Some updates!

Some exciting news around here!!

For the first time EVER we have observed two species of owl in the same day! The last two days we've had sightings of both the Great Horned Owl and the Eastern Screech Owl. The ESO seems to have become a regular resident. We've been observing him around 5:30 or so most nights, although Dave was up early shoveling snow the other day and thought he saw the ESO out of the corner of his eye. The GHO has been very vocal! Two nights ago he/she woke me up shortly after midnight with loud and repeated hooting. He/she was back at it again this morning. Love may be in the air- it's almost mating time for them!!

And, probably the news that brings me some real relief and hope is that finally someone from a gov't agency got back to me about the Bobolinks!! YIPPEE!!! I have a contact now at the MNR and was given this link to also provide information about our sightings. I'm posting the link here in case anyone else has a run in with a threatened/at-risk/endangered species and this should help save you the months of legwork I've had to go through!! The town of Milton/Region of Halton has imminent plans to pave and build subdivisions and widen roads etc through the fields used by these birds, so we'll see if time is on our side.