[Ontbirds] Bird Studies Canada is looking for Short-eared Owl reports -- any time this winter, anywhere in Canada

Dear Birders Bird Studies Canada Ontario Region is interested in identifying Short-eared Owl locations across Canada and, in particular, Ontario. BSC has developed a simple online reporting tool and we ask anyone who sees Short-eared Owls to report them using the Short-eared Owl Observation

[Ontbirds] Red Bellied Woodpecker Carleton Place []

Around 10 am at my house in Carleton Place (50 km west of Ottawa) (Herriott St area) my wife spotted our first ever Red Bellied Woodpecker in the backyard! He was soon gone, headed to warmer climes. Herriott St is just off of the main st of CP (Bridge St) which is the second set of lights

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I saw about 7 Red-Tailed Hawks in the Vars area along the 417 yesterday. ___ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS visit

[Ontbirds] Ottawa Snowy Owl

On Britannia breakwater, visible right now from Québec side of Deschênes Rapids. It is a dark bird, visible when it moves the head and reveals pale facial disk. Need powerful scope to appreciate. Good birding! Justin Sent from my iPhone ___

Re: [Ontbirds] Ottawa Snowy Owl

Really good view from the end of Jamieson Street in Ottawa, right now. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 2, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Justin Peter jbp...@yahoo.ca wrote: On Britannia breakwater, visible right now from Québec side of Deschênes Rapids. It is a dark bird, visible when it moves the head and

[Ontbirds] Ottawa Snowy Owl

The snowy owl is still there on the same rocks as last Saturday. This time it is much higher up and is easily seen from Britannia Pier/Lakeside Gardes area. The owl looks alert and is looking around. 3:37om From: jbp...@yahoo.ca Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 14:29:44 -0500 To: jbp...@yahoo.ca

[Ontbirds] Northern Goshawk - Stratford

Harald Scholz and I saw an immature Northern Goshawk this afternoon in central Stratford. The bird was first seen chasing pigeons over the city. It flew around displaying its long barred tail and finely streaked breast. It then landed on the Court House and sat on top of one of the

[Ontbirds] Golden Eagle, Bowmanville, Snowy Owl, Whitby

Hi All As of 12 noon today the snowy owl at Whitby Harbour was still present on the rock wall on the south west part of the harbour, near the small green and white lighthouse looking thing(not the red and white lighthouse at the lake end of the groin) Also at 3:15 today a Golden Eagle

[Ontbirds] Ross's,white-fronted geese Simcoe

At a small lake east of Simcoe today @ 4;30 pm were 2 white-fronts one Ross's among about 75 Canadas. Directions: From #24 #3 hwys in Simcoe go north to the 14th concession ( about half a km ) turn right or east .Then travel approx.7 km looking for a lake on your right. If you come to a

Re: [Ontbirds] Snowy owl. Whitby.

the Snowy owl was still being seeing tonight at dusk at the Whitby Harbor Craig McLauchlan - Original Message - From: c...@sympatico.ca To: Ont birds birdalert@ontbirds.ca Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 10:10 AM Subject: [Ontbirds] Snowy owl. Whitby. Bev and I are looking at the

[Ontbirds] North American Birds Fall sightings

This posting has been approved by the Ontbirds coordinator. The magazine North American Birds is published four times a year by the American Birding Association and contains significant seasonal sightings and summaries from across the continent for all regions of North America, as well as Mexico,

[Ontbirds] Ross's Goose Courtice Dec.2

Posting on behalf of Dennis Barry who is offline at present. Garney Gunn found a Ross's Goose in a stormwater pond with Canada Geese at the SE corner of Courtice Rd. and Nash Rd. in Courtice, east of Oshawa, this afternoon, Friday December 2. Dennis saw it there about 4.30pm, when it flew with

[Ontbirds] Niagara River: Razorbill, Harlequin Duck, Black Vulture, Franklin's Gull

Hi Everyone Had a great afternoon birding along the Niagara River between 1:30 and 4:30pm.. The 2 female Harlequin Duck were present at the control gates above the falls at 1:30pm. The first winter Franklin's Gull was showing well at Sir Adam Beck and 5 Black Vultures were soaring over the

[Ontbirds] Kingston area birds to Dec. 2, 2011

Most of the recent reports are of the large concentrations of waterfowl in the city. The Greater Cataraqui River has its usual large number of puddle ducks, divers and coots but 4 Mute and 46 Tundra Swans was a bit unexpected at that location. In Elevator Bay both swans can be found but there

[Ontbirds] Wood duck near Bradford, Ont.

Today I spotted a beautiful (are there any that aren't?!) male wood Duck swimming in the canal along Canal Road east of Hwy. 400 exit before you get to Tornado Rd. This is only noteworthy because of the late date - my only winter record of this species in this area. Peter Wukasch Go north on

[Ontbirds] Hamilton Naturalists Club Birding Report - Friday, December 2nd, 2011

NORTHERN PARULA Tundra Swan American Wigeon Red-throated Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Osprey Northern Goshawk Bonaparte's Gull Northern Shrike Common Raven Eastern Bluebird Yellow-rumped Warbler Lapland Longspur Eastern Meadowlark Brown-headed Cowbird