The Algonquin Visitor Centre will be open on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday this weekend, from 10 to 5. Birders should check the feeders there, and at the West Gate.
FINCHES: Pine Grosbeak: Up to 40 are at the Visitor Centre feeders daily, with a large number of adult males. Common Redpoll: A few, irregularly, are at the Visitor Centre feeder. No other finch species appear to be present in the Park. BOREAL SPECIES: Spruce Grouse: best places to look continue to be Spruce Bog Boardwalk, and Opeongo Road (near winter gate and 1 km north of there). Black-backed Woodpecker: check all conifers with bark removed. No specific locations have been reported this week. Gray Jay: reported at Spruce Bog Boardwalk, Opeongo Road, and Visitor Centre feeders. Boreal Chickadee: no reports; best locations to try are Spruce Bog Boardwalk, and Opeongo Road. Usually detected by hearing vocalizations. BIRDERS: Please let us know the date, number and location of birds you observe when you visit Algonquin Park. This information is stored in the Algonquin Visitor Centre database, and will help us to assist other birders here. Good birding. Ron Tozer Algonquin Park Naturalist (retired) Dwight, Ontario Directions: Algonquin Park is three hours north of Toronto, via Highways 400, 11 and 60. Follow the signs, which start in Toronto on Highway 400. >From Ottawa, take Highway 17 to Renfrew, then follow Highway 60 to the park. Kilometre markers along Highway 60 in the Park go from the West Gate (km 0) to the East Gate (km 56). Permits and information are available daily at both gates throughout the winter, including the Algonquin Information Guide showing locations discussed here. The Visitor Centre (km 43) is open on weekends (now 10 to 5 through February). Recent bird sightings and information, plus feeders, can be found there. Birders visiting during the week are welcome to contact staff for birding information via the service entrance (right end of the building as you face it from the parking lot). _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
