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The Best of AU Words Now that the migration season is long over for ail types of birds there is no reason 10 trip off to any specific area to catch sight of those birds travelling to their nesting grounds. This left'Bill Bunting and 1 in a bit of a quandary Sunday morning just where one m-ight go to find something a little different - and it so bappened. It was none other than a gravel pit for which we had received approval to visit and which contains somne active aggregate extraction and possibly some further fifty acres of lands covered by a variety of bush and open space. To say the least the property contained diversified habitats for both plant life, trees, shrubs and as a result for birds as well. 1The pond was home to two families of Canada Geese, one having young about three-quarter the size of their parents and the other with young goslings. A piping call attracted our binoculars to three young Spotted Sandpipers which apparently had been raised on the site, Further a sand cliff was home to a number off bank swallows and one would have recorded so mewhere around one hundred holes in the bank which have been used over the years. The noisy Kingfisher made a couple of appearances with a minnow in its bill. It became apparent that we were hindering the bird from going to its niest to feed its young. With this thouglit we backed off from the area and stood behind shrubs and with the bird now feeling comfdortable il flew into a dug-out hole in a dirt bank leaving the fish. Off il went again 10 a small stream t0 continue its fishing for the famnily. Yes Kingfishers do nest in holes in dirt banks. We then moved on 10 the forested area, hemalocks, cedar, a mnaple bush section with a wide variety of plant life and what appeared to be an oldbeaver meadow with horse tails and wîld blue iris in full bloomn. The fringe area between the bushes and open spaces had an abundance of shrubs, good habitat for birds, and il was here that the Cedar Waxwings camne intosîglit along with Yellow Throats, and the sound of a Magnolia Warbler, Veery and Yellow Warbler as well as a possible Rose Breasted Grosbeak. The fruits of the Red and Black Elderberry were heavy on the shrubs and of considerabule interest was a grove of healihy ElMS, that trez, that bas almost disappeared due to the infestation of the Elm beetie. The open, space provided us with a sighting of the King Bird, the Tree Swallows, the Meadow Lark Song Sparrows and of course the Red Wing Blackbird and the song of the Indigo Bunting. It is flot often one cau i fnd an area with so miany diversi ties in habitat as lias tis particular gravel pit area. As a resuit the range o1 bird sighting went from waterfowl, t0 shore birds, to those of the fringc areas, the forest and to the oper, spaces. it was the best of al worlds as tF habitat and what nature provides foi al ils living creatures. 1 might mention that last week 1 received a phone eall from a resident of Kendal enquiring about Cuekoos and if it would be possible that they would be in this area. They had heard a "coo coo"call in the western part of the hamiet and appeared quite excited about the possibility of such a b ird being in the area. SYellow-billed Cuckoos do exist in the area and are larger tdm a Jay. It is flot that we have seen that many but have run across four in the past number of years, with two being in the Baxter Creek area flowing into Millbrook and two along the forest roads in the Ganaraska. In most cases they have been seen lin shrubs while one was foraging for caterpillars in the top of a poplar and being most successfuil in doig so. Certainly the world about us is most înteresting in ils natural form, protect it as you efjoy it. Bus hook-up wîth GO to service Orono The Town of Newcastle have given their stamp of approvai 10 a Ministry of Transportation proposal as it relates to bus service from Peterboroughi-Port Perry bus service. The bus service is expected 10 be in place this faîl with special buses. The report oullines the Peterboroughi route would make connecti9on for pick-up and drop off at Enterprise Hill, Orono and Newcastle Village. The service will provide commuters the opportunity 10 link with Whitby GO station and with the GM Oshawa complex. The province has contended that an ail-day bus service can be offered at a lower cost than a single train-day service. The bus service is being subsidized by the province. - 4 cS-14T660 es 21170 1"cmpatpersnlcolour tlvso.29 fu cti if rared $34995 Only $4.25 a Week OAC. '-r=ORONO TOWN HALL" Strawberry Festival. 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