PS - Celine and Brian Gillett jogged my memory about some flocks of WILD TURKEYS just northeast of Holland Landing yesterday. They (the turkeys, not the Gilletts) were out in the fields east of the 2nd Concession (which is the northern extension of Main Street out of Newmarket) about 1.5 kms north of Queensville Sdrd. There were 28 birds in two different flocks. On Friday a dozen more were feeding in a field on the south side of Hwy. 9 just east of the Cardinal golf course.
Murray Shields had a very late BELTED KINGFISHER yesterday afternoon while driving along Doane Rd. just east of Kennedy Rd. There is a small creek there and the bird on the hydro wires above it. A nice winter bird up here! Earlier this week Rob and Angie Mueller had a first-year WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW keeping company with a flock of American Tree Sparrows in the Holland Marsh vegetable fields just east of Hwy. 400 and north of Hwy. 9. This species has wintered in "the marsh" for the last 4 - 5 years - never in big numbers but enough to catch the eye of birders who keep their binoculars active through the whole year. One of these young birds has been having a cushy time of it by visiting the well-stocked feeders across from the Ansnorveldt church and school on Dufferin Street (just north of the canal bridge about 4 kms north of Hwy. 9). Ron Fleming, Newmarket _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
