- RBA
* Ontario
* Ottawa/Gatineau
* 15 September 2003
* ONOT0309.15
- Birds mentioned
Common Loon
GREAT EGRET
Snow Goose
American Golden Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
AMERICAN AVOCET
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
WHIMBREL
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
RED KNOT
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Water Pipit
- Transcript
hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
date: 15 September 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 : Chris Lewis
: Terry Higgins
: Colin Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
transcriber: Michelle Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
internet : Gordon Pringle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OFNC BIRD STATUS LINE - SEP 15 2003 AT 9:00 PM
This is Chris Lewis reporting.
While songbird migration has remained virtually a non-event in the
Ottawa area, shorebirds have certainly become more interesting in
the past week.
The highlight was an AMERICAN AVOCET discovered at the
Chesterville sewage lagoon on Sept. 14th. It was still present in
the northern cells of the lagoon on the 15th. PLEASE NOTE that
this is on PRIVATE PROPERTY - maintenance crews are on duty on
week-days, and entry may be prohibited. Also at this lagoon on
both the 14th and 15th there were approx. 20 Lesser Yellowlegs in
the northern cells.
On the 15th at the Winchester sewage lagoon, there was excellent
habitat in the south-central cell - 9 species of shorebirds were
here including approx. 15 Killdeers, 5 Semipalmated Plovers, 3
Greater and 57 Lesser Yellowlegs, approx. 15 Semipalmated and 2
Least Sandpipers, 1 Baird's Sandpiper, 8 Pectoral Sandpipers and 5
Stilt Sandpipers.
A HUDSONIAN GODWIT was reported from the base of Shirley's Bay
dyke at noon on Sept. 13th ; it was searched for but not relocated
the following day. A WHIMBREL found in the northeast cell of the
St. Albert lagoon on Sept. 11 was seen here again on the 14th.
One of the 2 juvenile RED KNOTS discovered at St. Albert on the
7th was still in the northeast cell on the 13th. The shorebird
habitat on the west side of Shirley's Bay dyke continues to
improve - on the 14th there were 9 species of shorebirds including
14 Pectoral and 1 Stilt Sandpiper.
Other notable sightings included a GREAT EGRET at the Bruce Pit on
Cedarview Rd. on the morning of Sept. 11th. It was not seen again,
but an American Golden Plover was at this location on the 14th.
American Pipits are starting to move through - 6 were seen at the
Winchester lagoon on the 15th. From farther afield, at Lake Dore
north of Eganville, a tight group of 25 Common Loons was on the
lake on Sept. 14th.
And, going back to the 10th, a single Snow Goose was on the Ottawa
River between Britannia Park and Andrew Haydon Park - a sign of
the season to come!
Thank you - Good Birding!
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