[Ontbirds]Belted Kingfisher - Elliot Lake

[Gerard MacGillivray]

   On  the  Christmas  Bird Count of the Penokean HIlls Field Naturalists
   - Friday  December  16,  2007  -we saw a belted kingfisher at Sherriff
   Creek Sanctuary in Elliot Lake.  We saw her again on Saturday.  She is
   around the first bridge on the causeway where the water is running and
   will probably remain until the water freezes completely.

   Also  seen  on  the CBC was a hoary redpoll among the common redpolls,
   gray  jays,  bald  eagles, red tail hawk, pine grosbeaks, red breasted
   nuthatch, ruffed grouse, and during count week - a glaucous gull and a
   black backed woodpecker.

   Elliot Lake is located half way between Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie.

   Joan and Gerard MacGillivray
   73 Frobel Drive
   Elliot Lake, Ontario
   705/848-8382

   "If  everybody  in  the  world was a birdwatcher, the world would be a
   better place.  You start caring about other living things and get away
   from this me, me, me stuff."     Robert Bateman