We found it! The Snowy Owl seen by Claude and Nina Radley was located today on the west side of Colonel Talbot Road at 12:15 p.m.
Directions: from London drive south on Colonel Talbot Road to Littlewood Drive, the traffic lights just before the 401. Turn right on Littlewood Drive and drive .9 km (just past the Leasco building on the north) and the bird was located on the south side of the road, about 75 - 100 yds. of the road on the dirt ridge. from 401, take Colonel Talbot Road North to Littlewood Drive, first Lights, turn left and then follow instructions as above. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Feb 4 13:06:45 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from web88002.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web88002.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.37.189]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0EB286482B for <[email protected]>; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 13:06:45 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 77945 invoked by uid 60001); 4 Feb 2006 18:06:45 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=j2tlY0hEqD3geHslbZ7ckurgPoreUpLJKa7CdeyI6uJRcwnHV3HC/vU0OfTT9tXoHlWf6CveL+A3SuxDY6r9XBE7t9kJSkJWBdvi2fV37zExA6OB1ngzblJiMW26xSycOh9TsBaaTC0I1GR8P+1pz8IxmXspAtUrrUNBFFh+s1M ; Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [70.28.198.92] by web88002.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 13:06:45 EST Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 13:06:45 -0500 (EST) From: RON FLEMING <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: OFO Bird Sightings <[email protected]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Red-bellied Woodpecker, Snowy Owls - Newmarket area X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:06:45 -0000 As consolation for losing them on a field trip last Saturday afternoon, I circumnavigated the south end of the Holland Marsh with Gordon & Elizabeth Morton and Phyllis Graydon this morning. Notable birds in this area just west of Newmarket were five Snowy Owls, two American Kesrels, and numerous Horned Larks . On my way back home at 11:40 a.m., I finally chanced upon one of the local Red-bellied Woodpeckers I have been unsuccessfully chasing all winter long. It was right where Margaret and John Catto reported it back on Jan. 14th: working the trees along Miller Sdrd. about 500 m east of Dufferin St. Ron Fleming, Newmarket Directions: Two Snowies were observed on the north side of Woodchopper's Lane; one of them - an adult male - was sitting on a hydro pole straight north of house #950 (and probably best seen from the western terminus of Edward Ave.) while the other was perched on the furthest of 8 wooden posts that run north from Woodchopper's Lane just just east of house #450 (stop at the "Maximum 60 km/h" sign and scope the pole tops). The Snowy offering best views continues to be the one at the corner of Keele and King Street. This heavily barred bird is most often seen by looking at the post tops straight north along the Keele road extension (Keele is briefly interrupted by the Holland River just north of King St.), but this morning it was sitting right on top of the TV antenna at the last house on Keele (west side). Another Snowy was about 500 m further east along King, sitting directly north of house #596 on top of a little shed by the riverside. Another Snowy was visible from the northern arc of Canal Road; we saw it sitting on a long greenhouse by scoping southeast from Canal road about 1 km east of Jonkman's Corners (where Canal meets Simcoe Rd.). I believe this is the same bird that often perches way up atop the metal hydro towers that run N-S through the farm fields; it can sometimes be seen by looking west from nearby Dufferin Street. Miller Sdrd. runs east from Dufferin, about 2 kms north of Hwy. 9, but south of the other areas described above. This section of the Holland Marsh is most easily reached by taking Hwy. 400 north from Toronto. Exit east at Hwy. 9/Davis Drive and travel toward Newmarket. Take Keele or Dufferin north and you will soon find the roads indicated above.
