My wife Karen saw this bird on Monday, October 30th. She had no binoculars. She remarked that it looked like a female Ruby-Throat, implying no coppery colour. She got good looks at the bird from as close as 3m away. The bird was seen after two consecutive days of very strong (up to 80 km/h gusts) wind from the NW, then from the W. It truly was a very late bird, but as far as the species goes, it's probably a Ruby-throated. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 1 12:30:23 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from mx4-1.spamtrap.magma.ca (mx4-1.spamtrap.magma.ca [209.217.78.176]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF7363BE0 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:30:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail1.magma.ca (mail1.internal.magma.ca [10.0.10.11]) kA1HULQT018396 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:30:21 -0500 Received: from oemcomputer.magma.ca (ottawa-hs-209-217-124-117.d-ip.magma.ca [209.217.124.117]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail1.magma.ca (Magma's Mail Server) with ESMTP id kA1HUInG022450 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:30:20 -0500 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:31:54 -0500 To: [email protected] From: Gordon Pringle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-magma-MailScanner-Information: Magma Mailscanner Service X-magma-MailScanner: Clean X-Spam-Status: Subject: [Ontbirds] Ottawa/Gatineau 28Oct06... Greater White-fronted Goose, Cackling Goose X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:30:23 -0000
- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 28 October 2006 * ONOT0610.28 - Birds mentioned Red-throated Loon Common Loon GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE Snow Goose Brant Canada Goose CACKLING GOOSE Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk Common Tern Barred Owl Carolina Wren American Pipit Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 28 October 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 @ 3:30 pm, SATURDAY OCT. 28, 2006 This is Chris Lewis reporting. A week of mixed weather resulted in an interesting mix of birds in the Ottawa area. A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was seen in the farm fields in the Moodie Dr. / Brophy Dr. and Twin Elm area on both the 26th and 27th, a few small flocks of Brant were seen flying over on both days, and up to 5 Cackling Geese and 8 Snow Geese were among the large numbers of Canada Geese and several duck species in the large quarry pond on the east side of Moodie Dr. south of Trail Rd. on the 27th. Also on the 27th, the Ottawa River at Dick Bell and Andrew Haydon Parks hosted 55 Black Scoters (including several adult males), 10 Surf Scoters, a few White- winged Scoters, good numbers of Lesser Scaup along with smaller numbers of Greater Scaup and Common Goldeneye, a single Long- tailed Duck, all 3 species of mergansers, and 2 Red-throated Loons and 3 Common Loons flew over this location. On the 21st, a Rough- legged Hawk was seen at Frank Kenny and Giroux Rd. and individual Bald Eagles were noted flying over the Ottawa River at Petrie Island and near the Champlain Bridge. A Common Tern was still lingering at the west end of Andrew Haydon Park as of the 27th - it is not known if this is an injured bird, but it was still apparently holding its own against the gulls. A Barred Owl was found roosting in an unusual location - Albert Street in the middle of downtown Ottawa - on the afternoon of the 25th. A Carolina Wren was discovered along a trail in the woods west of Mud Lake in the Britannia Conservation area on the 21st. At least 14 Lapland Longspurs were seen on the 26th in the Eagleson / Fallowfield / Shea Rd. area along with several American Pipits and small flocks of Snow Buntings. Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript
