With a lot of walking and quite a bit of luck, Hugh Currie, Richard Pope, and I managed to find most of the Algonquin specialities this weekend, but it took from noon Friday, Jan 19th to noon Sunday, Jan 21st to do so.
2 female Ruffed Grouse - 1 right beside the road 1 male Spruce Grouse - 15m up in a mature spruce beside the Spruce Bog trail, 200m north of the causeway over the bog - our last find on Sunday N. Saw-whet Owl calling north of the gate on the Opeongo Road - Saturday - heard by Hugh only. 1 male Am. Three-toed Woodpecker right behind the washrooms at the Spruce Bog parking lot - stellar views at head height and 3m distance - our second-last find on Sunday morning. Many km travelled looking for this bird and then it just appeared! NO other birders to show it to! 1 female Black-backed Woodpecker just north of the gate on Opeongo Road on Saturday. Gray Jays, Red-breasted Nuthatches - numerous 1 Boreal Chickadee just north of the Opeongo Road gate Saturday, just south of the gate Sunday - probably the same bird, with a small group of Black-cappeds. 10+ Purple Finches at the Visitor Centre feeders and a few other spots Red Crossbills - numerous and widespread, a few at Vistor Centre feeders White-winged Crossbills - large numbers everywhere, singing beautifully redpolls - one small flock of 15 birds south edge of bog at Spruce Bog Trail on Friday only - not found again Pine Siskins - numerous and vocal, many at Visitor Centre feeders Evening Grosbeaks - huge flock, 80-100, at Visitor Centre feeders - these feeders were definitely most active fairly early in the morning. No Great Gray Owl, no Pine Grosbeaks, but we could hardly complain! Margaret Bain Cobourg [EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jan 21 20:25:55 2007 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 432D3634B0 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:25:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from STUDY (pm9-ppp020.dialup.wzrd.com [24.75.6.118]) by mail.wzrd.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0M1PbYZ018770; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:25:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Willie D'Anna & Betsy Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geneseebirds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "OntBirds" <[email protected]>, "NYSBirds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Suggs, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:25:38 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-SMTP-Vilter-Version: 1.3.2 Subject: [Ontbirds]Niagara River Gulls X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:25:56 -0000 A cold day on the river brought in a good number of gulls and light winds made for reasonable comfort. At the power plants from the Adam Beck overlook, we had one first-basic BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, one immature GLAUCOUS GULL, second-basic and adult THAYER'S GULLS, and about five ICELAND GULLS. On the breakwall below the control gates, were four LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS (one first-year), a couple ICELANDS, and three GLAUCOUS GULLS. Between there and the falls were four more ICELAND, two more GLAUCOUS, and 2-3 more LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS. No sign of the California Gull that Jim Pawlicki found above the falls yesterday nor of the bird at the power plants. Good birding! Willie ---------------- Willie D'Anna Betsy Potter Wilson, NY [EMAIL PROTECTED]
