Dear Fellow Birders, The waterbird activity dropped off following this weekend, when the last bit of open water at Big Creek froze over. There are still quite a number of Rough-legged Hawks, Northern Harriers, and Bald Eagles in the area, with Big Creek and the back of BSC being the best locations to find them. A Eastern Screech-Owl was found in one of the Wood Duck boxes on the south side of the road near the Bayou Club. A few Red-winged and Rusty Blackbirds, Brown-headed Cowbirds, and Common Grackles are around, but they are scattered and a lot more difficult to find. Horned Larks and Snow Buntings are still present on the concessions, and the feeders at Old Cut have been productive lately with Field, Swamp, and White-throated Sparrows being seen amongst more regular visitors. Directions: Exit the 401 at Hwy 59 near Woodstock and follow it south all the way to Port Rowan. There is an intersection here, to the left is Front Rd (which takes you by the Bird Studies Canada office on the right), and Lakeshore Rd to the right. If you continue straight on Hwy 59 you will come into Big Creek which is the large marsh that will surround you.
Mike Boyd Long Point, Ontario From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Feb 7 19:27:34 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts40.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.97]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD35163493 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 19:27:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from smtp1.sympatico.ca ([209.226.175.203]) by tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.netSMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 19:27:34 -0500 X-Mailer: Openwave WebEngine, version 2.8.6.6 (webedge20-101-174-112-20020617)" From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 19:27:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Ontbirds]Chipping Sparrow Carleton Place (Iain wilkes) X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:27:34 -0000 Our Chipping Sparrow is still at our feeder virtually everyday. Looks like he is here for the duration iain and susan
