north at the lights on Yonge Street (the Upper Canada Mall will be on the NW side of this busy intersection). Drive past all the "big box" stores in the north part of Newmarket (past Tim Horton's, Canadian Tire, Home Depot, Future Shop, Costco, Silvercity Cinemas, etc.) and past the Victory Church to the stoplights beside Brooklin Concrete and the Newmarket Inn (this is about 2 kms north of Green Lane). Turn right into Holland Landing and follow the curving descent to the lights at the bridge (don't take the left near the bottom of the hill). The bridge crosses the railway tracks, then the East Holland River. Go north past Mount Albert Rd. You will be on Old Yonge Street. Keep going north through town, past Beckett Ave. You will go through a little curve in the road where there are conifer stands on both sides, then you will pass Doane Rd. on the right. About a km after that you will see two white wagon wheels and a Maximum 60 sign; this is Cedar St. Turn right (east) and follow it to the dead end.
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 31 13:48:23 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from mx2-1.spamtrap.magma.ca (mx2-1.spamtrap.magma.ca [209.217.78.160]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1247D638BD for <[email protected]>; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:48:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail4.magma.ca (mail4.internal.magma.ca [10.0.10.14]) k7VHmFJd012304 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:48:18 -0400 Received: from [64.26.165.93] (ottawa-dial-64-26-165-93.d-ip.magma.ca [64.26.165.93]) by mail4.magma.ca (Magma's Mail Server) with ESMTP id k7VHmDSq029127 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:48:15 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: Ontbirds <[email protected]> From: Eve Ticknor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:42:33 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-magma-MailScanner-Information: Magma Mailscanner Service X-magma-MailScanner: Clean X-Spam-Status: Subject: [Ontbirds]Great Egret south of Ottawa airport and pond X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:48:23 -0000 There has been a Great Egret at a pond south of our Airport on Earl Armstrong Rd, just east of the former railway tracks, between Bowesville and High Rds. It has been coming there for 3 days now and can usually be seen at the easter end of this pond. A note about the pond. which has been a stopover for hundreds of Canada Geese and other waterfowl, especially in the fall. There is construction going on there and part of the pond has been filled in. In talking with a man working there, I have learned that the pond is to be entirely filled in, a job that will take a while yet, considering they have done maybe a third since November. The reason for this? The owner wants to lower his taxes! Eve Eve Ticknor OFNC Falcon Watch Coordinator 38-9 Gillespie Cres. Ottawa, Ontario K1V 9T5 Canada 859-9545 (c) 737-7551 (h) "Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."
