- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 30 July 2006 * ONOT0607.30
- Birds mentioned Pied-billed Grebe GREAT EGRET Gadwall Osprey PEREGRINE FALCON SANDHILL CRANE Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper RED-NECKED PHALAROPE Bonaparte's Gull COMMON TERN RED-HEADED WOODPECKER Sedge Wren - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 30 July 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 @ 7:30 pm, SUNDAY JULY 30, 2006. This is Chris Lewis reporting. A very mixed bag of bird reports this week, with more evidence of southward migration, some mid-summer breeding activity, and post- breeding dispersal. On the 28th, at the large quarry pond on the east side of Moodie Dr. south of Trail Rd., a female Gadwall was seen with 8 very small young. Also present here were at least 29 Pied-billed Grebes, a single GREAT EGRET, and an adult Bonaparte's Gull. And adult and juvenile Osprey and a Merlin were at Shirley's Bay on the 29th, and a pair of SANDHILL CRANES flushed up from the marsh along the Mer Bleue boardwalk on the 23rd. Twelve species of shorebirds were reported over the weekend, mainly from the Ottawa River at Andrew Haydon Park and Shirley's Bay. Numbers of most species have noticeably increased since last week, including Semipalmated Plover, Killdeer, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Solitary, Semipalmated and Least Sandpipers. New arrivals on the 29th were Pectoral Sandpipers on the extensive mudflats at Shirley's Bay. Another good location for shorebirds, especially Lesser Yellowlegs, was the High Falls Conservation in Casselman, and an adult RED-NECKED PHALAROPE was at the St. Albert sewage lagoons on the 29th as well. Several observers who visited Andrew Haydon Park and Shirley's Bay over the past week reported many COMMON TERNS, especially juveniles loudly begging for fish from the adults. RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were noted in the Pakenham area - 3 adults were seen in a woodlot at the southwest corner of Shaw Rd. and Pakenham Rd. (12 Concession North) on the 23rd, and a single adult was seen along the Mississippi River between Pakenham and Galetta on the 29th. A previously well-known colony of Sedge Wrens is evidently still present along Torbolton Ridge Rd. At least 3 were seen and heard in a field adjacent to # 4104 Torbolton Ridge Rd. on the morning of the 30th. Finally, the most recent reports from the downtown Ottawa PEREGRINE FALCON Watch indicate that the single male fledgling appears to be flying very well and is holding his own in the glass & concrete jungle! Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript
