Hi all, For past couple weeks (we just found out) 4 Bald Eagles have been seen in the Iron Bridge area along Hwy.17 west. My husband travelled Hwy. 17 to Iron...
Yesterday afternoon there were 2 trumpeter swans on the beach where the bridge crosses the entrance to Duffins Marsh. One of the Swans had a yellow tag...
Hi Graham I subscribe to birdchat and requests for trumpeter sightings have come up periodically. See below for an email from the archives. You may also want...
I know that this isn't Ontario but Vancouver's Crested Mynah is almost a thing of the past and I thought many of you would be interested to hear about it. Here...
At a recent meeting of the Toronto Ornithological Club, members and guests commented that Black-capped Chickadees appear to have virtually disappeared from...
Marcel Gahbauer
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Nov 3, 2002 8:21 pm
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Marcel, I ran in the Little Tract south of Guelph on Monday, and ran into seven to eight pockets of Chickadees. The numbers seemed high in comparison to...
Hi all, Past couple weeks have been seeing groups of snow buntings in our area (Sudbury). They always show up at this time of year and then disappear again. I...
Alan Wormington and I saw a flock of 12,000 in a field in Kent County about a 30 to 40 minute drive from Pelee. They are in the sandy marshes and along the ...
Hi, My husband thought he saw a snowy owl today. He saw it while driving and the bird was in flight. Appeared to a be a largish bird, mostly white in colour,...
A morning walk today (Nov. 8) on the Oro-Medonte Rail Trail near Line 3 produced the following late migrants: Palm Warbler 1, Eastern Bluebird 6. Margo Holt ...
Hi all, A friend who is an avid backyard birder for many years has had a rather unusual nuthatch visiting her feeders this past week. Lives in Val Therese,...
A Brown-headed Nuthatch was in Ohio last year close to Lake Erie. Fred Urie Windsor fredurie@... ... __________________________________________________ ...
Hello Birders! If you have a loonie to dig out for today's National Post you will find a copy of Elm Street Magazine which has a long article about the recent...
Hello Birders! Yesterday in a Cole's store (Sherway, in my case) there was for $19.99 a coffee-table sized book "The Encyclopedia of North American Birds" -- a...
... Hi Lock, I post this on Ontario Birding as it is a better place than ontbirds.... Anyway, although I don't know any laws for this, perhaps you can come up ...
Hi folks, Well it turns out that the mutant nuthatch has now turned out to be a carolina wren!! This is re' the bird that a friend of mine, saw in her yard a...
hello i lost my spotting scope. is there anyone out there who has upgraded her/his scope and wants to sell the old one? if so, i would like to hear details. ...
Joan Campbell
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Dec 19, 2002 4:33 pm
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Today around 5pm I was at the intersection of Hogs Back and Riverside Dr (south of the downtown core) and observed a large roost on all the trees on the...
Eve, I've seen a VERY large roost most mornings (6:45) at the old CBC building at 1500 Bronson. I'd say near a thousand birds. Sandy Lang Ottawa ... From: eve...
If anybody is planning to go and see the Varied Thrush tomorrow, Sunday, from the greater Hamilton-Mississauga-Toronto area I would be most grateful if I could...
Hi there! I am new to the group and just wanted to let you all know a bit about my birding. I have been a watcher since I could fit in a stroller, as both of...
This afternoon, to my utter surprise, I noticed a flock of about 10 robins. We live south of Barrie, Ontario, about 90 km north of Toronto. They seemed to...
I wanted to let everyone know about Frank, my resident Fox Sparrow, in my backyard in Kingston, ON. He has been with me now since the middle of October of...
A lot of people have been surprised at seeing robins around this winter. In some places they have actually been quite numerous - there were 18 different ...
Marcel Gahbauer
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Jan 30, 2003 1:06 am
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Given the recent interest in crow poulations, I thought people might be interested (if that's the right word) in the following website(it popped up by accident...
Hi there, Just reporting my sightings on Wolfe Island, near Kingston, Ontario (not all sightings, just the good ones). Sunday Feb, 2, 2003 - snowy owls (3...
I finally got a picture. Many have been questioning me as to whether or not I was sure he was a Fox sparrow. Now I can finally show him off. I have posted...
Hello Birdwatchers - you might like to read this article. (as an "antidote" to the one about the crow cull :-}) Lisa BACKYARD BIRDERS HELP TRACK WEST NILE...
Can someone tell me how rare a Bright Yellow Housefinch is? I have one in my backyard at the feeders. It is very bright yellow on chest, head and rump.I have...
