Around 9 a.m. this morning, saw about 30 Snow Geese on the Moose Creek sewage lagoon, along with some Canada Geese.
On McLean Road, East of Hwy 138, saw several Blue Jays and a flock of Snow Buntings. On our way back to Ottawa, meandered between Giroux. Régimbald and Frank Kenny Roads. Saw a Rough-legged Hawk, roughly 100 Snow Buntings and 8 Horned Larks. At the Quarry on the South side of Giroux Road, saw Canada Goose, 4 unidentified ducks (Ruddy?) and a Northern Harrier. Pictures of our sightings are available from Bob Boisvert, my neighbour, at: http://www.pbase.com/boisvert/28dec2006 <http://www.pbase.com/boisvert/28dec2006> To get to the Moose Creek lagoon, courtesy of Jacques Bouvier: >From Hwy 417 East of Casselman, take exit 58 and proceed south on Hwy 138. At >the third intersection, turn right on McLean Rd. Go about 2.5 km and turn >right on Valley Rd. Go about 600 meters and turn left on 8th Rd. The lagoon is >on the left of the road, just past the railway tracks. To get to Frank Kenney Rd, courtesy of Kim Zbitnew: Exit 88 from Hwy 417, North on Rockdale Road about 5 km, left on Russel Rd about 2 km and right (North) on Frank Kenney to Régimbald Rd. This e-mail originates from the City of Ottawa e-mail system. Any distribution, use or copying of this e-mail or the information it contains by other than the intended recipient(s) is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify me at the telephone number shown above or by return e-mail and delete this communication and any copy immediately. Thank you. Le présent courriel a été expédié par le système de courriels de la Ville d'Ottawa. Toute distribution, utilisation ou reproduction du courriel ou des renseignements qui s'y trouvent par une personne autre que son destinataire prévu est interdite. Si vous avez reçu le message par erreur, veuillez m'en aviser par téléphone (au numéro précité) ou par courriel, puis supprimer sans délai la version originale de la communication ainsi que toutes ses copies. Je vous remercie de votre collaboration. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 28 19:32:21 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from ciaccess.com (smtp.ciaccess.com [209.216.133.240]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895C763479 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:32:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from computer (unverified [209.216.149.56]) by smtp.ciaccess.com (SurgeMail 3.6f5) with ESMTP id 48570394 for multiple; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:34:18 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Steve Charbonneau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]>, "larry cornelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "pete chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "tom chatterton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:31:53 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r0632104 X-Authenticated-User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ontbirds]Wallaceburg CBC results X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:32:21 -0000 Hi Everyone, The 21st Wallaceburg, ON CBC took place on Wednesday, Dec. 27. The 20 observers turned up a total of 87 species, the second highest total ever (89 species found last year), with the average for the past 10 years being 80. For the first time ever, we did not add any new species to the count (128 cumulative). We set 7 new high individual totals, 3 tied highs and, to this point, 4 Count Week species. A short summary follows: New Highs: GREAT BLUE HERON 10 (7 in 2003) TUNDRA SWAN 888 (79 in 2003) NORTHERN SHOVELER 2 (1 in 1999; only the 2nd record) NORTHERN HARRIER 28 (27 in 2003) AMERICAN COOT 2 (1 in 4 previous years) YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER 2 (1 in 2 previous years; first since 1995) EASTERN BLUEBIRD 21 (20 in 2002) Tied highs: WHITE-WINGED SCOTER 1 (only the 4th record but 3rd year in a row), BALD EAGLE 1, MERLIN 1 (2nd record; 1 in 1997) Other Notables: 2 PEREGRINE FALCONS, 1 KILLDEER, 1 ICELAND GULL, 1 PILEATED WOODPECKER (2nd record; 2 in 2003), 48 TUFTED TITMICE, 1 CHIPPING SPARROW (4th record) Count Week Species to date: WOOD DUCK, RUDDY DUCK (would have been new, darnit), TURKEY VULTURE, YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER There were NO NORTHERN BOBWHITE found on Walpole Island despite 6 observers walking for many party hours; the lack of snow hurt as well. We've only found them in 3 of the past 9 years; the last time was 2003 (6). I'm afraid this count species will be a rumour in the future. A special thanks to Wendy and Larry Cornelis for once again providing their house for the compilation and for the wonderful meal. Steve Charbonneau Erie Beach in Chatham-Kent, Ontario [EMAIL PROTECTED]
