Hi all. The Cattle Egret found yesterday by Marc Denis at his farm at 545 route 500, North of Casselman, and reported on ontbirds by Jacques Bouvier, was present to-day at least until 3:30PM. When he first checked at 7:30 this morning, Mr. Denis did not see the bird, but he found it later feeding around his horses in a field behind his house. The area were it was to-day was not visible from the road nor from Mr Denis house. I walked through the field to get to the area, with Mr. Denis permission.
When I arrived around 2:00PM, the bird was resting near the horses. It flew to the lagoons after a few minutes and perched on a bush tree between the 2 pounds. It later returned to feed among the horses. «At first, the horses were chasing it away, kind of playing a game with the bird, said Mr. Denis, then they appeared to accept its presence.» At about 3:00PM I went to the lagoons. I had a better view from there because the path around the ponds is on higher ground than the field in which the horses and the birds were. The field is between the lagoons and Mr. Denis home. As was said before, Mr. Denis is birder-friendly and will allow people on to his farm until the morning of Saturday Oct. 7th. If you go, you might want to check if you can see the bird from the lagoons first; since the bird might be roosting and resting in the bush trees between the two ponds, approach with care to avoid frightening it away. There might be hunters there during the weekend, so try to get there before they scare the bird away... if it remains until then. With mild weather and apparently insects around, it might still be there for a few days. Good luck. Langis Sirois, Ottawa Casselman sewage lagoons: directions courtesy of Neily World http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sewage7.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Oct 4 21:52:51 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from web33301.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33301.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.116]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E780638D8 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 21:52:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 15915 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Oct 2006 01:52:52 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=P2AQIe8iFfsBeBg5nbRSvF9FrmsizdSuXN9dKzdah50w3oaMzk1Oc3gDWaHqZU5HSnIfdrnOP0iCgMriGn3DEOWtZpYjS5DQ/hOUu6VLWbAmEJE+0QNY11U5HYVvRS5H9f3p36oXBheCPD7JHLAsfE4n+hNIfNnFWZyP9lwb4oE ; Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [70.48.208.2] by web33301.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:52:52 PDT Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 18:52:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Horvath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [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] Gadwall X American Wigeon Sturgeon Creek, Leamington Ontario X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:52:52 -0000 While birding the Pelee Area today with my brother Randy, i discovered an interesting duck in Sturgeon Creek behind the Days Inn which after careful evaluation my brother decided it had to be a Gadwall x American Wigeon.It stood out like a sore thumb due to the fact it had a very big bright white speculum and was swimming around with a group of about 10 American Wigeon Sturgeon Creek runs behind the Days Inn which is in Leamington Ontario on Point Pelee Drive Robert Horvath [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Oct 4 23:41:56 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from mail47.e.nsc.no (mail47.e.nsc.no [193.213.115.47]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044EC63A7E for <[email protected]>; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 23:41:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from chapman (ti400720a081-14434.bb.online.no [85.164.248.98]) by mail47.nsc.no (8.13.8/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k953fq6P008116 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 05:41:52 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Eddie Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 05:42:04 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Thread-Index: AcboMDlKwidXuysHS66m4/5r5nJeLg=X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Subject: [Ontbirds] Gadwall X American Wigeon Sturgeon Creek, Leamington Ontario X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:41:56 -0000 Any chance of someone taking a picture.? I saw a very strange duck a few years ago that I put down to Eurasian Wigeon x Gadwall. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me at the time Eddie Chapman, Voss, Norway. The Norwegian Birding Route: Today's Photo: Great Northern Diver http://norwegian-birding-route.com/index-filer/Page345.htm
