Hello Fellow Birders, Today while birding-by-car Carl & I were able to spot a Short-eared Owl in clear sight sitting in a field about fifty yards from the road. The lovely owl was seen most of the afternoon on Mersea Rd. C on the west side of the road heading towards Beachside Dr. just before you get to Kildeer. The road is one lane due to road work. There are many huge cement blocks on the east side of the road. It is passable by half-circle indents on the east side. It is at the first indentation where a lone tree shoots straight up that we were able to look to the west side of the road and see the owl.
Also, many Rough-legged Hawks, Northern Harriers, Red-tails and Coops throughout the onion fields. We were looking for Snowy Owls but ran out of light by 4 p.m. Earlier at Pt. Pelee, a Rough-legged was hunting along the marsh close to the entrance of the park. It had a couple of favourite trees to perch. A Hermit Thrush and a White-throated Sparrow was spotted along the roadside closer to the Point. On the road leading past Hillman Marsh towards the lake where the turn is made to Wheatly, many feeders are outside of the few small homes. Species to note were: several Cowbirds, Red-winged Blackbirds and a group of chatty Grackles. Buffleheads, Common Mergansers & a couple of Common Goldeneyes were present at the Wheatly point where Foxrun Road runs to the Lake. Good winter birding. Rachel Powless Carl Pascoe West Bloomfield, MI From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 27 21:29:51 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from imo-d04.mx.aol.com (imo-d04.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.36]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC7A9F3BD for <[email protected]>; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:29:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from [EMAIL PROTECTED] by imo-d04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id 1.1a1.2d1b6c03 (3996) for <[email protected]>; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:30:23 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:30:23 EST To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5116 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Short-eared Owl near Pt. Pelee X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 02:29:52 -0000 Hello Fellow Birders, Today while birding-by-car Carl & I were able to spot a Short-eared Owl in clear sight sitting in a field about fifty yards from the road. The lovely owl was seen most of the afternoon on Mersea Rd. C on the west side of the road heading towards Beachside Dr. just before you get to Kildeer. The road is one lane due to road work. There are many huge cement blocks on the east side of the road. It is passable by half-circle indents on the east side. It is at the first indentation where a lone tree shoots straight up that we were able to look to the west side of the road and see the owl. Also, many Rough-legged Hawks, Northern Harriers, Red-tails and Coops throughout the onion fields. We were looking for Snowy Owls but ran out of light by 4 p.m. Earlier at Pt. Pelee, a Rough-legged was hunting along the marsh close to the entrance of the park. It had a couple of favourite trees to perch. A Hermit Thrush and a White-throated Sparrow was spotted along the roadside closer to the Point. On the road leading past Hillman Marsh towards the lake where the turn is made to Wheatly, many feeders are outside of the few small homes. Species to note were: several Cowbirds, Red-winged Blackbirds and a group of chatty Grackles. Buffleheads, Common Mergansers & a couple of Common Goldeneyes were present at the Wheatly point where Foxrun Road runs to the Lake. Good winter birding. Rachel Powless Carl Pascoe West Bloomfield, MI From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 27 21:59:38 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 EB83E9F8F0 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:59:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from jean-bapu1sw48i.sympatico.ca ([69.158.98.230]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.netESMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:00:12 -0500 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:56:49 -0500 To: [email protected] From: Jean Iron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: [Ontbirds]Great Gray Owl or Great Grey Owl? X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 02:59:38 -0000 Dear Ontbirders, Since this is one of the biggest irruptions of Great Gray Owls ever, we would like to remind Ontbirders that the official spelling in Canada is Great Gray Owl. This spelling is used by the Canadian Museum of Nature, Bird Studies Canada, Canadian Society of Ornithologists, Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario Field Ornithologists, Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas, etc. The official names of birds on the Ontario Bird Checklist can be viewed here http://www.ofo.ca/obrc/chcklst.htm Happy owling, Ron Pittaway and Jean Iron Toronto and Minden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
