Saturday July 2, Am. White Pelican on its usual log across the marsh from the platform by the GM building, roosting and preening.
There is a gravel lane with a gated and locked entrance east end of the bridge on Col Sam Dr, east side of the water treatment plant. The lane runs up the west side of the marsh to the lake. We walked up that way to see if there was a better view. Lots of wildflowers and butterflies along this lane, swallows, kingfisher, empidonax flycatchers, downy w.p., numerous swamp sparrows singing energetically, some good breaks for viewing terns, swans, ducks, moorhen. Just before arriving parallel to the pelican's roosting spot between noon and 12:30 pm the pelican took flight and flew west along the lake shore. Great view as it headed past us. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Rayfield Pye <[email protected]> wrote: > American White Pelican- 1 > Friday, July 2, at 7 PM > Oshawa Second Marsh > > Several evening this week the Pelican has been on the island west of the > GM platform around 7 to 7:30 PM. It spends about an hour preening before > settling down for the night. > > Directions:Exit from the 401 at the Harmony Rd (exit # 419) > Go south on Farewell St. to Colonel Sam Drive. > Go east on Colonel Sam Drive to the GM Canada Headquarters. > Park in the lot on the west side of the building and walk west to the > viewing > platform. > > Rayfield Pye > Oshawa > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ 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/
