Hi All, I went up to the Hwy 60 corridor yesterday (Monday October 11), only arriving around 1pm, nothing really uncommon but may be of interest to others.
At the airfield no Le Conte's Sparrows but did have 27 Horned Lark, 1 Lapland Longspur, 2 Savannah Sparrows, and 25+ Black Ducks, also had a Northern Goshawk circling over the ridge to the south of the airfield, seemed to be making it's way west (migrating?). At Spruce Bog I had a low flying Sharp-shinned Hawk (afternoon search for Spruce Grouse, no luck) and at Bat Lake (walking the trail backwards, just to the lake) I had a Boreal Chickadee. Behind the sanitation station, I called in a female Black-backed Woodpecker (decided to hoot a couple of times and she immediately came in). At Mizzy Lake Trail, I had both male & female BBWO at West Rose Lake, also called in a Hairy, Pileated and a Barred Owl was calling (around 6pm) from the north (?) side of West Rose, also here at dusk were 6 Rusty Blackbirds and 6 Hooded Mergansers at Wolf Howl Pond. Cheers & good birding, Frank DIRECTIONS: Hwy 11 at Huntsville, exit Hwy 60 east, from here 45 km to the West Gate of the Park. Old Airfield is located along the Mew Lake Campground access road, park at a small parking lot on the left at the beginning of the Old Railway Bike Trail and walk around the airfield. Spruce Bog Trail is at km 42.5 Sanitation Station is at km 35.6 and there is a gravel parking area behind the sanitation station, bird was spotted just beyond the wooden gate. Wolf Howl Pond & West Rose Lake are on the Mizzy Lake Trail and can be accessed by driving 4.8km up Arowhon Rd and then turning right onto an abandoned railway and follow 0.6km to chain gate, park well to the side and walk in 1.5km to Wolf Howl and another 1km to West Rose.
