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Request for Information => Birding Areas => Topic started by: Cody on April 29, 2009, 07:57:45 PM

Title: Beamer Conservation Area Birding
Post by: Cody on April 29, 2009, 07:57:45 PM

Hi everyone,

  I check the http://www.virtualbirder.com (http://www.virtualbirder.com) on a daily basics and I always see the Beamer Conservation Area daily report and I see so many birds on there every day but when I have gone to Beamer I saw almost nothing.

   I was wondering what is the best time to go to Beamer, where is the best spot there, and are there any other good spots in the Beamer Area (e.g. fields in Grassie) ?

I would really appreciate it if someone replies soon because I will be there on the weekend and still need to plan some other things for that day.


   Thanks,
    Cody

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Post by: Misty01 on April 30, 2009, 11:27:48 PM

hey I have only gone to beamer myself a few times and I prefer to go to 50 point convervation area and binbrook conservation area. They are all a little distance but well worth the trip, also if you go to 50 point you may as well go down the hwy to the lift bridge just take east port drive and the parking lot is on the left hand side. If you look way up to the green towers the one on the burlington side has a nesting pair of peregrin falcons   :D Good luck

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Post by: Cody on May 01, 2009, 07:25:30 PM

Thanks for the information! Do you have to pay to get in to 50 Point Conservation area?

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Post by: cocosally on May 01, 2009, 11:30:07 PM

Quote from: "Misty01"

hey I have only gone to beamer myself a few times and I prefer to go to 50 point convervation area and binbrook conservation area. They are all a little distance but well worth the trip, also if you go to 50 point you may as well go down the hwy to the lift bridge just take east port drive and the parking lot is on the left hand side. If you look way up to the green towers the one on the burlington side has a nesting pair of peregrin falcons   :D Good luck

You will definitely see the pair there....if you look up across the canel on the tower, there is a little flip open place with a window, the nest is there and one of them will be on the tower all the time.  

this is my husband's photos of one of them:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91706784@N ... et-464452/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/91706784@N00/3374523206/in/set-464452/)

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Post by: Cody on May 02, 2009, 08:50:43 AM

Thanks! I will try and check that out soon. But now I will probably only be going to Beamer because the car is low on gas.

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Post by: Cody on May 07, 2009, 08:22:07 AM

Nice pictures! Where do you go in Hamilton to get all the Blue Heron shots?