On my way home from Vaughan yesterday, I thought I would take the
excellent directions Ron Fleming provided and look for the snowy owls
in Holland Marsh area. On the way up Keele Street to Highway 9, a
rough-legged hawk was spooked off a roadside fencepost and flew
parallel to my vehicle for about 500 metres. North of Highway 9 and
east of Highway 400, the Snowy Owls were in the same precise spots
that Ron pointed out. One was in the middle of a field north of
Woodchopper's Road and east of Jane Street, and the other was east of
Aileen Ave between Edward Ave and Strawberry Lane. A bonus sighting
was a third Snowy perched on a TV antennae on Keel Street just south
of Kin Street. Got a very good look at her as the antennae was only
about 10 m west of the road.
All of these locations can be accessed quite easily by taking Keele
Street or Jane Street north of Highway 9 to the west of Newmarket.
Sean Geddes
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