POSTED WITH PERMISSION OF THE ONTBIRDS COORDINATOR: Journey North has again started its award-winning science program for 2007. This internet-based science program is utilized by over 430,000 students in Canada and the United States.
Among the first projects is a survey of where American Robins are being seen this winter: http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/robin/Report.html. We are requesting your winter Robin sightings for January and February 2007. You are welcomed to register your email address at Journey North and report directly to the website, or send your sightings (date, name and e-mail address of observer, closest village or town or landmark such as a provincial park, number of robins seen and any other observations) directly to this writer. Later, we will be requesting your sightings of newly arrived migrants. PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR OBSERVATIONS TO ONTBIRDS. Thank you, in advance, for helping students monitor and track the arrival of spring as it arrives across North America. Generous birders in Quebec and even Manitoba have shared their recent sightings. Have a look at the various migration maps for the various species at: www.learner.org/jnorth. Thank you Don Davis Toronto, ON ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Feb 3 09:48:34 2007 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 7790E63492 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 09:48:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([69.157.26.102]) by tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 09:48:34 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 09:48:39 -0500 From: Dave Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ontbirds]Gray Partridge-Brantford Airport X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:48:35 -0000 Hi all, Just received a phone call from Rob Dobos who has a covey of 14 Gray Partridge off Robinson's Road next to the airport. Directions: Exit 403 at Rest Acres Road, go south to Robinson's Road, turn left (east), go east for a few hundred yards until you see a row of conifers running north/south on the south side of Robinson's Road not far from a red barn. The birds were not far out under these conifers. Good luck, Dave From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Feb 3 11:06:10 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp108.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp108.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.206]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E50D963897 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 11:06:08 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 54325 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2007 16:00:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@74.112.2.121 with plain) by smtp108.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Feb 2007 16:00:54 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: RLpkPzIVM1kK53RsCAbEZsWvJrNC52eVPws3sovSzd1wxpU6yMhijOq2Tu34Y6iUOA-- Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: Ontario Bird-list <[email protected]> From: Gene Denzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 11:00:53 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Subject: [Ontbirds]Brown Thrasher at LaSalle X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:06:11 -0000 Given the mild weather yesterday, and the threat of much stiffer climes for the next few days, we headed down to Stoney Creek. Starting with the foot of Fruitland Road, there was a scattering of ducks actively feeding, including Red-Breasted Mergansers, Bufflehead, Long-tails, Goldeneye, Greater Scaup, a few Redheads, and a single White-wing Scoter. Out on the lake were what appeared to be three non-adult Great Black-backed gulls. Further up the coast the pickings were slim at Millen Road and Van Wagner's beach. At WIndermere Basin there were some Ruddy Ducks, at least 4 Northern Shovelers, a few DC Cormorants, and a number of Lesser Scaup for new species on the day. Finally, at LaSalle Park, we had a number of Canvasback, all three Mergansers (including a single Hooded), at least 6 Coots, another single Red-headed Duck, and a great number of Trumpeter Swans mingling with Mutes (We were told that a recent count had 102 Trumpeters!) Hunting the trail along the shore, we found the Brown Thrasher and a WHite-throated Sparrow. We missed the Eastern Towhee, but it was seen by others while we were there. Nowhere did we see any floating ice, in February! Gene and Charlene Denzel 9 Idleswift Drive Thornhill, ON L4J 1K8 905-889-7888
