Mike Van den Tillaart and I had good luck with Snowy Owls today in the Ravenshoe Road area just southwest of Keswick. We found three different snowies between 8:30 - 9:30. The first of these was perched conspicuously on a TV antenna on the north side of Ravenshoe Road. It was a fairly heavily barred female/juvenile type, likely the one Keith Dunn first discovered a few weeks ago. The wooden telephone pole in front of the house is numbered 43082 - it is the first house you come to after the gap west of the house with green emergency sign #444. Turning south on Yonge Street, which is a short, unpopulated stretch of the main road with the same name, we soon found a second snowy. It was perched atop the 3rd pole west of the white trailer near the south end of Yonge. This bird was a much whiter one, an immature male, I would guess. Scoping the fields on the east side of Yonge, I discovered a third snowy, this one much darker, sitting about 400 or more metres east-northeast of the trailer just mentioned. We also had about 50 Snow Buntings along Ravenshoe Road. Ravenshoe runs east-west along the southern boundary of Keswick. Turn west from Leslie Street and follow Ravenshoe down the long hill, past the sports fields, and straight out into the agricultural flats. Ron Fleming, Newmarket _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdssetup.php ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdsguide.php
