Gidday Folks! Just a short note to say that the last week has seen a noticeable movement of rough-legged hawks up here in the Hearst-Kapuskasing area with the first fall snow flurries. We have had 2 good blasts of snow now, and presently have about 2 centimeteres on the ground that is desperately hanging on to see the bright lights of Christmas! Today just along the Highway 11 corridor between Hearst and Kapuskasing 9 adults were seen, as well as many hunting the fields around the town of Hearst.
Great Gray Owl sightings have been very common the last 3 weeks with many being seen along concession roads and on the edges of abandoned agricultural fields. Unfortunately some have been hit by vehicules (3 that I know of). I have some photos of 2 separate (adult and immature) of these beaautiful birds that I come across during their daytime hunting adventures, if anyone is interested in emailing me privately. Or however photos are shared here. I am not quite sure of the protocol for this. Hearst is a small community of 6000 along the northern TransCanada Hwy #11 , 6 hours north of North Bay and 6 hours east of Thunder Bay. Marc Johnson Box 2144 Hearst ONT., P0L 1N0 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct 19 13:36:14 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts20.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.74]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6870048105 for <[email protected]>; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:36:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sympatico.ca ([64.228.47.145]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net ESMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:44:02 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:56:42 -0400 From: Stan Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-SYMPA (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en,fr-CA MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ontbirds]Markham Lesser-blackbacked gull X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:36:14 -0000 This aft in Markham at new permanent ponds abuilding in the NE corner of Ninth Line & 407 : 1 Lesser-black backed gull in winter plumage [red subterminal spot highly evident] - other species : 1 adult Glaucous gull at the Great Markham Sump [what else can I call it] at the SE corner of the new Markham bypass & the Ninth Line [this huge caldera is a permanent feature unlike Coyote Pond and an attraction for thousands of gulls plus ducks, geese and shorebirds] : 4 Dunlin in full winter plumage in pond on same bypass & a magnificent tight kettle of 26 Turkey vultures heading South - also counted 11 Cackling geese at Coyote among giant flock of Canadas - brrrrrr - Stan Long
