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Subject: [Ontbirds]evening grosbeaks outside of cobalt
From: "The Murphy's" <birdboy(AT)ntl.sympatico.ca>
Date: 11 Mar 2008 10:13am
Greetings birders just thought would report that our areas first flock of
evening grosbeaks in months was spotted outside of cobalt as well pine
grosbeak and redpoll numbers seem to be rising in the area perhaps signaling
the vanguard of the return of winter finches to the north. The Hilliardton
marsh has hosted quite a number of hoary redpolls recently much to the
pleasure of many who went hoping to specifically see some last week. Pish
on!! Bruce Murphy
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Ontbirds and SPAM
From: Mark Cranford <mark.cranford(AT)ofo.ca>
Date: 11 Mar 2008 2:02pm
Birders
Just got back this morning on a red-eye flight from a birding trip. I'm
still a little sleep deprived. For the last three weeks the list has
been ably monitored by my brother Tim. Thank you, Tim.
The recent spam message entitled "MIRIAM N sent you a special gift" was
sent to the entire Ontbirds list and its 2000 plus subscribers from a
registered Ontbirds subscriber. Blubet.com is something that bills
itself as 'social betting' a form of social networking similar to
Facebook except that its focus is on betting (popularity polls?) using
imaginary 'money'. Something I would ignore.
One of the more common forms of email address gathering used to build up
social networks is to ask a user of their service to invite others to
join the network. If you accept the service (Facebook, Blubet etc) it
will access your address book and send email invitations to all
addresses listed including ontbirds(AT)hwcn.org.
Future messages containing the word BluBet are now blocked for review by
Ontbirds software.
Ontbirds employs a number of strategies to block spam and viruses.
Without detailing the works, first-time posts from new subscribers are
held for review. If you unsubscribe then resubscribe at a later date,
your first post is reviewed before going to the list. I then have to
reset a moderation flag so that future posts go directly to the list.
There are many email addresses that predate these settings. So there
could be potential 'trojan horses' - accidents happen.
As always discussing spam and virus related problems on Ontbirds is not
to be encouraged. It may feel good but it just annoys others and
compounds the problem.
Back to my field notes.
--
Mark Cranford
ONTBIRDS Coordinator
Mississauga, Ont.
mark.cranford(AT)ofo.ca
905 279 9576
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Horned Larks
From: "Linda Crome" <lindacrome(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 11 Mar 2008 7:22am
On Saturday, despite inclement weather the Brereton Field Naturalists of
Barrie toured outskirts of the Minesing wetlands and found: 30 Horned Larks,
2 Snowies, 3 Roughleged Hawks, a Northern Shrike (just outside the village
of Minesing, first street on left) 5 Blue Jays after returning to Hwy 90,
turned north on Mckinnon to the farmhouse on the east side at he end and
found: 1 Hairy, 1 Downie, Tree Sparrows, House Sparrows, Goldfinches, a Red
Bellied Woodpecker, and lots of Junco's.
This morning I found one group of 10 Horned Larks on the top of the first
hill coming out east of Cookstown, and another group of about 25 on
Hwy.89just east of Yonge Street.
Come join us on our next field trip, Saturday March 29th, back to that same
area,for the last 6 years we have found Sandhill Cranes. Linda Crome
breretonfieldnaturalists.org
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Yellow-headed Blackbird and Red-bellied Woodpecker
From: "Brian Young" <brian-young(AT)storm.ca>
Date: 11 Mar 2008 3:05pm
Hello,
Lise and I birded areas of Eastern Ontario this Monday, the Yellow-headed
Blackbird and Red-bellied Woodpecker is still visiting the bird feeder at
19275, concession 19 near Williamstown, north of Cornwall. The gentleman at
this resident keeps a couple of large bird feeders and onion sacks of suets
attracting large assortments of birds. These are probably the best fed birds
in the Cornwall region.
We also visited the Ste Rose area east of Casselman, although we did not see
any Snowy Owls, there was many flocks of Horned Larks, totalling more than a
hundred birds on concession 19 and 20 with a small number of Snow Buntings.
In the Alfred area we saw three different coveys of Grey Partridge numbering
between twenty to thirty birds as a combine total on Peat Bog Road and
Concession 10, small numbers of Horned Larks and Snow Buntings, along with
two Merlins.
Cheers,
Brian Young
DIRECTIONS, courtesy of Jacques Bouvier, (from Cornwall):
Take Hwy 401 west of Cornwall to exit 804. Proceed north past Summerstown
Station until you get to the stop sign just past the Raisin River bridge.
Turn right on Cty Rd 19 towards Williamstown. A couple of kms along, just
past the covered bridge (on your right) is 19,275 County Road 19, on the
north (left) side of the road. It is a blue house. The owner allows birders
to drive up the lane and check out his feeder on the north side of the
house. If the weather is lousy the owner will allow birders to walk up into
the 2 car garage, up the little set of steps into the sun room and look in
comfort from there. Please do not block the driveway.
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Subject: [Ontbirds]3 Harlequin Ducks at Humber Bay Park in Toronto
From: "Andrew Don" <adon14(AT)cogeco.ca>
Date: 11 Mar 2008 5:03pm
Went by Humber Bay Park East in Toronto today and found 3 Harlequin Ducks ,1 was
a gorgeous male. They were out on the lakeside by the far south-east corner of
the park. Also saw Horned grebe, Ruddy ducks and the usual waterfowl. A bonus
was a Merlin hanging out in a tree by the parking lot
Humber Bay park can be reached by going south from the Park Lawn Road exit off
Gardiner Expressway to the lake and turning right in the first entrance after
Lakeshore Road.
Have photos of the Harlequins and other birds at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrew-don/
Andrew Don
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