Here is a quick brief on my first trip to the park. About 20 km's south of Bancroft sighted a GREAT GRAY OWL flying down the highway in front of the car aout 50 meters up. Sun was just starting to pop up over the trees. It turned to the right and flew out towards a small pond/lake and landed in the treeline. No attempt made to photograph it due to the lighting as my 80-400vr wouldn't have done much good. Great start to the day all the same. As for the park itself, checked out all the areas given by the guide, none of which turned up much. The feeder at the front of the vistor center had BLUE JAYS & only FEMALE PINE GROSBEAKS. The back feeder had BLUEJAYS by the truckload; PINE SISKIN; MALE & FEMALE PINE GROSBEAK with a very unexpected vistor being a PINE MARTIN. A SPRUCE GROUSE jumped out in front of the car on the way out of the visitor centre. I thought it was cold in Kingston, my eyelashes had icicles on them, but a hot thermas of timmys helped alot. Both species of CROSSBILLS where seen on various sites on the roads. Two EVENING GROSBEAKS were found along the entrance to the vistor centre.
