Had a wander on the Jack Pine Trail south-west of Ottawa this morning. Had quite a good view of a single juvenile sora (no black facial markings) at the first boardwalk (taking the trail clockwise, that is). There was another bird, either a sora or a rail, nearby, but it ran away too fast to identify.
At the second boardwalk there was a single Virginia Rail. The Jack Pine Trail parking lot is found by searching for 45.293158,-75.815974 in Google Maps. Marc ------------------------------------------ my terrible but slowly improving bird photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/stongey _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/

