Hi all: ?Latest update on the Leslie Spit Hawk Owl. I saw it at 1 pm in shrubs and it put on quite a show flying from shrubs to telephone wires, to top of cottonwood trees and poplars (& being attacked by a Kestrel). All very close to the?Yacht Club entrance. ? It was still on the telephone wires at 4 pm, when I left the spit.
? Since nobody has reported it, there was a Boreal Owl as well. It was 300 m past "the bridge link" ( where bikers are supposed to dismount) on the south side of main spit road, just past a reddish snow fence, in a spruce sapling ( one of 3 evegreen trees) Other birds of note: ?Pine Siskins ( two flocks of 70 birds); American Pipit; White-throated, Song, & American Tree Sparrows; DE Juncos, Common Loon(1), Hooded Mergansers ( 25), Red-breasted & Common Mergansers, Am. Goldeneye ( 50+), Buffleheads, Long-tailed Ducks ( 100's),Greater Scaups ( 100's), and few other more common species? To reach the Leslie St. Spit take the Gardiner East to Leslie St. turn South (right) to Unwin Ave,right again?to the Eastern Channel (the bridge across is out) then, at the broken bridge, turn left along the road to the yacht club. Park and walk toward the Yacht Club entrance for the Hawk Owl.? Cheers? Luke Fazio _______________________________________________ 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
