- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 03 September 2006 * ONOT0609.03
- Birds mentioned Double-crested Cormorant Least Bittern Great Egret Black-crowned Night-Heron Wood Duck Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Broad-winged Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Semipalmated Plover Lesser Yellowlegs Ruddy Turnstone Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Red-necked Phalarope Bonaparte's Gull Common Tern Great Horned Owl Least Flycatcher American Crow Carolina Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Philadelphia Vireo Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Mourning Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-breasted Grosbeak - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 03 September 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 @ 6:30 pm, SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 2006 This is Chris Lewis reporting. Once again, most of the past week's bird reports came from the Britannia Conservation Area and the Ottawa River from Andrew Haydon Park to Shirley's Bay. The river has gone down again, exposing good feeding habitat for waterfowl and shorebirds. On Sept. 2nd, good numbers of ducks were seen on the west side of the Shirley's Bay causeway as well as beyond the 2nd island, including Wood Duck, Gadwall, Blue-winged Teal, Northern Shoveler, Green- winged Teal and Hooded Merganser. A Northern Pintail was feeding in the Deschenes rapids on the 2nd and several Common Mergansers were here as well. Over 600 Double-crested Cormorants, possibly a record high number for the Ottawa Valley, were counted in several large gatherings from the Deschenes rapids to Shirley's Bay on the 2nd, and 9 species of shorebirds were present west of the Shirley's Bay causeway the same day, including Semipalmated Plover, Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, 5 Pectoral Sandpipers and 3 Short-billed Dowitchers. The Dowitchers were still present here on the 3rd. The river shore at Andrew Haydon Park hosted a Ruddy Turnstone from Aug. 29th to Sept. 2nd and 3 Red-necked Phalaropes were here on Aug. 30th but have not been seen since then. Up to 7 Wilson's Snipes have been seen among the vegetation on the mud flats at the west end of Andrew Haydon this week. A Least Bittern was seen in the marsh at Thurso, Quebec, on the 29th near the new observation tower. Single Great Egrets were noted at Shirley's Bay on the 30th, as well as at a pond on Earl Armstrong Rd. at High Rd. south of the international airport for 3 days until at least August 31st. Single Black-crowned Night- Herons were at Britannia on the 1st and 2nd, and 3 immature birds were at the Bruce Pit on Cedarview Rd. on the 2nd. In recent raptor reports from Britannia, both a Cooper's Hawk and a Great Horned Owl were being harassed by American Crows in the woods on Sept. 1st and a juvenile Broad-winged Hawk was migrating over on the 2nd. Two juvenile and 1 immature Bald Eagles have been hanging around Shirley's Bay since Aug. 30th., a Northern Harrier and American Kestrel were also seen here on the 2nd, and Merlins are again ubiquitous with sightings from Britannia, Shirley's Bay and Carlington Heights throughout the week. In larid reports, 11 Bonaparte's Gulls and 5 Common Terns were feeding below the Deschenes rapids on the 2nd. Songbird migration continued with high activity, especially at Britannia. Up to 15 species of warblers were still found here on Sept. 2nd, many in good numbers, including Nashville, Northern Parula, Yellow, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Cape May, Black-throated Blue, Yellow-rumped, Blackburnian, Palm, Bay-breasted, Blackpoll and Mourning. Other expected migrants at Britannia and Shirley's Bay on the weekend were Least Flycatcher, Philadelphia Vireo, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Scarlet Tanager and Rose-breasted Grosbeak, and a Carolina Wren was seen along the southwest trail in the Britannia woods near the residential area on Aug. 29th. A reminder re: access to the Shirley's' Bay causeway...this is on Dept. of National Defence property. Please call the Range Control Office at 613-991-5740 for permission to bird on the causeway. Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript
