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The Journal of the Ontario Field Ornithologists Volume 13 Number 3 December 1995 Ontario Field Ornithologists The Journal of the Ontario Field Ornithologists Volume 13 Number 3 December 1995 Ontario Field Ornithologists Ontario Field Ornithologists is an organization dedicated to the study of birdlife in Ontario. It was formed to unify the ever-growing numbers of field ornithologists (birders/birdwatchers) across the province and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information among its members. The Ontario Field Ornithologists officially oversees the activities of the Ontario Bird Records Committee (OBRC), publishes a newsletter (OFO News) and a journal (Ontario Birds), hosts field trips throughout Ontario and holds an Annual General Meeting in the autumn. Current President: Jean Iron, 9 Lichen Place, Don Mills, Ontario M3A 1X3 (416) 445-9297 (e-mail: [email protected]). All persons interested in bird study, regardless of their level of expertise, are invited to become members of the Ontario Field Ornithologists. Membership rates can be obtained from the address below. All members receive Ontario Birds and OFO News. Please send membership inquiries to: Ontario Field Ornithologists, Box 62014, Burlington Mall Postal Outlet, Burlington, Ontario L7R 4K2. Ontario Birds Editors: Bill Crins, Ron Pittaway, Ron Tozer Editorial Assistance: Jean Iron, Nancy Checko Art Consultant: Chris Kerrigan Design/Production: Centennial Printers (Peterborough) Ltd. The aim of Ontario Birds is to provide a vehicle for documentation of the birds of Ontario. We encourage the submission of full length articles and short notes on the status, distribution, identification, and behaviour of birds in Ontario, as well as location guides to significant Ontario b!rdwatching areas, book reviews, and similar material of interest on Ontario birds. If possible, material submitted for publication should be double-spaced and typewritten. All submissions are subject to review and editing. Please submit items for publication to the Editors at the address noted above. Ontario Birds Volume 13 Number 3 December 1995 Pages 89 -132 Table of Contents Letter to the Editors 89 Articles Fort Severn 1940 - with Cliff Hope 90 Ross D. James Notes Atlantic Puffin: third Ontario record 99 Bruce M. Di Labio Merlin preys on bat 101 Don Shanahan OFO Bird Finding Guide #5 A Birder's Guide to the Rondeau Provincial Park Area 103 P. Allen Woodliffe Recognizable Forms Morphs of the Parasitic Jaeger 123 Ron Pittaway Photo Quiz 131 Bob Curry Cover Illustration: Le Conte's Sparrow by Ross D. James ISSN 0822-3890 89 Letter to the Editors Review Criticized I was astonished by the lengthy it invaluable (locals too) despite the review of Clive Goodwin's A Bird­ reviewer's scepticism. Many other Finding Guide to Ontario (Ontario Birds criticisms deserve rebuttal, but I will 13: 77-82). One page of review and cite only two: five more mostly carping criticism. 1. Lack of precise directions for By its very nature, an extensive locating Louisiana Waterthrush. Atlas guide for the whole of Ontario will be of the Breeding Birds of Ontario classes deficient in some respects. Dwelling this bird as "rare", with only three on such defects to the exclusion of its nesting sites being in any form of obvious merits is destructive. Last protected area. All other sites are on minute revisions are impractical and private land. Ontario Birds at Risk expensive (ever built a house?). Clive calls it I'threatened". Need I say Goodwin deserves great credit for more? producing a second edition after only 2. Now for the hilarious Woodlawn/ 13 years -- Pettingill took 25! Woodland storm-in-a-teacup. Likely After publication of the first Goodwin was mislead here by using edition, many birders wrote in with local sources. OFO's excellent "Bird corrections and suggestions, all of Finding Guide # 1: Birding in the which were graciously acknowledged Hamilton Area" in Ontario Birds by the author. Seemingly, the 8 (3) has no less than three references reviewer did not do likewise. Pity. to Woodlawn Cemetery. This guide Birders visiting the United States was written by a Hamiltonian, but seldom travel without their ABA Lane alas, his collaborator lived east of the guides. Modern systematic lists with dreaded Credit River! As Ed Mirvish bar codes are far superior to the old might say, II a touch of humbility" four seasons system. Especially so was needed here. with fast Inoving migrants (e.g. Fox I suggest that most experienced, Sparrow). Goodwin has taken much as well as novice, birders will trouble with his systenlatic list and welcome this second edition of subjected it to review by none other A Bird-Finding Guide to Ontario and than three of the province's top find it helpful, if only for hot-line