I had the privilege of leading about 20 OFO members on our annual trip
to the Minesing Swamp. We basically followed Dave Milsom's
self-guiding tour of the wetland available from the Ontario Field
Ornithologists website http://www.ofo.ca/ofo-docs/Minesing.pdf
We focused on three main sites
Grimsby, ON - Beamer Conservation Area
Grimsby, Ontario, Canada
Daily Raptor Counts: Apr 22, 2018
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SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total
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Black
The extensive sod farm east of Casselman has been hosting large flocks of
Snows in recent days. At mid morning there were three flocks totalling
35-40,000 and at 5:00 there were about 25,000. In both cases the flocks
were not too far from either the centre road to the landfill or the north
road
Looking at photos of this bird on ebird reports - it's really pale overall,
under-tail coverts are very pale gray, the extent of black at the base of the
under-tail is very limited and the outer web of the outermost tail feather is
white.
African Collared Dove or some variation of such [or
Nice day, nice people, nice observations! The Ontario Field Ornithologists could not have chosen a better day for its Ravens and raptors nestings sites excursion of to-day and make its 7 participants happy.
We started the day at Shirley's Bay where we observed a Bald Eagle sitting high on
About 40 OFO members and friends enjoyed a beautiful sunny day of early spring
birding in Algonquin Park yesterday. The temperature reached 14 degrees by late
afternoon, warmth not experienced here since late October. The final species
count was low at 38, but good for this spring. Only one
Gray Carlin and I had the Eurasian Wigeon at the north end of Cranberry Marsh.
Take 401 to Lakeridge go south to Bayly then east to halls rd
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