The garganey was sighted from the steel bridge across the east branch of Corbett Creek at 9:45 a.m.
To access the site, exit 401 at Thickson Road. Travel south under the railway to Wentworth Street (First traffic lights south of the railway) Turn left (east) for about a kilometre. Turn right (south)on Forbes to where it intersects the Waterfront Trail at the entrance to Corbett Creek Pollution Control Plant (There's a stop sign at the entrance) Park (there's not a lot of parking) and walk east (left) along the waterfront trail to a steel bridge over the marsh. Dennis Barry & Margaret Carney 338 Crystal Beach Blvd. Whitby, Ontario L1N 9Z7 905-725-2116 From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri May 5 11:56:03 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from mx1.magmacom.com (mx1.magmacom.com [206.191.0.217]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E9C363B2D for <[email protected]>; Fri, 5 May 2006 11:55:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail3.magma.ca (mail3.magma.ca [206.191.0.221]) by mx1.magmacom.com (8.13.6/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k45Ftmh2021581; Fri, 5 May 2006 11:55:49 -0400 Received: from oemcomputer.magma.ca (ottawa-hs-209-217-93-72.d-ip.magma.ca [209.217.93.72]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail3.magma.ca (Magma's Mail Server) with ESMTP id k45FtitQ003946; Fri, 5 May 2006 11:55:46 -0400 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 11:56:02 -0400 To: [email protected] From: Gordon Pringle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: [Ontbirds]Ottawa/Gatineau 03May06... Louisiana Waterthrush, Great Egret, Greater White-fronted Goose X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 15:56:03 -0000 - RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 03 May 2006 * ONOT0605.03 - Birds mentioned GREAT EGRET GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE Snow Goose Red-breasted Merganser Broad-winged Hawk Ruffed Grouse Wild Turkey Virginia Rail Lesser Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Dunlin Barred Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Whip-poor-will Chimney Swift Red-headed Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Eastern Kingbird Winter Wren Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Northern Mockingbird Warbling Vireo Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH White-crowned Sparrow Baltimore Oriole - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 03 May 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] THE OFNC BIRD STATUS LINE @ 8:00 pm, WEDNESDAY MAY 3, 2006. This is Chris Lewis reporting. The prize this week was a very vocal male LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH discovered on May 2nd along the Waterfall Trail below the MacKenzie King Estate in Gatineau Park - it was still present this morning May 3rd. A GREAT EGRET is still faithful to the Rideau River opposite the Billings Bridge shopping centre as of today. A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was seen yet again, flying into the large pond on the east side of Moodie Dr. south of Trail Rd. on the evening of April 30th, and a single Snow Goose and a male Red- breasted Merganser were still present in this pond on the 30th as well. Two new Northern Mockingbird reports also came in - one on May 1st in an area of spruce trees between the Gloucester shopping centre parking lot and the OC Transpo bus transitway, and another on the 2nd at the corner of Old Montreal Rd. and Frank Kenny Rd. A group of 10 Wild Turkeys were at the corner of Old Montreal Rd. and Trim Rd. on April 27th, Virginia Rails were located at Petrie Island on the 27th and in the Constance Creek marsh on the 30th. More shorebird arrivals in various locations this week included Lesser Yellowlegs, Spotted Sandpiper and Dunlin, and pairs of Upland Sandpiper were reported from Wall Rd. at the "S"-curve west of Trim Rd. north of Navan on the 2nd, and also on Murphy Side Rd. near 2nd Line Rd. in Dunrobin on the 3rd. Two Barred Owls and a Northern Saw-whet Owl were found in the Munster area on the night of the 30th, another Barred Owl was at the LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH location on the 3rd, the 1st local Whip-poor-will was reported from Clarence-Cambridge Rd. northeast of Limoges on the evening of the 1st, and 2 adult Red-headed Woodpeckers were seen again at the old burn site along Whistler St. in Constance Bay on May 1st. A couple of reports of recent visits to Gatineau Park indicated that this continues to be a great location to see and hear birds on breeding territory, including Broad-winged Hawk, Ruffed Grouse, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Hermit Thrush, Winter Wren and several species of warblers. Other new arrivals this week included Chimney Swift, Warbling Vireo and Baltimore Oriole at the Britannia Conservation Area on the 2nd, an early Eastern Kingbird at the Marais aux Grenouillettes west of Masson, Quebec, the same day, and a very early Swainson's Thrush at Britannia on April 30th. The 1st reports of Nashville, Yellow, Black-throated Green, Black-and- white Warbler, Ovenbird and Northern Waterthrush also came in this week, mainly from Britannia and Gatineau Park, and the 1st White- crowned Sparrows were noted on the 2nd at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden. Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript
