- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 29 May 2005 * ONOT0505.29
- Birds mentioned Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Brant Northern Shoveler American Wigeon White-winged Scoter Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Semipalmated Plover Lesser Yellowlegs Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Lesser Black-backed Gull ARCTIC TERN Black-billed Cuckoo Ruby-throated Hummingbird Eastern Wood-Pewee Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Sedge Wren Marsh Wren Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush YELLOW-THROATED VIREO Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Magnolia Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Mourning Warbler Wilson's Warbler Eastern Towhee Lincoln's Sparrow - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 29 May 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 - MAY 29 2005 AT 7:30 PM This is Chris Lewis reporting. Spring migration continues to progress pretty much on schedule, with many of the later species now arriving or moving through. An unusual sighting today May 29th was of a Common Loon fishing in Mud Lake at Britannia. Another Common Loon was seen off Britannia Point the same day. A Pied-billed Grebe also seen and heard on Mud Lake on the 25th and 27th. On the evening of the 28th a flock of Brant was heard flying north over Carlington, and a group of 48 White-winged Scoters were on the Ottawa River at Shirley's Bay along with a pair of Red-breasted Mergansers on the 27th. At the St. Albert sewage lagoons on the 28th there were 12 male and 1 female Ruddy Duck along with a few Northern Shoveler and American Wigeon, 6 Semipalmated Plover, 1 Lesser Yellowlegs, 15 Least Sandpiper, 1 White-rumped Sandpiper, 5 Dunlin and 9 Short- billed Dowitcher. At the Embrun lagoons the same day, 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper was with approx. 30 Least Sandpiper, another 9 Short-billed Dowitcher, and 9 Wilson's Phalarope. On the 25th 2 Red-necked Phalaropes were reported from the Casselman sewage lagoons. On the morning of the 27th 3 ARCTIC TERNS were seen flying over the Ottawa River at Constance Bay, and a Lesser Black-backed Gull was at the large pond on the east side of Moodie Dr. south of the Trail Rd. landfill on the 25th. Black-billed Cuckoos were heard at Shirley's Bay and Huntmar Dr. on the 29th, and the 1st report to the Bird Status Line of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds came from Huntmar Dr. on the 25th. Songbird migration has thinned out, with most local breeders now on territory. Eastern Wood-Pewee and Alder and Willow Flycatcher are now widespread, the YELLOW-THROATED VIREO along the railroad tracks east of Huntmar Dr. was most recently heard on the 26th, Sedge Wrens were heard in the Richmond Fen at dusk on the 25th, and Marsh Wrens were heard at Shirley's Bay and the Thomas Dolan Parkway this past weekend. Several Swainson's Thrushes were noted at Britannia over the past several days, and a large number were heard migrating over the Ottawa River at Britannia Bay on the evening of the 28th along with at least one Gray-cheeked Thrush. Other later-spring migrants over the past week included Tennessee, Magnolia, Blackpoll, and Wilson's Warbler, along with Mourning Warbler and the common breeding species were found in all the appropriate local habitats. Several Golden-winged Warblers continue to be seen and heard, singing both Golden-winged and Blue-winged song-types, along the railroad tracks east of Huntmar Dr. on the 29th. The 1st report of Eastern Towhee in the Carp Hills along Thomas Dolan Parkway was on the 27th, and 2 male Lincoln's Sparrows were again singing on territory at the Mer Bleue boardwalk on the 28th. Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript
