Hi Linda, Langis and everyone.
I'm the one that took the shot. Not very familiar with the area, and not
having a details map of all farm roads. Having a good memory though, I
looked on google map to get me the name of the roads where I saw the beauty.
This was taken on Feb 27 (Monday), at 14h00 or so. Followed the main road
which is Dundela, and there's a little side road at an angle which I believe
is Ridge rd. There's a lot of farms in the area. This where I took the shot.
The bird was standing perched on one of the wooden post which separates 2
farms (I believe). Stopped the vehicule, stayed in it and move on the
drivers seat to take the shot with the window down. Then it took off going
in a direction where my view was obstucted by the car roof, etc... It landed
quite far away. I'm not good at distance, but over 1000 feet away and was
resting on another wooden post. I waited for some time, guess the bird
didn't like a red vehicule waiting like this. So I left the spot.
My initial idea was to find some Snowy Owl, I carried on in the sector
looking for more. No luck that time.
Cheers
Eric Cote
----- Original Message -----
From: "Langis Sirois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Linda Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Ontbirds]Barn Owl near 401 and HY 16
Hi Linda.
Do you have more details about this sighting. In his gallery where the
photo is posted, the author
does not say when he took it. How do you know it was in the last couple of
days?
By the way, the author of this photo appears to be particularly gifted for
finding rare raptors.
Last Spring, a photo of an Harris Hawk that he had allegedly photographed in
Southern Québec was
posted on the Québec forum Ornitho-QC.
Thanks for any clarification you can provide.
Langis Sirois, Ottawa
Langis Sirois, Ottawa
Linda Price wrote:
A photo was taken of a barn owl -
http://www.pbase.com/drhangar/image/56622880
in the last couple of days. The photographer has not reported it but
did include directions and a map in the link above.
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