February 21 (10:32- 11:30) - While looking at the Bald Eagle on Strawberry Island from Aqua Lane today, I observed a King Eider (first winter female?) in front of Strawberry Island. The eider would float passed the island until it was about half an island length passed the island and then fly upstream and land about a quarter of an island length south of the island and the process would then be repeated. Only the female Bald Eagle was at Strawberry Island today. It was on the same branch during the entire study period. After observing three flights with sticks on February 10 and five flights with sticks on February 12, no stick carrying activity was observed February 15, 17, and 21. Today at Motor Island there were 29 Great Blue Herons. At Mid River Marina there 4 Double-crested Cormorants. All of these locations are near the south end of Grand Island (in the Niagara River) and viewing locations are accessible from River Road (called Niagara Street as you come off the Peace Bridge) in New York State. Best Wishes for Great Birding, Bill Watson Tonawanda, NY From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Feb 21 15:06:26 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.79]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0106863B48 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:06:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from unknown (HELO ?24.112.18.37?) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@24.112.18.37 with login) by smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Feb 2005 20:08:54 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.0.300 [266.2.0]); Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:11:51 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Doug Lockrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:11:51 -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]Great Grays and Barreds on Hall's Rd.--February 21 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:06:26 -0000
I reiterate that to "guarantee" viewing these wonderful owls you must be on Hall's Rd. between sunup and 7:30a.m., after which time they may retreat TO REST. If you can not get there in the early morn try dusk--hoo knows!! This Monday morning I witnessed much field-hunting by 3 Great Gray Owls, 1 female N.Harrier and 2 Red-tailed Hawks. The 2 Barred Owls were together at dawn; later one of them was seen in various trees along the north path up to 10a.m. Keep your eyes on the field between Hall's and Lake Ridge Rds., as well as in the trees on Lake Ridge. Hall's Rd. is in southwest Whitby, running south from Victoria St. Doug Lockrey, Whitby -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.2.0 - Release Date: 21/02/2005
