There is still a BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD visiting Joan Love's feeders on the north side of Major Mackenzie Drive, first driveway west of Hwy. 27 in Kleinburg. The feeders are on the east side of the house. She has also had a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW showing up and there is a juvenile NORTHERN SHRIKE that comes in to keep an eye on things from time to time. Politely identify yourself, of course. Just south and west of this, there were still about 20 HORNED LARKS in the fields on the west side of MacGillvray Road, about 2 kms. north of Rutherford Road. I observed no less than 20 Red-tailed Hawks on Hwy. 407 between Hwy. 400 and the Derry Road exit in northwest Mississauga today. There was one light-phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK on the south side of the highway near Mississauga Road. In the Newmarket area late this afternoon I flushed a RUFFED GROUSE when I got out of the car to look at a GREAT GRAY OWL on the west side of Bathurst, about 1 km. north of Green Lane. I observed three other GGOs on the next road west, which is Dufferin Avenue. One was just south of Miller Sdrd. in the sunken area west of the T-intersection and the other two were hunting in the field at address #18665. There was also an adult NORTHERN SHRIKE in this area. There was one more GGOW on the east side of Keele Street, about 0.7 kms north of Hwy. 9. All of the owls were seen after 4:30 p.m. There are, at the very least, 12 Great Grays in the Newmarket area, all of them north of Hwy. 9 and just west of the main part of town. They are most active late in the day, but seem to come out of hidden roosts on days when the conditions are, by human standards, fairly miserable. Keeping your distance will give these birds a chance to hunt successfully, which they need to do for survival. Ron Fleming, Newmarket From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jan 16 20:02:56 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from app2.nasc.inter.net (nasc-out-2.nasc.inter.net [203.176.60.254]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E325BB497 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:02:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from ip3-137.eyrkonaeac04.dialup.ca.telus.com ([209.29.166.137] helo=touchp4) by app2.nasc.inter.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 1CqLIk-0007Jg-00 for [email protected]; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:03:27 -0500 From: "Ian Parsons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:03:34 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]pair of owls in holland landing X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 01:02:56 -0000
Hi there. This afternoon (the 16th) at 4:30 pm, I saw a pair of owls I believe to be barred owls in the Holland landing area. The light was poor and there was quite a distance between myself and the birds, however, they were quite upset by my presence, smaller owls, and lacked a distinct bright eye. I also assume because they were paired, they were a local breeding pair, not great grey owls. To find them, drive through Holland landing along yonge street, till it dead ends at the queensville sideroad, turn left, turn left again at the 2nd concession road, and left again on holburn rd. approx. half way between 2nd and leslie, is a patch of woods on the left, with an open field behind it, they were traveling from the right side of the road to the clearing on the left, soaring for mice. Please let me know if you see or can confirm the id. Tracey Etwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aurora, ON From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jan 16 20:35:40 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from hotmail.com (bay21-dav18.bay21.hotmail.com [65.54.233.198]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70860BA629 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:35:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 17:36:00 -0800 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from 209.226.116.91 by BAY21-DAV18.phx.gbl with DAV; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 01:35:19 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [209.226.116.91] X-Originating-Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "wonkothesane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:35:18 -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 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Jan 2005 01:36:00.0958 (UTC) FILETIME=[E68AEDE0:01C4FC34] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]More Great Grey Owls in Ottawa X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 01:35:44 -0000 Greetings all=20 Spent a pretty long day introducing some newbie birders to some of the = great grey owls around the west end and the numbers seemed even higher = than the last few days, The Kilmaurs side road area was packed with owls = with at least 19 birds including 12 visable at one time just north of = dunrobin rd on kilmaurs side rd. and there seemed to be a few more birds = spread out in other relativly nearby areas including thomas dolan = parkway on the carp ridge as well as kinburn side rd. also a couple not = far from dunrobin both on dunrobin rd before the town as well as one not = far from the osprey nest platform furthur up thomas dolan. Of course a = fair bit of activity along the March Valley Road with at least 9 GGO = present this morning . Can't be sure but i think they are planning to = overthrow the goverment as i managed to see at least 43 GGO today while = traveling around the west end plus one snowy owl on rushmore just east = of eagleson . Mark Combellack From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jan 16 21:14:48 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from web51603.mail.yahoo.com (web51603.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.38.208]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6784BBB52F for <[email protected]>; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:14:48 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 39150 invoked by uid 60001); 17 Jan 2005 02:15:21 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=PzFl7MDstj3GDv5arzlg0qqu3asEXjjhG1+5dFlJLjfKKZ/nFZVtCY0zZI8y3NgWuYJ4bDwmfa1tfV6zyc2HOaeX3Hfz2j1ldE8NFZw6zUYSdgt7dHARmQ1T53jIZplatwtgMG6lBRrYYuyxWn+Xkxcsr1cHD+owxmWVtnYbg0U= ; Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [69.199.210.193] by web51603.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:15:21 EST Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:15:21 -0500 (EST) From: wayne king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]GGO's Return to Newmarket X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 02:14:48 -0000 During the warm spell this past week I found no Great Gray Owls in the usual spots along Keele St.and Dufferin St. just north of Hwy 9, west of Newmarket or along Bathurst St. north of Yonge St. Today however, with the return of some snow and colder weather, I found 7 GGO's. Three were seen hunting north of Yonge Street just off Bathurst on Marina Road. Another was seen on Dufferin St., north of Hwy 9, approx. 100 m. north of Miller Road and 3 more were seen on Keele St. about one km. north of Hwy 9. Many people were stopping to look as a few of the owls sat right next to the roadways. Their presence is becoming more popular and traffic jams are beginning to occur. Be careful when stopping along some of these streets since they have very narrow or no shoulders at all to stop along. Enjoy these beautiful birds, Wayne King King City PS. The Northern Shrike is still being seen at the north end of Bathurst St., north of Yonge St., in the open field area. --------------------------------- Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jan 16 21:51:43 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from mail.interlinks.net (incoming.interlinks.net [209.5.77.1]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 883FFBA8EE for <[email protected]>; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:51:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from a4k8w5 (209-5-79-245.interlinks.net [209.5.79.245]) by mail.interlinks.net (8.12.9/8.12.8) with SMTP id j0H2pwrY001825 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:52:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Rayfield Pye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:46:10 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Subject: [Ontbirds]Great Gray Owl Survey- Durham Region X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 02:51:43 -0000 Great Gray Owl Survey- Durham Region (south of Taunton Road) Sunday, January 16, 2005 Great Gray Owls- 31 Pickering- 0 Ajax- 1 Whitby- 15 Oshawa- 3 Bowmanville- 6 Newcastle- 6 Teams- 6 Counters- 12+ Kms covered- 338 hours- 17 Other Owls- Barred Owl- 4 Great Horned Owl- 1 Rayfield Pye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Durham Rare Bird Line Oshawa
