Despite unseasonably cold temperatures over the weekend, several interesting migrants were observed in the Newmarket area. On Saturday afternoon, Paul and Lorena Campbell observed the first TURKEY VULTURE of the spring in this area. It was flying north of Queensville; they added an AMERICAN KESTREL on Kennedy Road in Willow Beach north of Keswick on their way home. On Sunday afternoon Raoul Hendricks had the first reported RED-SHOULDERED HAWK of the spring (Bradford area), and on the same day Keith Dunn observed two NORTHERN HARRIERS hunting on the north side of Hochreiter Road between Newmarket and Bradford. Also along Hochreiter, but on Friday, Mary Carnahan had a pair of PILEATED WOODPECKERS then observed a lingering NORTHERN SHRIKE just a little further north, near the top end of Bathurst Street. As reported in an earlier post, a small group of us saw 100+ TUNDRA SWANS and little else on the north side of Hochreiter Road Saturday morning but the Campbells had much better luck at the same location that afternoon, observing not only the swans but approx. 200 NORTHERN PINTAIL in the company of several GREEN-WINGED TEAL, MALLARDS, and BLACK DUCKS. On Sunday, Mary Carnahan observed two small groups of HOODED MERGANSERS along the canal south of Bradford while Mike Van den Tillaart had perhaps the most notable bird of the weekend for this area - a SNOW GOOSE in the East Holland River south of Green Lane in Newmarket. As reported on this website, Brian Morin and co. are seeing up to 10,000 of these geese in the Cornwall area! We are pleased to have this one stray; I will be out looking for it after work today. Ron Fleming, Newmarket Directions: Hochreiter Road and the north end of Bathurst Street are accessed from Yonge Street north of Newmarket. Between Bradford and Newmarket (after a long descent north of the stoplights indicating Holland Landing), you come to a stoplight indicating Bathurst Street. Turn right, then a quick left and the road soon turns north again after crossing a railroad track. Drive straight north, past Queensville Sdrd. and you will soon come to a large sign for Albert's Marina. Hochreiter Road runs west and, despite the lunarlike driving conditions, is worth checking out; the top end of Bathurst is straight ahead with most of the flooded fields being on the west side.