- RBA
* Ontario
* Ottawa/Gatineau
* 05 May 2003
* ONOT0305.05
- Birds mentioned
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
American Bittern
SNOWY EGRET
Green-backed Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Snow Goose
EURASIAN WIGEON
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
TUFTED DUCK
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Red-breasted Merganser
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
MISSISSIPPI KITE
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Virginia Rail
Sora
Common Moorhen
Spotted Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
Bonaparte's Gull
Black Tern
Chimney Swift
House Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Blue-headed Vireo
Nashville Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Palm Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Bobolink
- Transcript
hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
date: 05 May 2003
number: 613-860-9000 press 2
to report: 613-860-9000 press #
coverage: Ottawa/Gatineau (Can. Nat. Capital Reg.), E.Ont., W.Que.
compilers : Bev McBride
: Colin Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Chris Lewis
transcriber: Michelle Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
internet : Gordon Pringle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OFNC BIRD STATUS LINE MONDAY MAY 5 AT 9 AM
This is Chris Lewis reporting.
Highlights of the week were a male TUFTED DUCK found on April 30
at Shirley's Bay and still present on May 4, associating with the
Lesser Scaup. The bird has usually been visible from the boat
launch on the east side of the dyke but has also been seen on the
west side. Please remember to call the Range Control office at
991-5740 if you plan to go onto the dyke.
The male EURASIAN WIGEON, also found on the 30th, is also still
present, west of Masson Québec, in the large open water marsh
complex along the Ottawa River. It has been variously seen at
Secteur Marais de Grand and Secteur Lac Carpentier. Look for the
signs along highway 148 to access the marshes.
Neither the MISSISSIPPI KITE, seen flying over Ottawa on May 1,
nor the SNOWY EGRET, seen flying west over the village of Carp on
May 3, have been relocated.
Otherwise, spring migration is proceeding on schedule. Water
birds seen on the Ottawa River including Common Loon, Horned
Grebe, Pied-billed Grebe, Double-crested Cormorants and all the
puddle duck species as well as many Ring-necked Duck, Lesser Scaup
and Bufflehead. Two pairs of Redheads were in the marshes west of
Masson, at the same time and location as the EURASIAN WIGEON, and
pair of Red-breasted Mergansers was on the Ottawa River at Thurso
in Québec on May 3 as well.
Three Snow Geese were in the gravel pit south of Greely on May 3.
An early Green Heron was at Mud Lake in Britannia the same day.
An immature Black-crowned Night-Heron was still at Mud Lake on May
2.
An immature Bald Eagle was flying over Mud Lake on the 2nd and
another was in Thurso on the 3rd. Approximately a dozen Turkey
Vultures and 4 Red-tailed Hawks flew over the Dunrobin area April
30 and Ospreys are being seen daily anywhere there is water.
The downtown Peregrines have 3 eggs. The female is incubating
them right now at the northwest corner of the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
The Masson area marshes described above are evidently a good
location to find American Bitterns, Virginia and Sora Rails,
Common Moorhens, Wilson's Snipes, Bonaparte's Gulls and Black
Terns. All of these species were found here over the past week.
Spotted Sandpipers are back as well, with small numbers seen at
Shirley's Bay and at the pond at High Rd and Earl Armstrong Rd on
May 3 and 4.
Chimney Swifts and all 6 species of swallows have returned, mainly
reported from Britannia. Ruby-crowned Kinglets have largely gone
but a male Blue-gray Gnatcatcher was found at Britannia on May 2
second along the river shore north of Cassels Rd and a House Wren
was at Shirley's Bay on the 4th. Blue-headed Vireos and 8 species
of warblers were found since May 1 including: Nashville, Yellow,
Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green, Palm and Black-and-
white.
The first report of Bobolinks was on the early side a few were
found in Carp on May 4.
Things are happening fast, keep your eyes to the skies, enjoy
spring and good birding.
- End transcript
Gordon Pringle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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