Winter can't be far ahead--our first AMERICAN TREE SPARROW at the 2007 Cranberry Marsh Raptor Watch--it landed in a nearby tree. An unbelievably warm morning brought out the short sleeves at the viewing platform. Other non-raptor highlights--male & female Eastern Towhee, 2 Yellow-rumped Warblers, swamp sparrow, song sparrow, white-crowned sparrow, white-throated sparrow, dark-eyed junco, both kinglets,-----, AND 5 Monarch Butterflies and an yellow-orange Sulphur, AND 2 white-tailed deer jaunted through the cattails 10m. in front of us.
Over 3 hours the migrating raptors amounted to 28 Sharp-shinned Hawks. Doug Lockrey, coordinator CMRW _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdshow.htm ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm
