A Belted Kingfisher was present to-day along Sawmill Creek, North of the Walkley OCTranspo Transit Station. A report in the Ottawa Citizen during the weekend had mentioned a similar observation without saying where along the Creek. While I was waiting for my car which was being serviced at a garage in the area, I took a walk to the OCTranspo station where sightings were made in previous years. After about 20 minutes, the bird came from the South, perched a few moments and resumed its flight downstream in the North direction. It was 11:30.
I recuperated my car after lunch and decided to go to take a walk on Mory Street, in Blossom Park, were a Northern Mockingbird had been observed on the Christmas Count December 18. I had visited the place a few times without success, but there are lots of birds there and it is always a pleasant place to visit. After walking some 30 minutes in the area, I heard 3 loud check. I turned around and saw a Northern Mockingbird taking off from a short cedar edge; it perched a moment and flew across the bushy vacant lot to a tall cedar edge on the West side of the lot. I di not see it again. This is probably the very same place where the bird was observed on the Christmas Count. Good luck and good birding! Langis Sirois, Ottawa Directions for the Kingfisher: Take Bank St. in the South direction and go to Walkley. Park somewhere on Bank near Walkley (there is a small shopping centre at the NW corner of Bank and Walkley); you cannot park on Walkley near Sawmill Creek. Walk a few hundred meters West on Walkley; the creek runs under Walkley through a tunnel at the OCTranspo transit way station. You can walk down the bank to the creek on each side of Walkley (walking along the transit way is prohibited, but you don't have to). Directions for the Mockingbird: Continue on Bank St. in the South direction. After Hunt Club Rd., turn right on Albion and drive about one kilometer to Mory St on the right. Drive to almost the end of Mory. You will see a vacant lot on the South side. That is the place for the Mockingbird and numerous other birds (a White-throated Sparrow was present about 2 weeks ago). 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