This remarkable posting (below) offers a hint.


> From: Christina Lewis <>
> Date: March 29, 2011 9:43:41 AM EDT
> Subject: Ottawa/Gatineau - 29 March 11 - weekly summary
> Hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club


> A phenomenal number of Greater SNOW  GEESE, perhaps 500,000 or more
> built up on Lake St. Francis in the St. Lawrence River near Lancaster
> from the 25th through the 27th; only a small number have so far  
> been seen                 closer to Ottawa.

> Two adult TRUMPETER SWANS continue to be seen on and off, on the  
> Jock River
> near the bridge along 9th Line Beckwith west of Ashton as of at  
> least the 27th.

> Approx. 100 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were still at  Shirley's Bay on the  
> 24th,                        as were good numbers of COMMON REDPOLLS.




	PS: this site is only a ten or twelve hour drive . . . if you were  
feeling weary
	 of county listing . . . with side trips possible to Amherst Island  
(owls, owls, owls)
	and the Pink Road Feeders (redpolls, boreal chickadees, gray jays,  
assorted
	grouse, woodpeckers, gray partridge  & etc., etc.)

	A word of warning, though, gas up there is currently   $1.22 per liter.

	Now then, back to spring in Maryland . . .

	 ~   Leo Weigant




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