I drove the rectangular loop of McNamee Rd., Wylie Rd., Alvar Rd., and Victoria Rd., between 7 and 9 am this morning. Alvar Rd is flooded at the swamp but you can drive through if you have water clearance of one foot. Their was a loggerhead shrike on the territory occupied last year on McNamee Rd between Victoria Rd and Shrike Rd on the south side just west of the now closed Horncastle Rd. The sounds on Wylie Rd were very impressive: winnowing snipe, eastern meadowlarks, drumming yellow-bellied sapsuckers and ruffed grouse, calling turkeys and more. One could 'hardly hear' the numerous bluebirds and sparrows. A few new arrivals were good to detect. They included: savannah and vesper sparrows, eastern towhee and a single upland sandpiper.
See you at the Carden Festival! Bob Hartley _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
