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I have to say, being able to drop the "I am actually a lawyer (and don't just play one on the internets)" is an awesome trump card.


It really is the best trump online I've seen in a long time


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Nonsense nothing to do with charter! Show me the law and means that they would use to enforce or punish you if you so choose to publish the GPS location of an owl. Is it some Hogwarts school of owls bylaw. If it's not in the wildlife conservation act or some other bylaw then without a signed contract you have nothing to fear. If they find out who you are they could try to keep you off the property because of trespassing laws but considering the considerable number of tpmg members that break the law of trespassing, or even worse do break and entry's (as it comes under the criminal code). Good luck keeping them out.


I agree. It is unenforcable. It's not even a law. It's just a normative suggestion, a plea for us to behave in a ecological sensible manner.


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Now who behaves in an ecological sensible manner? We are mankind, not part of the animal kingdom at all.


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Nonsense nothing to do with charter! Show me the law and means that they would use to enforce or punish you if you so choose to publish the GPS location of an owl. Is it some Hogwarts school of owls bylaw. If it's not in the wildlife conservation act or some other bylaw then without a signed contract you have nothing to fear. If they find out who you are they could try to keep you off the property because of trespassing laws but considering the considerable number of tpmg members that break the law of trespassing, or even worse do break and entry's (as it comes under the criminal code). Good luck keeping them out.


I agree. It is unenforcable. It's not even a law. It's just a normative suggestion, a plea for us to behave in a ecological sensible manner.


Whoa, Fionah agreeing with Metrix. Mind. Blown.


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Whoa, Fionah agreeing with Metrix. Mind. Blown.


Stop being a trouble maker! 8) It's sad that conservation isn't the norm for most of North America. We seem to need to invent rules and regulations for what should be natural. Then again the corporations are the worst offenders.


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The owl policy is now posted on the Tommy Thompson Park web page along with a wildlife policy with similar restrictions on freedom of expression.

http://tommythompsonpark.ca/home/geninfo.dot

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no pets in the park :S


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Well, for anyone interested, I went down this weekend to look for Snowy Owls, and it was just a matter of asking people walking out of the park if they had seen any and everyone was more than happy to tell me exactly where and when they saw not only the Snowy's, but also a wide variety of other birds as well. In fact, since I was carying my big lens on my monopod, people would come off the trails to explicitly ask me if I had seen them and were giving detailed directions, so I'm not sure how useful their online gag order really is.


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Did ya get any pics of 'em? :)


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Well, for anyone interested, I went down this weekend to look for Snowy Owls, and it was just a matter of asking people walking out of the park if they had seen any and everyone was more than happy to tell me exactly where and when they saw not only the Snowy's, but also a wide variety of other birds as well. In fact, since I was carying my big lens on my monopod, people would come off the trails to explicitly ask me if I had seen them and were giving detailed directions, so I'm not sure how useful their online gag order really is.


Well that's it .... now there are going to be snitch enforcement officers placed all over the park because of you! :) JK


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Did ya get any pics of 'em? :)


A few... watch the next couple days for the best ones .

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Snowy Owl by pbruch, on Flickr


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Did ya get any pics of 'em? :)


A few... watch the next couple days for the best ones .



Cool shot. Thanks.


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Now that pic is worth a thousand words. Thanks.


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He is beautiful! Great shot.


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it would be even better with snow :)


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Now that pic is worth a thousand words. Thanks.


The Geotag is worth a thousand footsteps ;)


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Now that pic is worth a thousand words. Thanks.


The Geotag is worth a thousand footsteps ;)


hahahaha aint that the truth.


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Now that pic is worth a thousand words. Thanks.


The Geotag is worth a thousand footsteps ;)

Except when you zoom into the map it shows the photo was taken in the turning basin. Which seems highly unlikely. :lol:

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Now that pic is worth a thousand words. Thanks.


The Geotag is worth a thousand footsteps ;)

Except when you zoom into the map it shows the photo was taken in the turning basin. Which seem highly unlikely. :lol:

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:-) - Geotag was added after the shot


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I was thinking of looking for some snowy owls this weekend. Does anyone know if they are any on Toronto Island? It is more accessible for me than Tommy Thompson Park.


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I have not heard of any Snowy Owls on the Island this year. And talk about raising the dead, this is one ancient thread.

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thanks DG, apparently there are more snowy owls in southern Ontario this year than there have been in decades. I was going to go to Tommy Thompson today but it is snowing heavily at the moment. Not that I'm afraid of snow I just hate to have snow obscuring any shots and I bet they are harder to spot in a snow storm....that and I have to shovel the driveway and our snowbird neighbor's driveway.


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Typical good places for the snowies are Colonel Smith park on the lake at the end of Kipling, the Holland Marsh areas, there was one in the harbour area in Whitby a few weeks back. At one point there were reports of multiple Snowy Owls on Amherst Island and similar reports came out of Wolfe Island, both near Kingston.

People tend to be less prone to sharing because of the idiots who show up with mice for bait. Snowies like big open areas for the most part, although they like the lake areas because they will take ducks.

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I was on Toronto Island yesterday and I saw a guy ice fishing. So I walked out on to the harbour ice to photograph him. We chatted for about an hour about the Island and as we talked we saw a big snowy fly by quickly from the Island towards the area where the Docks is located. The ice fisher lives on Wards Island and says that he's seen snowy as well as horned owls this winter on the island. He says the snowy typically have been preying on smaller ducks that stray from the flock. And as a sidebar, there have been a few coyotes that have crossed the frozen channel from the Spit this winter and this has reduced the cat population in Wards.

Oh well, I missed my encounter with the snowy owl but there was a silver lining viewtopic.php?f=7&t=25780


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