Hi All! The Pyrrhuloxia was seen again this morning just before 9 am for a very brief visit and then again at 9:05 for a little longer one, much to the delight of the 30 well chilled birders. It was not raining in Eagle when we left but we did encounter some rain on the 401 back to London.
Special thanks to Joanne for her hospitality. Good birding, Ellen Smout London, Ont. Directions (as per Alan Wormington): >From the 401 exit at Interchange #137 and drive south to West Lorne. Keep >going straight (south) to the town of Eagle on Hwy. 3. Keep going south towards Lake Erie where you will see a tall radio tower on the left. Just a bit further there is a small woodlot on the right with one house (911 house number 9037). At the back of this house are the feeders. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 30 10:40:07 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts20.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.74]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6D819F36F for <[email protected]>; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:40:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from sympatico.ca ([216.208.65.77]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:41:04 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:40:58 -0500 From: Tim Dyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-SYMPA (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,fr-CA MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Ontbirds]Great Gray Owls-Peterborough area X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:40:07 -0000 Six over the past week. All along Division road east of Peterborough. Peterborough birders who have not seen one yet this winter, I would highly recommend travelling Division road. The furthest west one (which I reported earlier for the 21st of December), was still there on the 26th. (Near a shooting range property, between 8th-9th lines). Heading east, cross hwy #134, and look immediately south after crossing the highway. This Bird was found the morning of the 28th by Hugh Currie and Dianne Collins, and I saw it minutes later. I returned that evening and saw it again, though it was dangerously close to the highway. ***Please use extreem caution when viewing this bird (and others), that are found near busy roadways. From GGO studies I worked on with Doug Sadler during the 95-96, & 96-97 irruptions, 15% of all records were of road-killed owls!*** Lets not contribute to such an awful thing as this. Next owl, a smallish, dark (almost blue-looking) bird, adult male I`m almost sure. About 400 meters east of above mentioned owl. (seen also on the 28th). Continuing east, another has been present between the 24th-27th. It can be found between the Indian River (one lane bridge), and 2nd line of Duoro. Heading east further, another (on the 28th) was right at the top of a hill on the s/w corner of the intersection of Division road, and Duoro 4th line. If you can`t find this owl right away, turn south (right), on 4th line and go down to the bottom of the hill, and look west towards the stables. Next GGO was seen briefly, in the marsh of the Ouse River between 4th line & 5th line on the 24th. Photos proove this is not the same bird as just mentioned above. I have heard of others in the Stoney Lake area, but have as yet, not followed them up. The best times are dawn until 10:00am, and 2:00pm until dark. On overcast and snowing days though, they seem to be active all day long. Happy Owling to all. Tim
