- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 17 April 2005 * ONOT0504.17
- Birds mentioned Common Loon Double-crested Cormorant Tundra Swan Snow Goose Cackling Goose Canada Goose Blue-winged Teal EURASIAN WIGEON Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Merlin Peregrine Falcon American Coot SANDHILL CRANE Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper CALIFORNIA GULL Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Three-toed Woodpecker Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Veery Brown Thrasher Yellow-rumped Warbler Pine Warbler Chipping Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Rusty Blackbird - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 17 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 17 2005 AT 7:00 PM This is Chris Lewis reporting. An adult CALIFORNIA GULL found at a large pond on the east side of Moodie Dr. south of the Trail Rd. landfill on Apr. 15th has not been relocated. If you visit this site, please do not cross the gate as this is private property. A male EURASIAN WIGEON was seen on the 16th on the Quebec side at Petit Baie Clement, 6 km. west of Masson; the bay and the bird can also be seen from the Marais aux Grenouillettes 1.2 km farther west. An adult Tundra Swan was discovered in the north-central cell of the Embrun sewage lagoons along Rte. 400 on the 16th as well. The 1st locally reported Common Loons were on the Ottawa River at Andrew Haydon Park and Shirley's Bay on the 17th, Double-crested Cormorants appeared at Dow's Lake on the 15th and a few began to appear on the Ottawa River this past weekend. In waterfowl reports, several flocks of Snow Geese have continued to move through in the Cobb's Lake Creek area east of Bourget and at the Embrun lagoons from the 13th through the 17th. A Cackling Goose was with the Canada Geese along Hwy 417 at Kinburn Side Rd. on the 13th. Approx. 130 Common Mergansers were at the Moodie Dr. pond on the 17th and good numbers of this species are on the Ottawa River as well. Five displaying male Ruddy Ducks and one female were on the Moodie Dr. pond on the 17th, and the 1st Blue- winged Teal of the season was reported from the Embrun lagoons on the 12th. Otherwise, all of the expected resident and migrant ducks are now widespread. Raptor reports included several Ospreys and an adult Bald Eagle at the Masson-Thurso marshes in Quebec on the 16th. Merlins have been observed performing courtship displays in several suburban neighbourhoods, and the female of Ottawa's downtown breeding pair of Peregrine Falcons is now evidently incubating 4 eggs on the west side of the Crowne Plaza hotel. Five SANDHILL CRANES were in the cornfields on the west side of Milton Rd. on the 13th and 10 American Coots were back at the Alfred sewage lagoons on the 12th. New shorebirds reported this past week were both Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs and a Spotted Sandpiper at the Embrun lagoons. A late 2nd-spring Glaucous Gull was on Mud Lake in Britannia on the 13th and a late Iceland Gull, also a 2nd-spring bird, was at the Moodie Dr. pond on the 17th. A male Three-toed Woodpecker reported from the Britannia woods near the southwest corner of Mud Lake on the 16th was not relocated the next day. A very early Veery was reported from a backyard in Manotick on the 16th as well. The 1st reports of Northern Rough-winged Swallow and Barn Swallow came in during the past week, and a Brown Thrasher was singing on the Carp Ridge along the Thomas Dolan Parkway on the 16th. Other passerine reports of interest included Yellow-rumped and Pine Warblers at Britannia this past weekend, and a Pine Warbler was reported from the Jack Pine Trail on the 16th as well. The 1st reports of Chipping Sparrow and White-throated Sparrow have begun to come in since the 11th, and a flock of 40 Rusty Blackbirds were singing on Twin Elm Rd. north of Cambrian Rd. on the 17th. Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript
