- RBA
* Ontario
* Ottawa/Gatineau
* 20 May 2007
* ONOT0705.20
- Birds mentioned
Snow Goose
Brant
GLOSSY IBIS
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
WHOOPING CRANE
Semipalmated Plover
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Black Tern
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
House Wren
Marsh Wren
BLUE-WINGED WARBLER
Orange-crowned Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Eastern Towhee
Clay-colored Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Bobolink
- Transcript
hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
date: 20 May 2007
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 & transcriber: Chris Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
internet: Gordon Pringle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
THE OTTAWA FIELD-NATURALISTS' BIRD STATUS LINE - 8:30 PM 20 May, 2007
This is Chris Lewis reporting.
As forecast, some dynamic weather did occur this week, several more migrants
arrived, and a few rarities dropped in for good measure.
The most exciting discovery was a radio-tagged WHOOPING CRANE from
Wisconsin in a field along Timm Rd. west of Moodie Dr. in Bells Corners on the
16th. On the same day, a GLOSSY IBIS flew over Corkstown Rd., heading toward
a marsh near the Nepean Campground. Neither of these birds has been
subsequently reported. However, on the 20th, an adult GLOSSY IBIS
was found in
the SE cell of the Casselman sewage lagoons and is hopefully still present.
Another rarity occurred on the 19th - for the 1st time in modern hockey history
the Ottawa Senators made it into the Stanley Cup finals.
On the 15th and 16th, a large number of Brant flew by Britannia and ended up
on the Ottawa River at Remic rapids where an estimated 1000+ birds lingered
briefly during strong NE winds and rain on the 16th. The 1st report
of Black Tern
in the marshes west of Masson, Quebec came in on the 15th. The 1st hatch of a
Peregrine Falcon chick on the Crowne Plaza hotel was reported on the 16th.
Both a Merlin and a Peregrine Falcon were hunting birds at the Winchester
sewage lagoons where the shorebird habitat is excellent, and 2 very late (for
Ottawa) Lesser Snow Geese were here on the 20th. The Embrun sewage
lagoons also have good habitat and the Casselman lagoon is habitat is the
best it's been in many years. Eleven species of Shorebirds were collectively
reported from all 3 of these lagoons from the 15th through the 20th, including
several Semipalmated Plovers and many Least Sandpipers, the 1st
White-rumped Sandpipers, Dunlin and Short-billed Dowitchers, and numbers of
Wilson's Phalaropes who were joined at Embrun by a Red-necked Phalarope on
the 20th.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Chimney Swift, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Eastern
Kingbird, Alder and Willow Flycatcher, House Wren, Marsh Wren, Scarlet
Tanager, Eastern Towhee and Bobolink are all back, right on time.
New warbler arrivals this week were Orange-crowned, Cape May and Wilson's,
bringing our total of expected migrants and breeders to 25 speciesÂ…and a
26th was an unexpected BLUE-WINGED WARBLER banded at the Innis Point Bird
Observatory on the 15th.
Nine species of sparrows were found south of the international airport on the
20th including the 1st report of Clay-colored and Grasshopper.
Thank you - Good BirdingÂ…and Go SENS GO!
- End transcript
