At approximately 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, June 19, 2011 while walking through the Ojibway Prairie Grass Provincial Nature Reserve in Windsor Rosann Kovalcik and I flushed a pair of Northern Bobwhite. I do not know the providence of these birds, however several years ago when I was planning to carry out an introduction program of Northern Bobwhite at the closed Essex County Landfill Site No. 3 (a 300 acre grassland habitat in the former Maidstone Township) I could not locate an Ontario supplier of breeding stock. We entered the reserve from the sorth side off of Titcombe Avenue and took the trail south through the centre of the reserve. The Bobwhites were seen approximately 2/3rds of the way south across the reserve near where there are 4 fairly large Eastern Cottonwood trees beside the trail with large burned areas on the lower trunks. Looking westerly through the Cottonwood trees we could see the light fixtures in the Windsor Raceway parking lot and a red cell phone or cable repeater tower. The Reserve itself is located off of Matchette Road in Windsor immediately across the road from the Ojibway Nature Centre.
Todd R. Pepper 36 Cherrywood Avenue Leamington, ON, N8H 4Z9 [email protected] "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin" William Shakespeare _______________________________________________ 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/
