At 4 A.M. this moring, Thursday December 14, I recieved a phone call from the hospital in Hagersville. The nurse told me at some point during the night they went to check on him and he was not breathing. All efforts to revie him were exausted but to no success.
Myself and my brother James would like to thank everyone who was able to visit him during his down times, especially those affiliated with th Haldimand Bird Observatory. Steve Miles From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 14 06:36:20 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp109.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp109.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.207]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5EDC634C9 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:36:19 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 66602 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2006 11:36:20 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:Subject:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=ScVKsy4JH6aCnMTGltwRx8FfpRQwwxovbfWuy/5qWtbYJC+4NM1n+9wqodu5xDCXBHqGUFpvdnpzyYAdWTpg/pz+sRilHkeXRQp/GWYp4kYIfgfQR9Dsa3McZya3goTtXKNgypvjdQKcyX13Zh9MBgpAtWKi6QjIagmJxdv9Qic ; Received: from unknown (HELO rogers.com) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@74.114.178.79 with plain) by smtp109.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Dec 2006 11:36:20 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: pOUqD0YVM1m22uE7jCzM5LseWzJ.H7HJKo4Y9iuq.6ZYCLBHZC_Q0HZREyxHu0WSecplvna4rPjVEufp0863ov7AKj483oXcc.KNJm3zq5p3t330RwYVBSfdKu7d3EUNs043UajYenxlJ.Q- Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:36:19 -0500 From: Larry Staniforth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [email protected] Subject: [Ontbirds]Razorbill, Slaty-backed Gull and Purple Sandpiper Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:36:20 -0000 While leading a bird hike from the Guelph Field Naturalists on Wednesday, we were able to find all three of these species. The Razorbill was viewed from the parkette. It was swimming about 100 ft. further out than the green bouy towards the middle of the rivermouth. The bird stayed on the surface for about 5 minutes before it began diving and feeding. The Slaty-backed Gull was located on the breakwall south of the control structure in Chippawa. We viewed the bird from the pull off on the east side of the Niagara Parkway just past the point where the divided highway ends. The Purple Sandpiper(s) were found on the the moss covered rocks about 200 ft out in the river about 150 ft upriver from the barge. We found 3 birds on the rocks. (Thanks to Kayo Roy for pointing out the rocks). Also found on our outing were: Red-throated Loon - off the parkette in NOTL, Belted Kingfisher - the marina at NOTL, Iceland Gull (possibly Kumlien's) - above the falls, middle of the river just north of the barge. Larry Staniforth Guelph To reach Niagara-on-the-Lake take the QEW to exit #38 and head to Niagara-on-the-Lake. As you reach town continue straight until the T intersection at the golf course. Turn right, take the first left, this road bends to the right after ~ 100 m, continue about another 200 m to the parkette on the left. To the Marina - NOTL - As you leave the parkette, turn left and proceed about 1/2 mile you will see the marina on the left side. We parked in the small parking lot just past the marina on the left. Directions to Niagara on the lake
