Tundra Swans at Aylmer Wildlife Area

In the early afternoon of Monday, March 24, 2008, there were literally thousands of Tundra Swans at the Aylmer Wildlife Area. The photograph shows just a small part of the area occupied by the swans.

Some March Bird Sightings

Diane Dobson reports:
Lorne Spicer spotted a Blue Phased Snow Goose on the morning of Sunday, March 16, in amongst some Canada Geese at Talbot Creek, east side of Union Road, between Fingal and Union.

Then on March 17, Mom, Steve and I were birding and not seeing any thing on the east side, we moved to the west to see Turkeys on the west side. Before we finished our travels, we saw horned larks, snow buntings, robins, red-winged black birds, killdeer, blue birds, rough leg, redtails and kestrels. We wanted an eagle so we went by the silo on the Fingal Road and behold . . two Bald Eagles flew to the ground and picked something up and went up into the next tree where they stayed. How fortunate for us to be there at the right moment. We also saw many turkeys and deer this morning. Up the road a bit from the eagles nest, we saw hundreds of Tundra Swans and one Canada Goose, looking conspicuous in the middle of them! Not a bad day after all.
Diane Dobson

Ted Suckley reports:
This morning, March 3, 2008 there was a flock of more than fifteen chickadees in my back yard on Brant Avenue. It was not possible to get an accurate count as they were constantly on the move. They remained in the yard for only about thirty minutes, after I first spotted them. There is no feeder in my yard, but the day before I had thrown some broken cookies onto the snow.
Ted Suckley