- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 01 April 2005 * ONOT0504.01
- Birds mentioned Pied-billed Grebe Snow Goose Canada Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail American Wigeon Ring-necked Duck Turkey Vulture Northern Harrier Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Gray Partridge Wild Turkey Sandhill Crane Killdeer CALIFORNIA GULL Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow Golden-crowned Kinglet Water Pipit Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 01 April 2005 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 - APR 01 2005 AT 6:00 PM This is Chris Lewis reporting. A dramatic change has occurred on the Ottawa birding scene over the past 2 days, with the floodwaters in the Bear Brook, Cobb's Lake Creek and South Nation River areas nearly at their peak today April 1st., bringing in a flood of migrants. Today, approx. 65 Greater Snow Geese were along Frank Kenney Rd. and at least 4,000 mainly adult Greater Snow's were along Russell Rd. east of Bourget. Flocks of Snow Geese were also reported from farther east near St-Isidore on the 31st. Multiple 1000's of Canada Geese were in the air and in the fields in both the Bear Brook and Cobb's Lake Creek area, along with many Green-winged Teal, 100's of Northern Pintails and small numbers of Ring-necked Ducks. Increased numbers of Wood Ducks, Turkey Vultures, Northern Harriers, Red-tailed and Rough-legged Hawks and American Kestrels have been noted over the past 3 days in various locations, and Killdeers are now widespread as well. Other firsts of the season were a Pied-billed Grebe in the channel at Britannia on March 28th, an American Wigeon and a Golden- crowned Kinglet at Britannia on the 31st, a pair of Sandhill Cranes flying over the fields west of Milton Rd. near Perrault Rd. southeast of Carlsbad Springs on April 1st, an Eastern Phoebe at Richmond Rd. and Twin Elm Rd. and a few American Pipits on Wall Rd. also on the 31st, approx. a dozen Tree Swallows along Russell Rd. east of Bourget on the 1st, and an Eastern Meadowlark and a few Rusty Blackbirds in the Milton Rd. and Frank Kenney Rd. areas also on the 1st. Back on the 28th, an adult Red-shouldered Hawk caught a Meadow Vole on Greenland Rd. near Dunrobin, a group of 9 Wild Turkeys with one male in full display was observed on March Valley Rd., and 2 Gray Partridges were seen in the Pendleton area on the 29th and 30th. An adult CALIFORNIA GULL reported from Parc Brebeuf on the Ottawa River on the evening of March 30th was searched for has not subsequently seen yet. Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript
