Throughout January Hall's Rd. and area in southwest Whitby,ON, has been home to a number of hawks and owls, BUT one has to be there at the "right" time, it varying muchly. Between 9 and 10am today I had a great look at an adult ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK perched in a large oak tree on the west side of LakeRidge Rd., a third of the way towards the lake from Victoria St. Two RED-TAILED HAWKS were hovering overhead, and a NORTHERN HARRIER was sighted from the Hall's Rd. side. The Sobey's Warehouse fields often harbour Red-tailed Hawks and American Kestrels.
For 5 or more weeks a BARRED OWL has been seen along Hall's Rd., usually in the early morning hours at the north pathway entrance. Many photos have been taken, prior to the bird deciding to fly off into the woods. Today (Jan.27) it was seen at 1:30pm much further north. Exit the 401 at Salem Rd. (in Ajax), south to Bayly, east to LakeRidge; one block further is Hall's Rd., and 2km. further east is the Sobey Warehouse area, on the north side of Victoria (eastward extension of Bayly). James Kamstra is the guest speaker at the Pickering Naturalists meeting on Thursday, Feb. 1--7:30pm--in the O'Brien Room, on the east side of the Pickering Recreational Centre. His topic--Biodiversity from Rio to the Pantanal. Doug Lockrey, Whitby From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jan 27 17:40:51 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp.wincom.net (smtp.wincom.net [209.216.129.21]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58ED36346F for <[email protected]>; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:40:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.224] (unverified [207.112.68.36]) by wincom.net (WINCOM Internet Mail Service) with ESMTP id 56131734 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:40:52 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: [email protected] From: Paul Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:41:01 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Authenticated-User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Vpipe: restarted% started av_avast (av_avast) X-IP-stats: Notspam Incoming Last 0, First 12, inD, out=0, spam=0 Known=true X-External-IP: 207.112.68.36 Subject: [Ontbirds]Detroit River Brewer's Duck, large number of herons X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:40:51 -0000 A male Brewer's Duck (MallardXGadwall) was present this morning at Lakeview Marina in Windsor. The bird was with a large flock of Mallards at the mouth of Little River. The marina affords a good view of Peche Island where 27 Great Blue Herons and 4 Ruddy Ducks were visible along the shoreline. There were small pockets of open water at the mouth of the Thames River at Lighthouse Cove this afternoon. In addition to hundreds of waterfowl there were 28 Great Blue Herons, 8 Double-crested Cormorants, 3 Pied-billed Grebes, 3 Bald Eagles, 1 adult Glaucous Gull and 1 first winter Lesser Black-backed Gull. Lakeview Marina is located in Windsor along Riverside Drive at Riverdale. Lighthouse Cove is about 6 km NNW of Tilbury on County Rd. 39 (reached off County Road 42). I'll post a photo of the Brewer's Duck to the OFO photo page at www.ofo.ca/photos/ Paul Pratt Ojibway Nature Centre Windsor, ON www.ojibway.ca
