A few birds to add to David Britton message for to-day December 2nd. One Great-Blue Heron at Mud Lake (a few meters form the road at the place where people park to take the trail leading into the Britannia woods
5 or 6 Red-breasted Mergansers at Dick Bell Park One Red-winged Blackbird at Hilda Lane off Rifle Road at Shirleys Bay Over 400 Ring-necked Ducks and 2 Canvasback a couple 100 meters below the Deschesnes Rapids on the Québec side of the Ottawa River; lots of Scaups there also as well as Buffleheads and the 3 merganser species. Good birding Langis Sirois, Ottawa Please e-mail me in private for directions. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 2 20:07:21 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from bay0-omc1-s13.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc1-s13.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.85]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E191D638E0 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 2 Dec 2006 20:07:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from hotmail.com ([207.46.10.99]) by bay0-omc1-s13.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Sat, 2 Dec 2006 17:07:20 -0800 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 2 Dec 2006 17:07:20 -0800 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from 207.46.10.123 by by121fd.bay121.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:07:17 GMT X-Originating-IP: [72.142.125.2] X-Originating-Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "dave milsom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:07:17 +0000 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Dec 2006 01:07:20.0770 (UTC) FILETIME=[6231D220:01C71677] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Long Point-Dec. 2 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:07:21 -0000 Good "winter" birds seen today: Purple Sandpiper at end of pier at Turkey Point ; Turkey Vulture, Bald Eagle and Fox Sparrow at Long Point Provincial Pk.; Ruffed Grouse at Spooky Hollow near Normandale; 8 Pied-billed Grebes including 2 immatures at Port Rowan; 4 icterid species at Long Point; Swamp Sparrow at Big Creek on Conc. 1A. Due to the strong cold westerlies, land birding was poor. But a spectacle comparable to the late Spring migratory show took place on the cornfields, where over 100 Sandhill Cranes and thousands of Tundra Swans and Canada Geese fed. Conc. # 6 just north of Fisherville produced 4 Short-eared Owls at dusk. Dave Milsom Website: [1]http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] References 1. http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 2 20:13:19 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts40.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.97]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7983F638E0 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 2 Dec 2006 20:13:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from brucedb4u2q8ov ([64.230.81.33]) by tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.netESMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Sat, 2 Dec 2006 20:13:18 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Bruce Di Labio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ontario birds" <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 20:15:48 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Subject: [Ontbirds]Ottawa: Cackling Goose and Golden Eagle X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:13:20 -0000 Hi Everyone Birded around west of Ottawa today. Lots of good birding around the Moodie Drive ponds and Trail Road Landfill Site. With the recent snow cover there was large concentration of geese at the Moodie Drive Ponds with 1 Cackling, 1 Gr. White-fronted and 1 Snow (Blue morph) Goose . At the Trail Road Landfill Site there was a nice selection of gulls including 1 Lesser Black-backed, 2 Iceland, 3 Glaucous and 1500+ Great Black-backed Gulls. Along Huntmar Road near Richardson Side Road an immature Golden Eagle flew over and while an adult Bald Eagle was observed soaring over the village of Britannia. good birding Bruce Directions: From Ottawa take Hwy 417 west to Moodie Dr. and follow Moodie south approx 10 km. to Trail Road. Turn left on Trail Road. The landfill site is on your left. Remember, there is no access to the Trail Road Landfill Site. You have to bird from Trail Road. The Moodie Drive ponds are between Trail Road and Barnsdale Road on the east side along Moodie Drive. If you require any additional information please email me privately. Bruce Di Labio 400 Donald B. Munro Drive P.O.Box 538 Carp,Ontario,K0A 1L0 (613)839-4395 Home (613)715-2571 Cell Di Labio Birding Website Courses and Field Trips http://www3.sympatico.ca/bruce.dilabio/
