Excuse my spelling and Grammar, I am Dyslexic thank you. Carol Horner and I had a great day birding in the GTA today first we drove out to Thickson woods wear we found the Great Gray Owl (only 1) and yes the phetonut which we all wear hoping wood fall in to the stream but he did not ! also the Great Horned Owl was seen in the woods proper . We took a look in Whitby Harbor and Prigall creek but no luck finding the Sand hill crane ?? Then over to Lynde shores wear we saw the Saw Whit Owl 1 (thanks Glean ) and the Bard Owl 1 in the wood lot .Over at Hall rd 2 moor Bard Owl's wear seen at the north path way and 1 long eared Owl was seen at the south . Out in the fields we saw 3 Ruff L Hawk's wear seen and 2 RT Hawks , and 4 red wing black birds . On the Whitby Ajax lake rd (one rood to the west ) 1 other Great Gray owl was seen . But the best was at the Frenchman's Bay found at the foot Liverpool rood out in the bay wear near 500 Gulls wear seen including 15 Glaucous gulls wear seen and 3 Iceland gulls well worth the time put in looking !! we also found 10 Trumpeter swans hear lots to see. Thickson's Woods is located at the foot of Thickson's Road in Whitby. Lynde shores is found off Victoria st west in the town of Whitby and Halls rd south runs also off of Victoria . Craig Craig & Bev McLauchlan Toronto, Ont, Canada the World
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jan 8 18:35:20 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts13.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.34]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C446CAD1E for <[email protected]>; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:35:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from brucedb4u2q8ov ([64.230.29.105]) by tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.netESMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:35:43 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Bruce Di Labio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ontario birds" <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:35:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Ottawa Area: More Great Gray Owls X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 23:35:20 -0000 Hi Everyone Just got back from afternoon of counting Great Grays and the numbers continue to rise. I had 29 Great Gray Owls west of Ottawa at many of the known locations. In the area of the intersection of Dunrobin Road and Kilmaurs Side Road I had an amazing number- 14 ! Also during the day I observed 2 Barred Owls, one along Carling Ave. near Rifle Road and one near Thomas Dolan Parkway and Stonecrest Road. Both owls were observed perched during the day light hours. Also, I observed 4 Northern Shrike and 5 Bohemian Waxwing. The waxwings were at Dunrobin and the shrikes were along March Valley Rd., Huntmar Rd., Kinburn Side Rd and Carling Ave.& Rifle Rd. The Red-headed Woodpecker was still present on January 4th at Constance Bay. If you require additional information, please contact me privately. Good Birding Bruce Bruce Di Labio 400 Donald B. Munro Drive P.O.Box 538 Carp,Ontario,K0A 1L0 (613)839-4395 Home (613)715-2571 Cell Di Labio Birding Website Courses and Field Trips http://www3.sympatico.ca/bruce.dilabio/ Directions:Red-headed Wdpk: From Ottawa travel west bound on Hwy. 417 to the March Rd./Eagleson Road and exit right onto March Rd. Follow to Dunrobin Road and turn right continuing northwest through Woodlawn. At the hill turn right onto Constance Bay Rd following it for approx. 1.5 km. Turn left on Allbirch Road and drive 1.3 km to the " T " intersection. Turn left on Bishop Davis Drive and then right on Bayview Drive. Follow Bayview Drive to Ritchie St. Turn right and go a short distance to Whistler Rd. Turn left and drive .3 km and watch for a gate on the right. The trail through the burn area is opposite the gate. Parking is limited. The old burn area is on your left. From the corner of Ritchie and Whistler,the road is not maintained during the winter months. My parents live at 114 Goodin St. which is off Ritchie St. GGO Directions: From Ottawa travel west bound on Hwy. 417 to the March Rd./Eagleson Road and exit right onto March Rd. Follow to Dunrobin Road and turn right continuing northwest through Woodlawn. At the hill continue straight and follow to next intersection which has a yellow flashing light.
