A good day … we started in the Morgan Arboretum where we saw a rare Snowplodicus arboretumii skeletally wandering amongst the pines
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… and then headed out into the flatlands beyond St-Clet where we spotted two Snowy Owls and several small flocks of Snow Buntings … ending with the rediscovery of the Snow Bunting roost found by mark a couple of years ago near St-Polycarpe. Not quite as well populated as in 2007 but a good couple of hundred of birds up in the trees and truffling around on the ground near the road.
On the way we also saw a Wild Turkey (just south of the Montée-Lavigne exit from the 40) and a Red-tailed Hawk (Veaudreuil). There were White-winged Crossbills on the MacDonald campus.
Below are some pictures of these birds and a link to a Google-map showing their location if anyone is going out that way hunting:
Snowy Owl #1
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Snowy Owl #2
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Snow Bunting “roost”
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| Where to find the birds … click the following link |
This afternoon (Jan.4) we checked out Ch. Ste-Julie in both directions – we didn’t see ‘your’ Snowy Owl. Our turkey sighting was on 342 at 6 ième Rang. The Pine Grosbeaks were still feeding in a fruit tree on 342 at 4 ième Rang.