While cycling after work today I finally got my first Red-winged Blackbirds of the year just north of Hwy. 9 along the canal in the Holland Marsh. A sweeter sound than that species' raucous call was a Brown Creeper singing from the swamp on the north side of the canal, west of Hwy. 400. At 6:10 p.m. I had my first Killdeers of the spring, four of them together just west of the little bridge where Line 5 and 5th Sdrd. meet (west of Bradford, but east of Hwy. 27). Ron Fleming, Newmarket Bradford is north of Toronto, about halfway to Barrie. _______________________________________________ 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/
