[Ontbirds] OFO Minesing Wetlands Field Trip Apr 22

2018-04-22 Thread Mark Cranford via ONTBIRDS
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

[Ontbirds] Grimsby, ON - Beamer Conservation Area (22 Apr 2018) 365 Raptors

2018-04-22 Thread reports--- via ONTBIRDS
Grimsby, ON - Beamer Conservation Area Grimsby, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Apr 22, 2018 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Black

[Ontbirds] Snow Geese east of Casselman

2018-04-22 Thread Brian Morin via ONTBIRDS
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

Re: [Ontbirds] Eurasian Collared Dove

2018-04-22 Thread JAMES HOLDSWORTH via ONTBIRDS
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

[Ontbirds] OFO Ottawa April 22 field trip

2018-04-22 Thread Langis Sirois via ONTBIRDS
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

[Ontbirds] 29th Annual Algonquin Park OFO trip: 21 April 2018

2018-04-22 Thread Ron Tozer via ONTBIRDS
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

[Ontbirds] Eurasian Wigeon Whitby

2018-04-22 Thread charmaine anderson via ONTBIRDS
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 Sent from my iPhone ___ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial