Hi Everyone
Today, April 6th, beween 7:00am and 11:00am, birded the floodplains east
of Ottawa. The Carlsbad Springs/Bear Brook area was still flooded and had
1000's of Canada Geese and a small number of Northern Pintails, American
Wigeon, Wood Duck and Green-winged Teal. Further east in the Bourget/Cobb
Lake Creek/Pendleton area, again 1000's of Canada Geese and finally found
one Greater White-fronted Goose just south of Pendleton in the road closed
area. There were small numbers of Mallard, Black, Green-winged Teal and
1000+ Northern Pintail. In the Riceville area over 7500+ Greater Snow Geese
were observed with 22 blue morph.. They were in a number of large flocks
along CR 9 near the bridge. Water levels were high with a few road closures
but should be lower over the next few days.
good birding
Bruce
Bruce Di Labio
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Carlsbad Springs/Bear Brook: Take Hwy 417 east from Ottawa to exit 96
(Carlsbad Springs), go north to Cty rd. #26 (Russell Rd.), then north on #85
(Milton Rd.)
To get to Cobbs Lake from Ottawa, travel east on Highway 417
to Boundary Road (exit #96) and turn left (north) toward Carlsbad
Springs. At the "T" junction of Boundary Road and Russell Road (Route
26), turn right (east) on Russell and continue until you come to Bourget
(approximately 25 km). In Bourget, there is a 4-way stop sign. Go
straight and, a couple of km further along, the road goes through a
spring flood plain; this is the Cobbs Lake Creek area.
Riceville area can be located by traveling east of Ottawa on Hwy.
417 to exit 51, (St.Isidore) and follow CR 9 north to the Riceville
flood plains. An Eastern Ontario MAPART Map is very helpful!
If you require any additional information please email me privately.
