This morning at 9:45 I saw a Snowy Owl sitting on the ground,in a Field.This was on the South side of the 12th Line of New Tecumseth,west of the 10 Sideroad(Beeton Sideroad).at 4:20 this afternon it was in the same general location only further from the road ontop of a Fence Post. It is a very heavily Barred Bird either Female or Juvenal. Also saw a Merlin take a Snow Bunting at the Railyard on the 12th. Line of New Tecumseth,west of Tottenham Road.There is no public allowed on the Railway Property,but there are a good number of Snow Buntings seen along the road here aswell. (From North or East) Hwy 89 to the 10th. Sideroad of New Tecumseth,turn left(south) to 12th Line of New Tecumseth.West on 12th Line approx 1/4 mile on Southside.Follow the 12th Line west past Tottenham Road to Train Tracks for the Snow Buntings and Merlin! (From the South or West)Hwy 9 to Tottenham Road.Turn north on Tottenham Road through Tottenham and to the 12th Line of New Tecumseth.Turn right (East ) on the 12th Line.Almost to the 10 th Sideroad on the South Side. There are many Filds in this area that look Promising for Winter Owls. Cheer's Garth/Innisfil [EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jan 28 19:59:06 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from hotmail.com (bay10-f33.bay10.hotmail.com [64.4.37.33]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86456641FA for <[email protected]>; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:59:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:00:02 -0800 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from 152.163.100.198 by by10fd.bay10.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:59:37 GMT X-Originating-IP: [152.163.100.198] X-Originating-Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Marianne Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:59:37 -0500 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Jan 2005 01:00:02.0142 (UTC) FILETIME=[DCBEBFE0:01C5059D] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds] =?iso-8859-1?q?Harris=92s_Sparrow-Staples=2C_Ontario--_Fatality?= X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:59:07 -0000
Ontbirders, This winter has been a very wild one not only in Ontario with the Pyrrhuloxia, Grey-crowned Rosy-Finch, and being up to your knees in Great Grey Owls, but even across North America theres been some exciting bird sightings!! This is just another addition to this ongoing saga! This evening when a got home from school, my mom thought she saw a weird looking stick, sticking out off a snow bank in front of our window..I looked and saw that it was in fact a birds tail..I then ran outside, pulled the tail out and after wiping off the snow I yelled HOLY (COW) ITS A HARRISS SPARROW!!!!!!!!! The bird was in fact a 1^st winter bird and was obviously a casualty from hitting our window.poor thing..but a new yard bird, which makes that particular list around 125. Although Ive been only birding for about 13 years now, Ive never seen/heard of such a wacky winter of birding across N. Americaand that is only fueling my eagerness for all this snow to melt and start another awesome year of spring birding here in the Pelee area!!! Cant wait!!!!!! Good Birding, Marianne Reid From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jan 28 20:51:06 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from hotmail.com (bay10-f24.bay10.hotmail.com [64.4.37.24]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE21641CF for <[email protected]>; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:51:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:52:01 -0800 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from 152.163.100.198 by by10fd.bay10.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 01:51:27 GMT X-Originating-IP: [152.163.100.198] X-Originating-Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Marianne Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:51:27 -0500 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Jan 2005 01:52:01.0612 (UTC) FILETIME=[201818C0:01C505A5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds] =?iso-8859-1?q?Harris=92s_Sparrow-Staples_Ontario=2C_fatality?= X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 01:51:06 -0000 Ontbirders, This winter has been a very wild one not only in Ontario with the Pyrrhuloxia, Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch, and being up to your knees in Great Gray Owls, but even across North America theres been some exciting bird sightings. This is just another addition to this ongoing saga! This evening when a got home from school, my mom thought she saw a weird looking stick, sticking out off a snow bank in front of our window..I looked and saw that it was in fact a birds tail..I then ran outside, pulled the tail out and after wiping off the snow I yelled HOLY (COW) ITS A HARRISS SPARROW!!!!!!!!! The bird is in fact a 1^st winter bird and was obviously a casualty from hitting our window.poor thing..but a new yard bird, which makes that particular list around 125. Although Ive been only birding for about 13 years now, Ive never seen/heard of such a wacky winter of birding across N. Americaand that is only fueling my eagerness for all this snow to melt and start another awesome year of spring birding here in the Pelee area!!! Cant wait!!!!!! Good Birding, Marianne Reid My house is near Staples, east of Hwy 77, north of Leamington. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jan 28 22:33:25 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from bayc1-pasmtp01.bayc1.hotmail.com (bayc1-pasmtp01.bayc1.hotmail.com [65.54.191.161]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A450F63EC7 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:33:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Originating-IP: [65.95.25.231] X-Originating-Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from user26e8f47460 ([65.95.25.231]) by bayc1-pasmtp01.bayc1.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:36:27 -0800 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Karl Egressy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:34:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000B_01C50589.8213EED0" 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: 29 Jan 2005 03:36:28.0000 (UTC) FILETIME=[B7270600:01C505B3] X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Fifteen Great Gray Owls at Hall's Road and Lynde Shores. X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 03:33:25 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C50589.8213EED0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable We spent most of the day at the aforementioned two places. Thanks to Doug Lockrey who was very helpful as always. I would like to add to his report that we ended up counting=20 fifteen Great Gray Owls between the two places. Even if we inadvertently counted one or two of them twice, it is still an amazing number. Also two Barred Owls and one Great Horned Owl. Who could ask for any better day. Direction as per Doug. Cheers, Marienna & Karl Egressy ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C50589.8213EED0--
