This past weekend I spotted up to 5 Trumpeter Swans (1 tagged) on Mill Pond, in Hillsburgh, along with 2 pair of Common Mergansers, a number of Canada Geese, Mallards, Redwings and Robins. The swans appeared to be 2 adult, 3 young (still fair bit of darker plumage).
There were also 12 Trumpeters on Saturday, and 5 on Sunday in a field just north of Hillsburgh, a spot commonly used by swans passing through the area. Hillsburgh is located on Trafalgar Road (County Road 24)approx. 20 minutes north of Georgetown. Mill Pond is behind the library and veterinary clinic, which is just across the parking lot from Foodland Grocery Store. It is a small village, so most folks you ask can give directions if needed. The field where swans visit is located a few minutes north of Hillsburgh on County Rd 24, on the right hand side of the road, where the field floods. It is just south of Dufferin County Rd 3. Paloma Plant ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 26 08:32:26 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp2.execulink.net (smtp2.execulink.net [69.63.44.83]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6B663894 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:32:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from peat3k7xxjb5or (ppp153.a1-2.56k.execulink.com [209.239.9.219]) by smtp2.execulink.net (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l2QCXZNn016442 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:33:36 -0400 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Pete Read" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:32:22 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Thread-Index: Acdvoszr0plyO1YBS6mSilXuP/RVGQ== X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000728-0, 26/03/2007), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds] Glaucous and Lesser Black-backed Gulls at TrembleyBeach Lake St.Clair March 25 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:32:26 -0000 Hi there, Sorry for the late report, but couldn't connect with anyone yesterday and didn't get home till late. Yesterday, the 25th, amongst many hundreds of gulls loafing on ice off Trembley Beach at the Conservation Area, there were at least two adult Glaucous Gulls and one adult Lesser Black-backed Gull. Other interesting things could have been there, but it was getting late, after 6 pm, and Sue and I were on a schedule. Off Trembley Beach, there is an interesting bunch of ice, less than 300 metres out. Looks like a long row of grounded mini-icebergs, up to 10 metres high, with some pan ice next to them. There were hundreds of gulls, mostly herring of various ages with lots of ring-bills as well. A couple dozen in various plumage Great Black-backed were also present. As I said could have been others, but did pick out the easy ones, mentioned above. In the water around these bergs, were hundreds of Canvasback, Redhead and Scaup sp. As well, there were hundreds of Common Mergansers. Add in a few puddle ducks like Mallard and Gadwall. No grebes that we saw, but as I said we were in a hurry. Note that next to the Trembley Beach CA, there is a marsh, which has thousands of blackbirds of various species (over 30 000 last time we counted) coming to roost there at dusk. Check the mouth of the Thames River, at Lighthouse Cove, if you end up going down that way, as it had some loafing gulls and bobbing ducks as well. Pete and Sue Read Directions. >From the 401, exit at interchange 56, and drive onto county road 42, heading west. Turn north onto Gracey (sic), which I think may be county 37. Go north to a weird interection, where you will stop, and scratch your head. But continue north onto county road 2, which quickly veers off to the west.aka Tecumseh Rd. a couple of kms you come to St. Peter Rd, and turn right, north (before you get to the town of Stoney Point) Head north for a short distance to a "T" intersection, and turn right and proceed to the parking area for the conservation area. From the parking area, walk a short distance to the beach lookout, down the obvious path to the east. If you go on to Lighthouse Cove, backtrack along Tecumseh (county 2) to that weird intersection, and go east on county rd 2, which may or may not be the extension of concession 2 (told you it was a weird intersection). There is no stop at the intersection for those travelling on county road 2, as it curves east at the intersection. About 2 or so kms east, is county road 39. Go north and follow signs to the village, and proceed to the end of the road at the dock at the mouth of the river.
