Hi Everyone
Mary Schuster and I had a great weekend of birding in and around southern
Ontario.
Yesterday, Saturday we found the Harlequin Ducks at Ben Macree Park as
previously reported. We had to spend a couple of hours looking for them,
even though we had it on good authority they were there just before we
arrived. They did eventually fly in and give us good looks. We went on to
look for the King Eiders at Stoney Creek and the Tufted Duck at Port Weller
with no luck. There were almost no ducks at Stoney Creek, and visibility
was very limited due to the formation of ice and snow banks along the lake
shore.
Today we went up to the MacGilvary and Rutherford Rd area and found the
Snow Buntings and Horned Larks. Of the 4 birders there at the time 3 of us
had about a 3 second look at a single Lapland Longspur. We spent another
cold hour trying to relocate it with no luck.
Finally we went in search of Snowy Owls. We searched the Shelbourne area
where one was seen about 2 weeks ago, with no luck, then tried Ravenshoe
Road west of Leslie St near Keswick. Here we were lucky to spot a very
distant Snowy Owl in one of the fields.
Directions as noted in previous Ontbirds posts:
Harlequin Ducks:
From the Q.E. exit Hurontario St. South to the Lakeshore Rd. go west to
Maple, and South to Ben Macree Park.
From the West exit the Q.E. at Mississuaga Rd. drive South to Lakeshore Rd.,
and head West to Maple, and turn right, and head South to Ben Macree Park.
Buntings, Longspur and Larks:
This area is northeast of the intersection of Hwys. 50 & 7, just above
Woodbridge and southwest of Kleinburg.
Today the birds were about 1km north of the intersection of MacGillvray and
Rutherford Rds, on the west side.
Snowy Owl:
From Newmarket go north on Leslie Street then west on Ravenshoe Rd. Search
the farm fields between Leslie and the dead end of the road.
Good Birding
Carol
Carol Horner
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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