authorities: jclrnes, Weir and Ridout. birds in unfanliliar areas. I consider I anl glad he has follo\ved ABA's 111 y rlloney very well spent. exalnple, and visiting birders vvill find Gordon Bellerby Niagara-on-the- Lake Ontario VOLUME 13 NUMBER 3 90 Articles Fort Severn 1940 - 'With Cliff Hope by Ross D. James Introduction river on the river bank. The ROM On a third trip in as many years to party set up "camp" in one of the the remote northwestern parts of HBC warehouses. Ontario, Cliff Hope visited Fort Hope describes the country Severn, a small native community on imlnediately about the post as a mass the banks of the Severn River about of stunted willows. Large islands in ten kilometres inland from the the river were covered with a nearly Hudson Bay coast (Figure 1). Hope's impenetrable gr()wth of gnarled and trip remains the only extended trip dwarfed willows. The river shores, specifically to study bird life there, subject to tidal action, had wide mud and many significant observations and gravel shores, backed by grassy resulted from it. flats with gravelly pools and then Hope left Toronto with the same dense growths of poplars and willows travelling companions that on higher banks. To the west of the accompanied him to Attawapiskat town was open spruce-tamarack Lake in 1939, L.A. Prince and W.B. muskeg. Scott (James 1994). They left on Up river from the post, the 4 June, going by train to Winnipeg, riverbanks were often more Manitoba, and Melville, precipitous, some reaching 15 m Saskatchewan, .and then northeast to high, with chunks falling away here The Pas and Ilford, Manitoba. They and there as water eroded the bases. remained in Manitoba for a week, The tops of the riverbanks were well finally flying to Fort Severn on 15 wooden with spruce forests, some June, along the Sachigo and Severn trees as large as 30 cm in diameter. Rivers. The rivers initially follow a Sphagnum moss and reindeer lichen channel between fairly high banks. carpeted the forest floor. The river Some 80 km from Sachigo Lake, the islands only had poplars and willow, route entered the Hudson Bay some of the poplars on larger islands Lowland; numerous sl11alliakes of reaching substantial size, as well. the shield country gave way to vast Back from the better drained banks, stretches of muskeg. away from the river, the country Fort Severn was a community of became more of a black spruce only about 90 Cree Indians. The muskeg. Hudson Bay C~mpany manager, Jack About halfway to the coast from Wilson, was the only non-native the town, the last trees were seen on person there. The HBC post consisted the flat ''barrens" extending to the of five buildings in a one acre bay. Patches of stunted willows and clearing about ten metres above the alders fewer than 30 cm high ONTARIO BIRDS DECEMBER 1995 1, A),. , o.,.~. HUDSON BAY 56° 00' N , o< t'""I c: ~ trl ...... (.oJ z 87°.45' W 87°.30' W c: ~ to trl t.O :xl Figure 1: Map of the Fort Severn area, Ontario. ...... (.oJ 92 persisted for some distance amid cold rains were probably more of an open areas of "grass". This was impediment initially, and they dotted with innumerable pools, ponds experienced 5 cm of snow on 19 and streams. The willows became June. more stunted and pools more They left Fort Severn on 23 July, numerous closer to the coast, until some 38 days after arrival. They had finally only "coarse grass" remained, intended to stay about another week, over which high tides flowed. Finally, but the schooner M.S. Severn, that wide mudflats bordered the bay. was to take them to Churchill, Open water extended out several Manitoba, arrived early. They spent kilometres to the ice cover still most of the night packing in order to present offshore. be able to leave with the ship the Travel was largely on foot; thus next day. The following day, they he might have encountered more were still weaving their way through things along the coast if he had been floating ice on Hudson Bay as they more mobile. He was able to walk to travelled northwest. most available habitats, however. Again I have indicated, for each Several canoe trips were made with appropriate species in the following Jack Wilson's canoe to coastal areas accounts, by " #" that specimens and once up the river for about 12 were preserved in the ROM, and by km. He obviously had no spotting ".', that nesting/breeding was clearly scope, so many birds off or along the documented. Details are on coast could not be identified. They specimens or~est record cards in the had to contend with mosquitoes in museum. warmer weather, but these did not seem to limit activities. Persistent Species Accounts Red-throated Loon, Gavia stellata: # Rare; he saw two flying on 1 July, one swam down river on 15 July and two were brought to him from the coast on 12 July.
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