Early reports are starting to trickle in here at Rondeau, with lots of good birds being seen. On the Tulip Tree Trail today there were a total of 3 male Prothonotary Warblers putting on quite a show right off the trail. There was also a Connecticut Warbler heard singing from the same spot and a Piliated Woodpecker was on the ground right on the side of the trail as well. Spicebush Trail has had its fair share of activity today with all the expected Vireo species being seen, inculding Yellow-throated and White-eyed. Also seen on Spicebush were Blue-winged Warbler (pair), Cerulean, Orchard Oriole, Tufted Titmouse, Cape May, Northern Parula and many Canada Warblers. South Point Trail turned up Hooded Warbler, Mourning Warblers and White-eyed Vireo. In the past 48 hours there have been a total of 8 Gull species reported, notables being Little, Glaucous, Lesser Black-backed and Laughing Gull. A Peregrine Falcon was seen flying down Lakeshore Rd. late yesterday afternoon. The Friends of Rondeau Big day competition was held up until yesterday at 1pm congratulations goes out to the team of Steve Charbonneau and Mac McAlpine who despite less then perfect conditions managed to tally 152 species in the 24 hour period. In total just over 170 species were seen by all teams involved. Congratulations to all the other participating teams and hope to see everyone again next year. Good Birding, Ross Wood Directions: from Hi-way 401 take exit 101 (approx. 50 minutes west of London) follow signs south to park. Once in the park to get the the visitor center follow Rondeau rd. straight back until it ends(approx. 8km) then turn left on Gardiner, follow for 1.5km until you reach the VC on the right. ---------------------------------------- Upgrade your account today for increased storage; mail forwarding or POP enabled e-mail with automatic virus scanning. Visit our member benefits page at https://members.canada.com/benefits.aspx for more information. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon May 15 12:07:17 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (simmts6.bellnexxia.net [206.47.199.164]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A2663E39 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 15 May 2006 12:07:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sympatico.ca ([65.93.219.177]) by simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net ESMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Mon, 15 May 2006 12:07:01 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 12:06:08 -0400 From: Bob Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ontbirds <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ontbirds]Scarlet Tanagers in Wilket Creek Park X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 16:07:17 -0000
This morning at 11:15AM there were 2 male Scarlet Tanagers easily seen together in Wilket Creek Park in Toronto. Also in the same group if 3 trees, and within 15 minutes, were the following: Indigo Bunting Baltimore Oriole (female) Black-and-white Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler White-breasted Nuthatches (2) Hairy Woodpecker Directions: Enter via Edwards Gardens at Leslie and Lawrence, and walk south down the path into Wilket Creek Park. The birds were about half way down this path, just past the first path up to Leslie Street south of Lawrence. The trees were easily visible from the path, across the creek. There is a bench to sit on. Bob Ross Toronto
