[Ontbirds] Simcoe County Birdathon

Simcoe county (west of Lakes Couchiching and Simcoe) offered some excellent birding for my team's annual Baillie Birdathon yesterday.  We usually do our birdathon within the boundaries of York Region but decided we'd give Simcoe a try this year and it was excellent.  We (Kevin Shackleton,

[Ontbirds] York-Simcoe Migrants

Due to some very inclement weather recently, last weekend was more productive than this one for finding new spring arrivals.  Last Saturday Kevin Shackleton reported 3 PARULA WARBLERS along Line 10 north of Bradford, prompting me to drive up there the next morning (it's 15 minutes

[Ontbirds] York Region/Simcoe County Migrants

As with many places in Ontario, spring migration has been gathering steam up here north of Toronto.  Monday was a red-letter day with three VERY interesting birds noted: one was a late SNOWY OWL photographed on a Keswick dock, another was the SNOWY EGRET reported by Doug McRae north of

[Ontbirds] OFO Tiny Marsh Trip (last Sunday)

Apologies for not posting sooner but cataract surgery on Monday (yes, I'm only 51) has made computer work a bit of an adventure this week.  Anyway, last Sunday at Tiny Marsh the OFO Trip I tried to lead was reduced to about 2.5 hours of rain-birding before we packed it in at lunch time. 

[Ontbirds] York Region - Eagles, Osprey, Tree Swallows

Prior to the arrival of this recent winter wallop, the first days of April provided local birders with some good weather and good birds.  On April 1st Craig Corcoran observed an early OSPREY along Ravenshoe Road in SW Keswick.  What is likely the same bird was reported on subsequent days

[Ontbirds] Bald Eagle, Gr. Yellowlegs - York Region

Yesterday at noon there were two adult Bald Eagles flying together at the west end of Ravenshoe Rd. in Keswick.  They could be the possible nesters Peter Wukasch has posted about.  They were not far from the active heronry situated north of Ravenshoe behind the orange farm buildings.   Also

[Ontbirds] York Region Field Trip

Eight members of the Richmond Hill Naturalists joined me for an enjoyable excursion in search of spring migrants this morning.  We started by hiking along the Oak Ridges Trail north of King City, heading east into the Seneca College property.  Highights there were Tundra Swan (4 whooping in

[Ontbirds] Snow Goose - Holland Landing

To add to the York region report posted yesterday, Kevin Shackleton observed a white adult Snow Goose on the south side of Hochreiter Road late yesterday afternoon.   Hochreiter Rd. runs west from Bathurst St. just northwest of Holland Landing (just past where the GGOW was a few weeks ago).