- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 03 October 2004 * ONOT0410.03
- Birds mentioned Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe GREAT EGRET Black-crowned Night-Heron GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE Canada Goose Green-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Red-breasted Merganser Osprey SANDHILL CRANE Black-bellied Plover American Golden Plover Semipalmated Plover Spotted Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Northern Saw-whet Owl Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Brown Creeper Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Water Pipit Yellow-rumped Warbler Rusty Blackbird - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 03 October 2004 number: 613-860-9000 for the status line : press 2 for rare bird alerts: press 1 to report a sighting: press # coverage: Ottawa/Gatineau (Can. Nat. Capital Reg.), E.Ont., W.Que. compiler : Chris Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] transcriber: Chris Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet : Gordon Pringle [EMAIL PROTECTED] OFNC BIRD STATUS LINE - OCT 03 2004 AT 5:30 PM This is Chris Lewis reporting. Highlights in the Ottawa area this past week included the following: Four GREAT EGRETS, very late for Ottawa, were still at Shirley's Bay as of Oct. 3rd. On the 2nd at Milton Rd. east of Carlsbad Springs there were 2 SANDHILL CRANES and a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. A bird reported as a hybrid Greater White-fronted X Canada Goose was in the Carp water detention ponds south of Hazeldean Rd. at Terry Fox Dr. on the 1st. Both Horned and Red-necked Grebes are now being seen on the Ottawa River from the Shirley's Bay boat launch. An observer at the Innis Point Bird Observatory reported that 20 Northern Saw-whet Owls have been banded here since Oct. 1st. Waterfowl numbers at Shirley's Bay are increasing, with growing numbers of American Wigeon, Gadwall, Northern Shoveler, Green- winged Teal, Lesser Scaup and Ring-necked Ducks. Three Red- breasted Mergansers were on the west side of the causeway on the 2nd and 3rd. Shirley's Bay also continues to be THE place to view shorebirds in Ottawa. Fourteen species have been reported from here since Sept. 28th, including: 8 Black-bellied Plovers, 2 American Golden Plovers, 2 Semipalmated Plovers, 1 Long-billed Dowitcher, 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper, 1 Least Sandpiper, 5 Pectoral Sandpipers, 6 Dunlin, and up to 27 Wilson's Snipes. A late adult and juvenile Red-headed Woodpecker were seen in the old burn area off Whistler Rd. in Constance Bay on Sept. 28th and 29th. Also late for Ottawa were an adult Black-crowned Night- Heron on Mud Lake in Britannia on the 2nd as well as Osprey, Spotted Sandpiper and Belted Kingfisher at Shirley's Bay on the 3rd. Again, there have been very few reports of migrant songbirds other than Brown Creepers, Ruby-crowned and Golden-crowned Kinglets, Yellow-rumped Warblers, American Pipits and a few Rusty Blackbirds which are now moving through. The OFNC annual Fall Bird Count will be held from 3:00 PM on Saturday Oct. 16 - 3:00 PM on Sunday Oct. 17, with a free dinner for all participants at the compilation after 4:30 PM on the Sunday. Anyone interested in participating on the Ontario side may contact Eve Ticknor (before Oct. 14) at 737-7551 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the Quebec side, please contact Daniel St- Hilaire at 776-0860. Thank you -- Good Birding! - End transcript
