Last evening at approximately 4:50 p.m. I spotted a Short-eared Owl sitting on a sign at the PetroCanada Plant on the Burlington/Oakville border. The bird was seen from Great Lakes Blvd which is runs off of Burloak as you come south from the QEW. I'm not sure if it will stick around however habitat seems ideal there so its worth a check.
Directions: Take QEW to Burloak Drive. Where Burloak meets Great Lakes Blvd., take Great Lakes Blvd and look east in the fields which border the plant. The bird was seen on the east side of Great Lakes Blvd just north of Rebecca. Cheers, Cheryl Edgecombe From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Dec 28 12:05:22 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts9.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.53]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D432AA0163 for <[email protected]>; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:05:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from mxmta.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.62]) by tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.netSMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:06:03 -0500 X-Mailer: Openwave WebEngine, version 2.8.6.6 (webedge20-101-174-112-20020617)" From: Frank Pinilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:06:03 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Ontbirds] Great Gray Owl - Marmora , Boreal Owl - Amherst Is. - Mon Dec 27 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:05:23 -0000 Hi All, I went to Amherst Island yesterday and saw the Boreal Owl (as noted in Alex & Karen Scott's note), which was in a White Cedar on the right side of the main path about 200m before you get to the Jack Pine plantation. I'm not sure if anybody has mentioned this, but there is a Brown Thrasher at the feeders (before getting to the Jack Pine area), it is very skittish and was only seen from a distance as it flew off. I also had a Short-eared Owl flying around the south side of the Jack Pines, which had been roosting on the edge of the plantation. Also, arriving to the ferry docks, there was an adult Bald Eagle lazily making it's way along the north shore of the island. On the way back I headed up to Marmora and found one of the Great Gray Owls previously mentioned, just north-east of the town. The bird was quietly sitting behind a barn on the north side of Centre Line, the barn says "JeeBee Stables" on it, the bird was well camouflaged in the deciduous trees behind the barn. Cheers, Happy Holidays & Good Birding, Frank Pinilla Toronto, ON DIRECTIONS: Boreal Owl (borrowed from Alex & Karen Scott): Amherst Island is 16 km west of Kingston. Take exit # 593 from Highway 401, proceed south on County Road #4 (formerly Highway 133) to Millhaven on Lake Ontario - the ferry dock is 200m west on Hwy 33 (Bath Road). A round trip costs $5.00. The ferry leaves every hour on the half hour from 6:30 am onward. To get to the "Owl Woods" after getting off the ferry: When you get off the ferry and drive up to the stop sign, proceed straight through on Stella Forty-foot Rd., to the south end, at the lake. Turn left, and drive to the intersection of the Marshall forty-foot Rd. (immediately east of 2090 South Shore Road). Proceed 1.3 km north to the S-curve. Walk north-east on the trails. Great Gray Owl (borrowed from Robert Gapes): Marmora is on highway # 7 about 35 minutes north of Belleville and/or Trenton. It is 45 minutes east of Peterborough. In Marmora go north at the stoplight and continue until you come to a stop sign. This entails driving through the village and up a hill and down the other side. Turn right at stop sign which says Main Street and soon becomes Cordova Road. Just over a kilometre out of town, turn right on Centre Line (first right). About 1.8 km. out there is a barn with a large name on it saying "JeeBee Stables". The owl was right behind the barn. ************* Frank Pinilla Toronto, ON e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
