Birders interested in trying for the American White Pelican in Aurora reported earlier today by Theo Hofmann should do so before this Sunday (August 15). Mike Van den Tillaart and I were joined at the Mackenzie Marsh this evening by John and Karen McLean who informed us that St. John's Road closes for construction starting this Sunday. St. John's Road bisects the MacKenzie Marsh. The pelican was feeding quite contentedly on the north side of the road when we left there at 9:00 p.m.
Many thanks to Theo for alterting us about this bird. His directions are as follows: "The MacKenzie Marsh is, as I said above, on the St. John's Sideroad a few hundred metres east of Yonge at the north end of Aurora. The St. John's SR can be reached from Bathurst, Yonge, Bayview and other north-south roads in the area." Ron Fleming, Newmarket P.S. To answer a few queries I had earlier this week, no I was fortunately not the Newmarket birder who fell into the pond and got stranded for 20 hours (yikes!).
