Posted for Donald and Patricia Pye - email [EMAIL PROTECTED] May 1 2005 Little Blue Heron 1 The bird was found at WHEATLEY PROVINCIAL PARK at 4:00 P M A Red Headed Woodpecker was seen outside Pelee Wings store Leamington . Directions: From 401 Take Exit 63 No 2 Highway into Tilbury. At the light Queen St turn left south. This road will take you to Wheatley. At the light: Number 3 highway Turn left go east and follow the signs to the Park. At the Park go past the Park Office and follow the Paved Road to the Right and cross the new culvert and the Road will bend to the Left The bird was seen on the left opposite MIDDLE CREEK campground. Donald Pye Patricia Pye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wardsville
--- Mark Cranford ONTBIRDS Coordinator Mississauga, Ontario [EMAIL PROTECTED] 905 279 9576 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun May 1 21:51:08 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from web88005.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web88005.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.37.192]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7EE1F6448E for <[email protected]>; Sun, 1 May 2005 21:51:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [24.43.74.18] by web88005.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 01 May 2005 22:04:33 EDT Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 22:04:33 -0400 (EDT) From: RON FLEMING <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: OFO Bird Sightings <[email protected]>, Theo Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]York Region Birds X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 01:51:09 -0000 At the north end of Bathurst Street this weekend (including sightings from nearby Hochreiter Road) there were 10 GREATER and 3 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 18 DUNLIN and one SOLITARY SANDPIPER (thanks to Keith Dunn and Mary Carnahan, respectively, for alerting me to these latter two species). The Long-billed Dowitcher has not been seen since last Sunday, to my knowledge. There were also 6 CASPIAN TERNS and 2 BONAPARTE'S GULLS loafing in the flooded sod fields on the east side of Bathurst near the Holland River Marina. As I was watching these birds today, an OSPREY came down, picked up some nesting material, and flew northward, so I followed it in my scope. To my pleasant surprise it flew to a distant nest at the very north end of Bathurst. Another Osprey, presumably the female, was waiting there when it arrived with its contribution to the family property. When I drove to the northernmost point of Bathurst to get a better look at the Osprey nest, an AMERICAN BITTERN could be heard doing its distinctive call from the west side of the road, behind where the weekend fishermen do their thing at the shaggy little marina there. There were numerous ducks in the flooded fields on the north side of Hochreiter Road on Saturday including about 30 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 30 NORTHERN PINTAIL, and 6 NORTHERN SHOVELERS, but this afternoon, in much nicer weather, I could only find 2 Pintail among about 50 Mallards. There were 4 NORTHERN HARRIERS hunting in this area today (two males and two females). Earlier in the day I hiked in a wooded area on the outskirts of Newmarket near Bathurst and Green Lane. Interesting birds there included two YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, one BROAD-WINGED HAWK, one BROWN THRASHER, a very vocal WILD TURKEY doing courtship gobbles, several newly arrived FIELD SPARROWS, and several RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS. This is not a comprehensive report for the whole region, but it provides some indication of species occuring north of Toronto and south of Barrie at this point in the nesting and migration continuum. Ron Fleming, Newmarket DIRECTIONS: Newmarket is directly north of Toronto, halfway between that metropolis and Barrie, situated between the North-South lines of Hwys. 404 and 400. The section of Bathurst Street described above is actually on the western edge of Holland Landing and the eastern edge of Bradford. It is accessible by turning north from Yonge Street on the stretch of road that runs north out of Newmarket toward Bradford. There is a stoplight that indicates Bathurst Street north and Queensville. As soon as you turn at the light, Bathurst takes a quick jog left (west) then straightens out northward at the railway tracks. By driving straight north past Queensville Sdrd. and past the Albert's Marina Road (which is right across from the aforementioned Hochreiter Road), you will soon see the flooded fields on the east side of the road. There is a big orange-and-white garage building on the west side of the road that is a good "landmark". A scope definitely helps for identifying the sometimes distant birds. Hochreiter Road can be a bit dicey to drive on during bad weather conditions; it is a single lane and you can only turn around comfortably when you get to the house near the far end of it, which is over a km down the road. Still, it's usually worth the bumps and splashes.
