The first bird counted on the first day of the Niagara Peninsula Hawkwatch's 37th season was a Peregrine Falcon that flew east across Beamer Memorial Conservation Area at 09:45 today. In the next hour a Red-tailed Hawk and an early dark-morph Rough-legged Hawk came by. Although it was a blue sky day, the wind became quite brisk and made counting decidely chilly. This wasn't enough, however, to stop two Turkey Vultures from flying through, flapping hard. Two more Red-tails rounded out the day.
Beamer Conservation Area is located atop the Niagara Escarpment on Quarry Rd., off Ridge Road West, 1.2 km west of Mountain Rd. (access from the Queen Elizabeth Way, Chrisitie St. exit) or 1.2 km east of Woolverton Rd. in Grimsby, Ontario. (access from the QEW, Casablanca Rd. exit). Mike Street Ancaster, Ontario, Canada [email protected] _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
