[Ontbirds] Algonquin Park Birding Report: 9 March 2017

2017-03-09 Thread Ron Tozer via ONTBIRDS
The Visitor Centre (km 43) will be open daily from 9 am to 5 pm with full services (exhibits, book store and restaurant) during March Break (March 11 to 19). There were few signs of new migration during the very cold temperatures that prevailed for most of the week. The first Red-winged

[Ontbirds] Presqu'ile Birding Report for Week Ending March 9, 2017.

2017-03-09 Thread Fred Helleiner via ONTBIRDS
Although little has changed in the bird life at Presqu'ile Provincial Park since last week, the volume of spring migrants is still impressive for this early date. There are dabbling ducks of several species just outside the Park, but identifying those within the Park is challenging because of

[Ontbirds] RBA Buffalo Bird Report 09 Mar 2017

2017-03-09 Thread David Suggs via ONTBIRDS
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/09/2017 * NYBU1703.09 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org --- ROSS'S GOOSE GR. WHITE-FR. GOOSE SANDHILL CRANE FOX

[Ontbirds] Ottawa/ Gatineau-recent sightings to March 9, 2017

2017-03-09 Thread Gregory Zbitnew via ONTBIRDS
Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club Ottawa/Gatineau (50 Km radius from Parliament Hill) E. Ontario, W. Quebec Compiler: Gregory Zbitnew at sighti...@ofnc.ca March 9, 2017 There were no real highlights this week. The weather was unseasonably cold most of the week, putting a screeching halt to the

[Ontbirds] Grimsby, ON - Beamer Conservation Area (09 Mar 2017) 24 Raptors

2017-03-09 Thread reports--- via ONTBIRDS
Grimsby, ON - Beamer Conservation Area Grimsby, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 09, 2017 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Black

[Ontbirds] Tundra Swans have re-appeared

2017-03-09 Thread Kevin Shackleton via ONTBIRDS
In the flooded field west of Bathurst St N of Hochreiter Road are 72 Tundra Swans. There is one Great Blue Heron in the small heronry on the Simcoe County side of the Holland River. There are about 14 nests best viewed from past the dike on the north side of the field with the Swans. Kevin

[Ontbirds] Tundra Swans in South Lake Simcoe

2017-03-09 Thread Paul Harpley via ONTBIRDS
Observed six (6) lingering Tundra swans on pondings in a corn field a kilometer south of south of the hamlet of Egypt at 9:30 a.m and 1:00 p.m. in the Town of Georgina on Wednesday (2017-03-08). They are in the cornfield on the east side of Park Road. Get to Egypt north up Highway 48 to