Saw a female Merlin at Britannia Woods in Ottawa this afternoon. It was sitting in a dead tree at the southwestern corner of Mud Lake about 3 pm. It stayed in the tree for at least 15 minutes while I took pictures and was still there when we left.
Directions from Queensway (Hwy 417): exit onto Pinecrest north, turn right at Richmond Road, cross Carling and take first left onto Poulin, continue to end of Poulin and left on Howe St, right on Britannia Rd, continue to end and right on Cassels St, continue a few hundred metres to entrance gate. Can walk on lake or in woods. Don Wigle Ottawa From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Feb 20 12:33:11 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (simmts6-qfe0.srvr.bell.ca [206.47.199.164]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 002A3634A2 for <[email protected]>; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:33:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from [10.0.1.3] ([70.53.118.150]) by simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:33:11 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) To: "Ont \"birds\"" <[email protected]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Doug McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:35:29 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Harlequin Duck at Presqu'ile Lighthouse X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:33:11 -0000 20 Feb 2007 Greetings all, Diane Whitman and I went to Presqu'ile this morning searching (unsuccessfully) for the Barrow's Goldeneye seen earlier today by Fred Helleiner, but came up with a female Harlequin as a consolation. It was swimming offshore from the Lighthouse, and was fairly close to shore. Nothing else unusual but there was a nice variety of waterfowl in the Bay and the Long-tailed Duck chorus was wonderful. Cheers, Doug McRae Doug McRae P.O. Box 3010 Brighton, Ontario Canada K0K 1H0 613-475-5014 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Directions: Take the Brighton exit from Hwy 401 and follow south through Brighton, then follow the signs for Presqu'ile. The Lighthouse is at the eastern tip of Presqu'ile.
