- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 30 January 2006 * ONOT0601.30
- Birds mentioned Golden Eagle Merlin GYRFALCON Snowy Owl Barred Owl GREAT GRAY OWL BOREAL CHICKADEE American Robin Northern Mockingbird Cedar Waxwing Fox Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Common Redpoll HOARY REDPOLL Pine Siskin - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 30 January 2006 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 - DDD, MMM dd 2005 AT t:tt xM THE OFNC BIRD STATUS LINE @ 9:30 PM, MONDAY JANUARY 30, 2006. This is Chris Lewis reporting. Another week of weird winter weather, with a mixed bag of both winter and spring species reported in the Ottawa-Gatineau area. A Merlin was seen on Old Montreal Rd. east of Trim Rd. on the 29th, an immature Snowy Owl was on the ice of the Ottawa River at the Britannia Yacht Club on the 29th, and a Cedar Waxwing was with a group of approx. 10 American Robins along the north side of Cassels St. opposite Mud Lake in Britannia on both the 28th and 29th. At least 1 Red-winged Blackbird was with approx. 10 Brown- headed Cowbirds on Boundary Rd. north of Russell Rd. on the 29th. The BOREAL CHICKADEE was still in the vicinity of #23 Manitou St. in Forest Park east of Embrun on the 28th, and although the Yellow-headed Blackbird at this property has not been reported since the 23rd, it may very well still be around. The Northern Mockingbird in North Gower was seen again in a shrub near the road on the property of 6838 McCordick Rd. on the 28th - this bird's appearances are still evidently quite random, and it is not associated to a feeder; please do not enter the properties in this neighbourhood. A Fox Sparrow was on a property in Chelsea, Quebec on the 24th, several Pine Siskins have been reported since the 22nd from a variety of locations, along with Common Redpolls, and a HOARY REDPOLL visited a feeder in Manotick on the 29th. Birds that were reported earlier in the week, but not subsequently, included a grey-phase GYRFALCON on the Quebec side along Hwy 148 west of Breckenridge on the 22nd, two separate reports of adult Golden Eagles flying over the Eardley escarpment of the Gatineau hills, seen from Steel Line Rd. on the 22nd and 24th, a Barred Owl at the northwest corner of the trail around the feeders behind the Canadian Museum of Nature on Pink Rd., Quebec on the 22nd, and a GREAT GRAY OWL along Rte. 300 in Limoges east of Ottawa on the 22nd as well. Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript
