The Razorbill is still to be found at the mouth of the Niagara River. I arrived at Fort Mississauga at 2:30 and by 2:40 it swam up from the river into the lake. It spent about 12 minutes preening (or at least rearranging its feathers) as it slowly floated with the current farther out into the lake. It then dove and disappeared for several minutes before reappearing closer to the American fortifications. I last saw it around 3:15. Here are directions as posted by Chris Escott.
>From the golf course clubhouse (at the south end of the golf course, nearest the parkette) drive north beside the first fairway until the road turns left, and park there. Look for the signboard and gravel path leading to Fort Mississauga (the red brick boxy structure at the far side of the golf course, where the river enters the lake). Before reaching the fort, walk over the grass to the right, behind the green for the first hole, and look for a gravel ramp down the wooded slope to the walking trail at the water's edge. Half way along this trail (about 50 m) is a wide gap in the trees where you get a great view of the green buoy (if you get to the pink wing-backed chair another 50 m further on, you've gone too far!). [I take the pink chair on faith... I only went to the square concrete embankment.]Greg StuartToronto, Ontario _________________________________________________________________ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6dFrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Nov 27 22:40:53 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B3C639C8 for <[email protected]>; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:40:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from Marcelap ([70.80.115.2]) by VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for [email protected]; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:40:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:40:52 -0500 From: Marcel Gahbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1250 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Thread-index: AccSnwB/7BWl/Q2uSKWkllPWWmxNaA=Subject: [Ontbirds]Snow Geese east of Casselman X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:40:53 -0000 Ontbirders, Following up on Brian Morin's post the other day regarding a large flock of Snow Geese along the eastern end of Hwy 401, around noon today I observed a flock of approximately 3000 - 4000 in the fields south of Hwy 417 at the km 61 marker, east of Casselman. Less remarkable, but still noteworthy considering the date, were over 1500 Canada Geese in the fields between Fournier and Alfred. Raptors seemed scarce, with only 2 Rough-legged Hawks spotted despite a fair bit of scanning along both the main highway and the back roads between Alfred and Casselman. Directions: km 61 is about half an hour east of Ottawa on Hwy 417 ... there is a sideroad visible from the highway that presumably is accessible by getting off at exit 58 and heading west, or exit 66 and heading east, and would allow for closer (and safer) viewing of the birds for any interested in checking the flock out in more detail. Good birding, Marcel Gahbauer Montreal [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.17/553 - Release Date: 11/27/2006
