- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 28 August 2006 * ONOT0608.28
- Birds mentioned Pied-billed Grebe Great Egret LITTLE BLUE HERON Green Heron Green-winged Teal Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Peregrine Falcon Ruddy Turnstone Stilt Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher American Woodcock Lesser Black-backed Gull Black Tern Common Nighthawk Olive-sided Flycatcher Blue-headed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Cerulean Warbler - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 28 August 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 @ 7:00 PM, MONDAY AUGUST 28, 2006. This is Chris Lewis reporting. A very active week for migration prompts another update from Ottawa. Warblers were the top story in the past few days, with 24 species now reported mainly from the Britannia Conservation Area since the 25th. The discovery of a female or immature Cerulean Warbler at Shirley's Bay wood's on the 27th enhances this excellent total, and the only "expected" species still to be reported this season are Orange-crowned and Mourning. Also at Britannia on the 25th were an adult Red-shouldered Hawk, a very cooperative Olive-sided Flycatcher and 4 species of vireos including Blue-headed and Philadelphia. On the 27th at Britannia highlights in the rain included 13 species of warblers, a Green Heron, an immature Cooper's Hawk....and 2 River Otters, and adult and a juvenile, catching catfish in Mud Lake. A Great Egret and a Black Tern were at Shirley's Bay the same day. The local shorebird total is now 19 species for the month of August, with American Woodcock added to the previous list of 18. The water on the Ottawa River has risen again, with few shorebirds at Shirley's Bay on the 27th but there is still good habitat at Andrew Haydon Park. At the large quarry pond on the east side of Moodie Dr south of Trail Rd on the 27th, there were 2 Great Egrets and increasing numbers of Ring-necked Ducks, a few Lesser Scaup, and 46 Pied-billed Grebes as well as 10 Stilt Sandpipers. On the 25th a Ruddy Turnstone was at the east end of Andrew Haydon Park and 6 Short-billed Dowitchers were on the west side of the Shirley's Bay causeway. Peregrine Falcon sightings included an adult feeding on a gull carcass at Fallowfield Rd. near Richmond Rd and an immature bird unsuccessfully hunting Green-winged Teal at Shirley's Bay; both were seen on the 27th. On the evening of the 26th, approx. 20 Common Nighthawks were seen flying over the Britannia area, and on the 24th, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls were observed in the Deschenes Rapids and another was in a field near Carling and Rifle Rds. There have been no recent reports of the LITTLE BLUE HERON at the High Falls Conservation Area in Casselman. Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript
