Yesterday in the Holland Marsh south of Bradford there was a flock of approx. 200 Snow Buntings moving about in the fields north of Strawberry Lane. Unfortunately, the Snowy Owl seen there twice in November continues to be a no-show (i.e. I guess it's long gone - maybe even back-tracking northward due to the mild temps). Also observed in the same area was a male Northern Harrier, a Sharp-shinned Hawk, and a Cooper's Hawk. In west Bradford, a juvenile Northern Shrike has spent the last two days hunting on the east side of 10th Sdrd., just south of the arena and north of Hwy. 88. Another shrike was observed about 2 kms west of Hwy. 27 on Line 6. I struck out in search of a Carolina Wren at DiGrassi Point and three Red-bellied Woodpeckers north of Bradford (seen by Peter Wukasch during yesterday's York-Simcoe Naturalists' CBC), but took consolation in finding another flock of Snow Buntings (80+) near the east end of Line 13 and another Cooper's Hawk where Line 10 crosses the railway tracks on the northern edge of Scanlon Creek CA. Ron Fleming, Newmarket From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Dec 31 12:49:34 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts20.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.74]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12B14638B9 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:49:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from [65.95.228.158] by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.netESMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:49:34 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: OntBirds <[email protected]> From: victoria carley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:47:32 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.624) Subject: [Ontbirds]Harlequin Duck, Humber Bay, Toronto X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:49:34 -0000
Hello Ontbirders: an adult male Harlequin Duck was seen at two locations at Humber Bay East park, Toronto, this morning (between 11 and 12). the sightings were at the easterly end of the east peninsula, towards the southerly tip, and also at the northerly end tip of the same east peninsula. Both times, the bird was approx 50 yards or less from shore. Happy New Year! John and Victoria Carley Humber Bay East Park is at the base of Park Lawn Road at Lakeshore, in Toronto. park in the parking lot and follow the paths east.
