Hi, At about 7:15 p.m. on Wednesday evening, August 11, Margaret Carney and I watched two adult Red-headed Woodpeckers flycatching from a tall telephone pole on the west side of Regional Road # 57 about 0.5 kilometres north of Shirley Road. The birds repeatedly flew up into the air above the pole and then returned to land on the side of the pole. One then flew northwest to a grove of tall, mostly-dead white cedar trees bordering the road. The location is across the road from the driveway of a large, new, two-story, red brick house north of a large red metal shed with a sign saying "Indoor and Outdoor Storage"
The location is about 3 kilometrres NNE of the village of Burketon, and about 3 kilometres SSE of the village of Blackstock. To reach Durham Regional Road # 57, exit # 401 at Waverley Road in Bowmanville.and go North. Waverly Road becomes Durham Regional Road # 57. Dennis Barry Thickson's Point, Whitby 905-725-2116 _______________________________________________ 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/
