Howdy, Y'all! I've been inspired by the Nova Scotia , Newfoundland, and Michigan Birding Llists to start a new forum for bird discussion in Ontario. It's called OntBirdChat, and is part of the Google Forums.
Visit: http://groups.google.com/group/ontbirdchat Why OntBirdChat? Well, we all know that Ontbirds is for posting sightings of rare birds, and that's about it. Well what if i want to talk about the Ivory Gull with you all? What if there is an interesting sighting, not necessarily rare, but should be shared with everyone? How do we get connected? This is it! Stories, random non-rare sightings, jokes, links, etc. This is where it can all go. Here's the details: 1) You DO NOT need a gmail email address to join. Just use your existing email address to create a google account. 2) You don't have to get all the emails! You can change your settings so that you get NO email, or ALL the email. You may choose to just browse the forum, and contribute where you like. But anything you post will go out to everyone who subscribes to the emails. 3) You can unsubscribe any time, no salesperson will visit you. 4) The only rule: keep it P.G. Help promote the forum! If you have a website, visit this page: http://groups.google.com/group/ontbirdchat/manage_promote , and add one of the boxes to your site. Spread the word! I hope everyone agrees that this will be a useful tool. The folks I discussed it with certainly were excited! Any questions, email me! GOOD BIRDING, and let's hear about it! -Matt Baker Windsor, Ontario via Lawrencetown, N.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 902-584-7299 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jan 11 10:59:04 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from mail.ghc.on.ca (unknown [64.25.165.211]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD2A63A08 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:59:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from DMZ-MTA by mail.ghc.on.ca with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:51:02 -0500 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 7.0 Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:01:36 -0500 From: "Kirk Zufelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [Ontbirds]Ivory Gull-yes Jan 10 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:59:04 -0000 Birders: I wanted to give some additional information on the Ivory Gull from yesterday-Tues Jan -10. We arrived from the Sault at 0745 and along with many other birder's scoured Hillman Marsh for the entire day. The numbers of gulls was astounding and 9 species were observed by many for the day. Between 1500-1600 many of the hard working birder's left in disappointment as the gull could not be relocated. We were over at the first bridge at 1615 planning to do the same -we had already packed up our scopes, when a local birder (who we thank profusely) drove by and said the bird had just been relocated on the other side of the marsh. We madly drove to the next road to the south- the one that is closed. We drove most of the way to were numerous cars were parked. The bird was feeding just on the other side of the dike at the shore edge. It was within about 50 ft. and you had to get well up on the dike and look down before you could see it. The bird remained in that spot pecking in the mud not moving more than 20-30 yards until about 1745. At that time it flew up and headed north towards the first bridge. It made a large circle and then landed about a 75 yards further out in the marsh (from were we had been observing it originally),on the south side of the point with the blind -3/4 of the way to the tip. It hunkered down at the edge of the cat tails looking like it was going to spend the night. At last light it was still in this position.We left happy and arrived back in the Sault around 0130. I would like to thank all the local birders who despite having seen the bird spent a very considerable amount of time and energy searching and helping out all the visiting birders. Kirk Zufelt _______________________________________________ Kirk Zufelt Sault Ste. Marie,Ontario Canada
