A single Cave Swallow was feeding actively this morning and providing some good views to visitors to the south platform at Cranberry Marsh. When I left about 1100 am the bird was still being seen regularly.
Cranberry Marsh can be reached by going south on Salem Road to Bayly Street, then east on Bayly to Halls Road, then south on Halls Road. The south platform is a short distance north of Lake Ontario. Jerry Walsh Scarborough, Ontario From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Oct 30 15:25:36 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from ecserv7.uwaterloo.ca (ecserv7.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.50.127]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CAA764310 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:25:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from ecserv7.uwaterloo.ca (localhost.uwaterloo.ca [127.0.0.1]) by ecserv7.uwaterloo.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9UKW6dU004505 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:32:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by ecserv7.uwaterloo.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j9UKW69X004504 for [email protected]; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:32:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) X-Authentication-Warning: ecserv7.uwaterloo.ca: www set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f X-Received: from 65.93.35.153 ( [65.93.35.153])HTTP; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:32:06 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:32:06 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ontario birds <[email protected]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 / FreeBSD-4.6.2 X-Originating-IP: 65.93.35.153 Subject: [Ontbirds]Common Raven near Guelph X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:25:36 -0000 While out for a hike on the "Starkey Hill Trail", I was surprised today to hear the croaking of a Common Raven overhead. It called three or four times, circled around, and then flew out of sight (I could only see a very small amount of sky through the trees), vaguely NW. It gave another series of calls - at which point it was drowned out by a murder of crows cawing, which I believe may have driven it off; at any rate, when I did reach the open space at the top of Starkey Hill, I could find neither it nor the crows. So it may have left the area. However, directions to Starkey Hill follow (always a good place for an easy hike, and you never know what might turn up there...): >From hwy. 401 near Guelph, take exit 299 (# 46 to Aberfoyle) north approximately 9 km. to Arkell Road. Turn right at Arkell Road, drive approximately 5 km. east, through the hamlet of Arkell, to the trailhead. There is now a parking lot, on your right, with a GRCA sign. Take the trail up and veer right at the first fork to get up to the top of the Hill. Peter Coo Kitchener ---------------------------------------- This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Oct 30 15:48:31 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp102.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp102.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.80]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CD98643CC for <[email protected]>; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:48:31 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 50210 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2005 20:54:57 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:Message-ID:From:To:Subject:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Priority:X-MSMail-Priority:X-Mailer:X-MimeOLE; b=zUOt8vnixQ3k9RfaqKkbwM5w50JnBc98Dn2Updtc4Fi7186x6brxzIMBG2+R6BCTflMExGJUeeecqElsawgNMFeMvYhI9hkPChy7Ivrfjso76/gSxkTTAGgYGpQMOFCb7MG8Byp6Q1MPDaRCdEOndowmUMmwKccI1HJGIlwrYYo= ; Received: from unknown (HELO doug) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@72.141.175.148 with login) by smtp102.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Oct 2005 20:54:57 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Doug Lockrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:57:29 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Subject: [Ontbirds] CAVE SWALLOW attracts very many to Cranberry in Whitby--only 3 raptors--Oct.30 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:48:31 -0000 After several great days of raptor-viewing we were in for a slow migratory-hawk day some time --Sunday, Oct. 30 was it. However, as early as 8am the cars were arriving, and continued to so in droves--42 on Hall's Rd. at 1030--to bring their drivers and friends to see a CAVE SWALLOW(only one was seen). At 0830 the bird arrived, and it took very many eyes to finally agree that the throat and cheek were pale--this left no doubt. The bird made many excellent sortees, but never low enough to positively say that the forehead was dark. There are many flying insects. I will endeavour to keep you informed. The IBIS of yesterday was NOT seen today. Oh yes--hawks--an early morning light phase Rough-legged perched in a far tree before continuing on. Not until the 11th hour did we have another raptor--indeed, 2 Sharp-shinneds flew through--that was it!! After 70 days of raptor-viewing the Cranberry Marsh RW count is 6504-- TV-2920 , OS-122, BE-40; NH-89, SS-1216, CH-153, NG-9, RS-43, BW-222, RT- 996, RL-19, GE-19, AK-482, ML-27, PG-15,UNID.- 164 Hall's Rd. is in southwest Whitby. Doug Lockrey, coordinator CMRW www.pickeringnaturalists.org
