Around 8:30 this morning i relocated the Piping Plover at Hillman Marsh IT was hanging around the bridge just east of the entrance way to the marsh it seems to favour this area as this is now the sixth time i personally have seen it there .Hillman marsh is found at the intersection of county rods 20 and 37 not far from Point Pelee National Park --------------------------------- Cheap Talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Nov 12 17:35:59 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from mail.wzrd.com (mail.wzrd.com [216.207.4.8]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6096D634CB for <[email protected]>; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:35:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from STUDY (pm9-ppp016.dialup.wzrd.com [24.75.6.114]) by mail.wzrd.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kACMZFrg009648; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:35:36 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Willie D'Anna & Betsy Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "OntBirds" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:34:42 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Thread-Index: AccGqr7ebXcErFKSRTSZK2qBOi89nQ== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-SMTP-Vilter-Version: 1.3.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Barrow's and Hybrid Goldeneyes - Stoney Creek X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 22:36:00 -0000
Betsy and I met up with Kevin McLaughlin today for some lake watching in Grimsby and Stoney Creek. The highlight birds were both at the end of Grays Road (take the QEW exit at Fruitland Road to the east or Centennial Parkway to the west and take the QEW North Service Road to Drakes Road to Grays Road and proceed north to Lake Ontario). There was a large raft of mostly goldeneyes and scoters with Long-tailed Ducks and scaup mixed in. They were also visible from Sayer's Park just a little east of Grays Road. Watch for the No Parking signs and park where they are not. Anyway, we had an adult male Barrow's Goldeneye and an apparent adult male hybrid Barrow's X Common Goldeneye in this raft at the foot of Grays Road. Intermediate traits noticed on the hybrid were the rather crescent-shaped white head spot - rounded on the bottom and pointed on the top, more black on the back than on a Common forming larger white elongated spots than on a Barrow's, and a suggestion of the Barrow's black spur at the shoulder. Also in this raft was an immature male Goldeneye with a bright orange bill and small white head spots coming in which I only had a brief study of. At the foot of Fifty Road (there is an exit from the QEW) we had an adult Iceland Gull. Good birding! Willie ---------- Willie D'Anna Betsy Potter Wilson, NY [EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Nov 12 17:39:12 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts10.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.54]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA118638E6 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:38:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from trentu.ca ([216.208.194.27]) by tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:42:31 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:42:30 -0500 From: Fred Helleiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ontbirds]Three-toed Woodpecker @ Presqu'ile. X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 22:39:12 -0000 At noon today, after searching unsuccessfully for the Black-backed Woodpecker that Don Shanahan had found on Friday and that had been re-discovered this morning by Maureen Riggs and Marg Fleming, I found a female Three-toed Woodpecker in the same general area, and Don was able to photograph it soon after that. Directions by way of a repeat of Don's original posting: > While strolling along the Fingers Trail at Presqu'ile this afternoon, > I found a female Black-backed Woodpecker. This trail is not signed but > starts at a wooden gate approximately .9km along the main road from > the park's admission booth. The gate, on the east side, leads to a > trail through the panne and then into the mixed forest. About 80m > along into the forest, a sawed-off log to the right has a piece of > flagging tape on it. To the right of this is an open grove containing > the dead trees the woodpecker foraged on. > Presqu'ile Provincial Park is located south of Brighton (HW 401 exit > 509). As there are no ducks nearby, the Fingers Trail is open every day. The Three-toed (it actually had six) was not quite as far into the woods as mentioned above. Stop when you have to duck under some cedar boughs and look at a dense fallen spruce on the left side of the trail. -- -- Fred Helleiner 186 Bayshore Road, R.R. #4, Brighton, Ontario, Canada, K0K 1H0 VOICE: (613) 475 5309 If visiting, access via Presqu'ile Provincial Park.
