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__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Dec 13 14:52:53 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts43.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.110]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A592638D2 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:52:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from brucedb4u2q8ov ([70.50.100.28]) by tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.netESMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:52:47 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Bruce Di Labio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ontario birds" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:52:54 -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]Amherst Island Birding X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:52:53 -0000 Hi Everyone Spent yesterday birding both Wolfe and Amherst Islands. It was a beautiful day weather wise and on Wolfe had a few Red-tailed & Rough-legged Hawks and a couple of American Kestrel. The highlight was 120+ Tundra Swans mainly off the south shore. Did a quick visit to the DuPont Plant area and Elevator Bay and there was a large concentration of ducks with 1500+ Greater Scaup, 64 Redhead and 1 Canvasback. Other species of note included 1 Pied-billed Grebe, 2 Double-crested Cormorant and 19 American Coot. Amherst Island had a small number of hawks including 2 Red-tailed, 3 Rough-legged, 8 Northern Harrier and 1 American Kestrel along various roads. The "Owl Woods" had 25+ roosting Long-eared Owls but no N. Saw-whets were located. One Snowy Owl was observed at the east end (KFN property) and a late Brant was off the gravel bar. At dusk a total of 11 Short-eared Owls were observed hunting and vocalizing over the fields south of Stella. good birding Bruce Directions: Located 18 km. west of Kingston. Exit off Hwy. 401 at exit 593 (County Rd. 4, Camden East) and drive south to the very end (Millhaven). Turn right on Hwy. 33 and drive 100 metres until you see the sign for the Amherst Island ferry. The ferry (20 minute trip) leaves the mainland on the half hour and leaves the island on the hour. Cost is $6.00 Canadian round trip. There are no gas stations on the island. There are restrooms on the ferry, and at the island ferry dock. The East End K.F.N. property is at the easternmost part of the island on the east side of the Lower Forty Foot Road. To reach the Owl Woods, turn left (east) at the four-way stop sign by the general store and drive 3.4 km along Front Rd. to the (seasonal) Marshall Forty-Foot Rd. Marshall Forty-Foot Rd. is across the road from house #2320. Drive along Marshall Rd. to the mid-way point, where there is an "S" in the road (1.2 km, look for the K.F.N. kiosk which had owl observing ethics). Park in the gravel lane or off the road edge. ( directions courtesy of Bruce Ripley) 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/
