I am very pleased to announce that the Hawk Owl is still spending hunting time in the field next to # 5 Sideroad just south of the plaza where Wendys restaurant is (east side of Hwy 50). At around 10:30 to 11:00 this Sunday morning, four of us watched it hunt then go into a tree on the west side of the field and feed on a vole. He then flew north, very low over Hwy 50 (nearly got hit by a car) into the Husky commercial business mall. I am also impressed by the attention this little owl is causing. I met a very nice couple from New York city that arrived about 20 minutes after the owl left the field area. Best of luck to them in their future searches. Take King Road, west off Hwy 400, into Bolton. Go south on Hwy 50 (up a large hill) for a few km until you hit the Wendy's Restaurant opposite Husky's Commercial Mall. You need to turn left at this intersection and right at the next intersection in order to get to # 5 Sideroad on the south side of the mall and next to the field he visits. Wayne King King City
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Canada Personals From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 13 15:30:20 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from outbox.allstream.net (outbox.allstream.net [207.245.244.41]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7086A6452A for <[email protected]>; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:30:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from allstream.net (trt-on68-135.dial.allstream.net [142.154.113.71]) by outbox.allstream.net (Allstream MTA) with ESMTP id 0B4281EC3D4 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:31:57 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:35:29 -0500 From: Mark Cranford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ONTBIRDS <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ontbirds]Northern Hawk Owl - Port Hope X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:30:20 -0000 Bill Siverns and myself were easily able to relocate the Hawk Owl on highway 2 east of Welcome. It was on the hydro lines on the south side of the road about 300 meters west of Kellogg Road. Earlier we were unsuccessful with the Hawk Owl in Bolton. However we did locate a Great Gray Owl in Claireville Conservation Area while looking for Long-eared and Saw-whet Owls. It was in a spruce plantation past a cedar plantation (maybe the fourth plantation in). It was the only owl or sign we found. Claireville : we parked at the gate to the Conservation area on the extension of McVean Road south of Highway 7 (west of Highway 50) and walked east. Walking and owling for about 30 minutes. Hawk Owl directions from Florence Jerome Exit Hwy 401 at exit 461. Go north to Welcome, turn left (west) at the flashing light. Watch wires from Kellogg Rd. west. If you continue west to Deer Park Rd and turn north, one is likely to see a Northern Shrike within the first 1/2 km. _ -- Mark Cranford cranford AT allstream DOT net Mississauga, Ontario From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 13 16:36:08 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [205.211.164.50]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3205D645CB for <[email protected]>; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:36:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from granite.sentex.ca (ns.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1DLbOFr009917 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:37:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Received: from terryosb (p140l1llp-d4-dynamic.xDSL-1mm.sentex.ca [67.43.136.141]) by granite.sentex.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id j1DLbJf3055596 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:37:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Terry Osborne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:37:18 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/705/Fri Feb 11 11:51:32 2005 on smarthost2.sentex.ca X-Virus-Status: Clean Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Hawk Owl in Bolton X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:36:08 -0000 The Hawk Owl was present at it's usual haunts on the wires near or about = Wendy's at 12 noon today. I first saw it on Hwy 50 at the south end of = the bridge over the RR tracks. It then flew to the east side of Hwy 50 = and north of the bridge where it sat midway up in a deciduous tree. It = flew down, scooped up what appeared to be a vole and after several = mintes of sitting quietly, consumed it's lunch. Then several minutes = later, it flew across the road (Hwy 50) dangerously low, and disappeared = into one of the Austrian pines directly opposite Wendy's within the = Husky property where I'm sure it sat for a while digesting it's meal. The bird can be located on hwy 50 south of the main area of Bolton = directly across from the Wendy's store (which is just north of the = overpass over the RR Tracks) and within the east property limits of the = Husky plant. Terry Osborne From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 13 17:27:27 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts25.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.188]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5E0264595 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:27:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from oemcomputer ([64.230.35.29]) by tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:28:43 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Marc Gravel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:28:42 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2741.2600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2742.200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Great Gray Owl - Cumberland, Ontario X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:27:27 -0000 Not much to report today - Except a lone Great Gray Owl on Giroux Road = off Frank Kenny. Giroux Road is off Frank Kenny (South) - Second left after Wall Road. I = just realized, yesterday's post has an error - Hall Road should be Wall = Road - Sorry for the confusion. I checked out North Service Road throughout the day and nothing to = report here - neither was the Screech I reported a few days ago at = Petrie Island around. Marc Gravel Orleans, Ontario From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 13 18:51:23 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.82]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B40A645ED for <[email protected]>; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:51:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from unknown (HELO ?24.112.18.37?) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@24.112.18.37 with login) by smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Feb 2005 23:52:37 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.0.300 [265.8.7]); Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:55:38 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Doug Lockrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:55:38 -0500 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: [Ontbirds] Best times for Great Grays on Hall's Rd.--after sunup & before dusk; Grackle --southwest Whitby, Feb.13 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:51:24 -0000 The hundred or more people who were on Hall's or Lakeridge Rd. on Feb.13 just after sunup were treated to as many as 8 Great Gray Owls. The rest of the day was very sunny, "dictating" to these magnificent birds to leave their roadside roosts, not returning until before dusk. The Barred Owl made very few roadside appearances. With the many overwintering Red-winged Blackbirds was a Brown-headed Cowbird and a Common Grackle. Several Brown Creepers were noted during the day. 2 Rusty Blackbirds and a Barred Owl were found in the Lynde Shore woodlot area. Lakeridge Rd. and Hall's Rd. are entered south off Victoria St. in southwest Whitby. Doug Lockrey, Whitby -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.7 - Release Date: 10/02/2005
