Stonehaven sits on Newmarket's eastern shoulder, the grid of newer subdivisions that grew up between Leslie Street and the Bayview Parkway through the late 1990s and 2000s. It's a family neighbourhood in the truest sense — minivans in the driveways, a hockey bag by every front door, and the Ray Twinney Recreation Complex pulling half the kids in the area to its rinks and pool. The streets curve gently off Stonehaven Avenue and Eagle Street East, and the southern edge backs onto the green tangle of the Holland River trails, where you'll hear cardinals and chickadees long before you see them.
Households out here run busy, and that's usually why people first write to us. Between weeknight practices at the Twinney, weekend tournaments out of town, and a job that might mean a stretch of travel, a pet bird can quietly slip down the priority list. We exist for the weeks when you simply can't be home to lift the cage cover and notice that the conure hasn't touched its pellets. Your bird comes to our small studio room, where it's one of two households at most, and we give it the steady attention an empty house can't.
From Stonehaven we're a short run west — across the river, past the Upper Canada Mall area, ten minutes or so depending on whether Davis Drive is cooperating. Many Stonehaven owners use the Newmarket GO station on Bayview before a stretch away, so a drop-off on the way fits the day rather than fighting it. We can also pick up and drop off door-to-door if you're packing the car for a trip and the last thing you need is a carrier on your lap.
Inside, the routine is yours, not ours. We feed the diet you send, on your schedule, and we keep the room calm — no dog, no blaring television, just morning sun and quiet. Every day you're gone, you get a photo letter: a few honest pictures and a paragraph about how the day went. For a Stonehaven family juggling rinks, work, and travel, knowing the bird is genuinely fine — and seeing it — takes one real worry off the list.
— from the studioNorthbird Newmarket · serving Stonehaven