Further to Mark Cranford's sightings for 12th March, there was also an Osprey perched in bay-side trees adjacent to the Crown Marsh, at the base of Long Point. The bird was visible (just) from the CWS viewing platform at the south end of the Causeway (Highway 59).
Furthermore, having been told by locals that the Tundra Swans had not yet arrived (just the odd dozen here and there) it was a wonderfull surprize to see skeins of them arriving from the south and south-east at just about the time that Mark mentioned in his earlier posting - by 4:30pm there were probably over 1500 in the fields around Port Royal (next town west of Port Rowan). Other sightings included 3 rough-legged hawks and 3 northern hariers in the vicinity of the Big Creek Marsh and a couple of coot with the 30+ canvasbacks (and three redhead) on Big Creek as it passes under Hwy 59 into the bay. Paul Prior From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mar 13 16:08:05 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from chico.mail.uwo.ca (chico.mail.uwo.ca [129.100.253.72]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08769638AD for <[email protected]>; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:08:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from spork.its.uwo.ca ([129.100.254.76]) by chico.mail.uwo.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 (built Apr 28 2004)) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for [email protected]; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:13:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from uwo.ca (pm1-004-48.async.uwo.ca [129.100.4.48])for <[email protected]>; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:13:16 -0500 Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:12:45 -0500 From: Jack Lorimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: UWO MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en]C-CCK-MCD (Windows NT 5.0; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en X-Spam-Score: -4.901 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 Subject: [Ontbirds]Townsend's Solitaire - Hungry Hollow X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:08:05 -0000 Today (Sunday, Mar. 13) we found the Townsend's Solitaire still present at about 1 p.m. along Fossil Rd at Hungry Hollow. It was active on either side of the red gate, about 1/2 km west of Sylvan Rd. For one excellent view, it was on a branch almost above the road/path just west of the gate; for another excellent view, it had flown just east of the gate, and made a picturesque perch against a background of Highbush Cranberry berries. Good birding, Jack & Shirley Lorimer London [EMAIL PROTECTED] Directions: West on Hwy 402 past Strathroy interchanges to Middlesex Rd 6, exit 56. Turn north to Middlesex Rd 12, Townsend's Line. Turn left, continue for about 3 roads to the signs Hungry Hollow and Sylvan Road. Turn right (north), cross the Ausable R. bridge, park just over the bridge (west side) - Fossil Rd, not maintained in winter. Walk down Fossil Rd to the red gate.
