Thought I would let people know that at the Hilliardton marsh 15 km form NewLiskeard Ont there is still a massive presence of yellow rumped warblers. White crowned sparrows are just showing up and no American tree sparrows have been seen yet
-- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.1/440 - Release Date: 06/09/2006 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 20 20:21:43 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from bayc1-pasmtp01.bayc1.hotmail.com (bayc1-pasmtp01.bayc1.hotmail.com [65.54.191.161]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA07F639C7 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:21:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Originating-IP: [65.95.120.231] X-Originating-Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from VALUED7B9600FA ([65.95.120.231]) by bayc1-pasmtp01.bayc1.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:21:41 -0700 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Norman Murr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ONTBIRDS" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:21:32 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Sep 2006 00:21:42.0643 (UTC) FILETIME=[E9FD0C30:01C6DD13] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]High Park - 2048 Raptors, etc. X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:21:43 -0000 Good evening=20 High Park Raptor Watch No one seems to want to report the counts sat the High Park Hawk Watch = so I thought I would at least report today's count as well as some other = birds of interest. Turkey Vulture - 16 Osprey - 3 Northern Harrier - 19 Sharp-shinned hawk - 185 Cooper's Hawk - 8 Broad-winged Hawk - 1756 Red-tailed Hawk - 12 American Kestrel - 49 The day started out with almost 100% cloud cover and by mid-morning we = were hiding under a tree to get out of the rain but most of us hung in = there and we were rewarded with the above Raptors as well as the = following species. Chimney Swift - 36 Canada Goose - 317 American Goldfinch - 28 Chipping Sparrow - 42 Common Grackle - 162 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 zipping past Blue Jay - 92 CACKLING GOOSE - 1 - With Canada Geese RED-HEADED WOODPECKER - 1 - an adult bird flying west EVENING GROSBEAK - 1 - flying west - thanks to Bob Yukich Common Loon - 67 Another nice outing thanks to the 18 or so spotters and counters. I = would like to name them but I do not know all the names so not to leave = anyone out I will name none, but of course Naish McHugh and Don Barnett = were the Raptor Watch officials present and coordinating as usual. Directions :- HAWK HILL IN HIGH PARK High Park is located in the west end of Toronto and is bounded on the = south by The Queensway, the north by Bloor Street and on the east by = Parkside Drive. To reach High Park you can take the TTC Subway to the High Park Station = or the Queen Street Streetcar #501 to either the Parkside Drive or the = Colborne Lodge Drive streetcar stops or you may drive in from High Park = Avenue at the north end of the park. Hawk Hill is east of or right beside the Algonquin Restaurant (about = halfway into the park) which is south of the soccer field. If you can = not find the hill for the trees then you can enquire at the restaurant = as to the location as almost everyone is aware of the goings on up there = now. There is always someone on the hill from Sep. 1st to around Nov. 30th. Best days are days with a good NW or N wind and if a cold front comes = along with those winds after a rainy day then you should see lots of = Raptors (No Guarantees).=20 Norm Murr Richmond Hill, ON --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Eliminate annoying spam! My mailbox is protected by iHateSpam, the #1-rated spam buster." http://www.ihatespam.net
