Today was by far the biggest Hawk movement in Simcoe County thus far.from Lefroy to Alliston I counted 42 Raptors. 34 of which were Red-tails,1 Kestrel,1 Red-shouldered,and 6 Turkey Vultures! The largest amount came while pumping Gas at the Pioneer at Hwy 89 and Tottenham Rd in Alliston. No fewer than 18 Red-tails flew by in the time it took to fill my Tank.I wish I could have booked off work then and there. Simcoe County is north of the GTA ,Basically from Hwy 9 to Georgian Bay,Lake Simcoe to Airport Road.
Cheer's Garth From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 28 10:24:08 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from mail.ghc.on.ca (mail.ghc.on.ca [64.25.165.217]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD969638AB for <[email protected]>; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:24:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from GHC-MTA-MTA by mail.ghc.on.ca with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:24:08 -0400 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 7.0.1 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:23:33 -0400 From: "Kirk Zufelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Ross's Geese, Greater White-fronted Geese- St. Joseph's Island, Algoma X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:24:08 -0000 Birders: Following up on Bob Knudsen's report Ken Mckilwrick and myself went out to St. Joseph's Island and had 35 + Greater White-fronted Geese in the field to the east on Huron Line between I and K lines. There were also 3 white geese out about 250 yds which I thought were likely Snow Geese but with the shimmer and distance it was impossible to be definitive. This AM Dave Bell and myself headed back out to the same spot and the viewing conditions were excellent and the geese were much closer. The 3 "white" geese were seen very well and are definitely - Ross's Geese- small size, perfectly rounded head, short stubby bill with vertical bill base, absolutely no grinning patch. We counted 27 Greater White-fronted Geese present as well. Dave managed some reasonable digiscoped pictures which are diagnostic. Kirk Zufelt Kirk Zufelt Sault Ste. Marie,Ontario Canada From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 28 11:04:29 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 423B7638AB for <[email protected]>; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:04:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([64.228.37.164]) 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]>; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:04:28 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:04:22 -0500 From: Nathalie Rockhill <[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]Carden Bluebird, Meadowlarks return X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:04:30 -0000 Yesterday afternoon a quick trip along Shrike Road revealed one Bluebird north of McNamee Road, numerous Eastern Meadowlarks singing from several fields, lots of Killdeer noisily circling and running through the greening grass, and flocks of American Robins. One Turkey Vulture tilted overhead; a Red-tailed Hawk surveyed the possibilities from a hydro tower just north of Talbot River Road; and a possible Red-Shouldered Hawk circled high and continued north. A Hooded Merganser was in the Talbot River pool west of the road. An American Kestrel flew in to perch on a tree branch on McNamee near Kawartha Lakes 35. A pair of Common Mergansers swam in the Grass Creek near the bridge on 35 just north of Talbot River Road. And Song Sparrows sang in several spots along Talbot R. Rd. Hard to keep up with all the action! The Carden IBA is about 150 km. from downtown Toronto. Take HIghway 48 to Kirkfield, and at the 4 corners turn north on Kawartha Lakes 6 (an IBA sign directs you). Shrike Road is reached by driving under the Kirkfield Lift Lock and immediately turning right (east) onto Talbot River Road. Shrike Road is the first road you come to. Drive north to the end, to find a wonderful array of grassland birds, as well as others. (Note: Check out www.cardenguide.com/Festival for information about the June 15-17 Carden Nature Festival). .
