Yesterday, Wednesday, May 23, Jack Romanow and I completed a "big day" in the Ottawa-Gatineau area, ranging as far east as Alfred. Birding was excellent (as was the weather!), and we managed to find 140 species. Highlights included: - Snow Goose (1) - Alfred Lagoons - Brant (12) - On the Ottawa River off of the Shirley's Bay boat launch - White-winged Scoter (5) - On the Ottawa River off of the Shirley's Bay boat launch - Black-crowned Night-Heron - On nest at the Deschenes Rapids on the QC side (although barely visible through leaves)(1) and Marais aux Grenouillettes (1) - Glossy Ibis - Winchester Sewage Lagoon - possibly the same bird that was at Casselman on May 20? Unfortunately the bird flew off and disappeared to the south at around 2:45pm - 12 species of shorebirds at the Winchester Sewage Lagoon including: Black-bellied Plover (5), Solitary Sandpiper (1), Pectoral Sandpiper (1), Dunlin (2), Wilson's Phalarope (6) and Red-necked Phalarope (1) - Northern Saw-Whet Owl (1) - calling in the Richmond Fen area at the railway tracks on Kettles Rd. - Marbled Godwit (1)- Alfred Sewage Lagoon - in the east cell, still present when we left at around 4:30pm - Whip-poor-will (1) - calling on Vance's Sideroad at Constance Creek - 4 species of vireo, including Philadelphia (Champlain Lookout in Gatineau Park) and Blue-Headedon (Highway 315 near Lac la Blanche, QC) - Sedge Wren (1) - calling at night in fields on the east side of March Valley Rd. at the intersection with Klondike Rd. - 18 species of warbler, including Northern Parula, Bay-breasted (both in Gatineau Park), Mourning (Highway 315 near Lac la Blanche, QC) and Wilson's (Britannia Conservation Area) - 10 species of sparrow, including Field, Vesper, Grasshopper and Clay-coloured (Ottawa Airport) and a couple of late White-crowned (Gatineau Park, Marais aux Grenouillettes) Please contact me if you want directions to any of these locations. David Britton OttawaFrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 24 12:23:16 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.81]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 832E4638E0 for <[email protected]>; Thu, 24 May 2007 12:23:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 35120 invoked from network); 24 May 2007 16:23:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@74.96.96.139 with login) by smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 May 2007 16:23:16 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: f6u1YfoVM1mcHWH7u1sACXnh2b6gGoM1YRNGAmmoPmSoB1nD83VVHvrPcrsZBJMX7w-- User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.0.6 Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 12:17:00 -0400 From: Wayne Renaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Whimbels continue to move through Colonel Sam Smith Park. X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:23:17 -0000
Inspite of reduced visibliity due to morning fog and smog a total of 1641 Whimbrels were recorded between 5:30 and 11:30 am. This brings the 2-day total for the Etobicoke waterfront to 4533, a very significant number considering that the eastern arctic population which follows the Atlantic/Great Lakes routing in spring is estimated at 40,000!!!!) Also notable was a Little Gull. There were at least 15 people who helped spot and count the birds, among them Jean Irons and Richard Joos on who's behalf I post these results. Directions: Kipling runs directly into Colonel Sam Smith Park and adjacent Humber College Lakeshore campus, located west of Islington and east of Brown's Line south of the Q.E.W. Wayne Renaud, Richard Joos & Jean Irons 905.274.7103 or 905.278.5813 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 24 12:29:04 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (unknown [209.85.132.240]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428E6638FC for <[email protected]>; Thu, 24 May 2007 12:29:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d33so70731and for <[email protected]>; Thu, 24 May 2007 09:28:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s¾ta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=nOmkCr7C9NUnlpDgp46qZ5cKW9URB/oS8jba0ioeL5T7Dv5d9F+gt8kxXEb68P6vk/H2viVc4YV/PSCBJusSPg6+l7/eR8VYqIJi/0U5RHv+MSPNeCPEom/qZ764u3Pxz/t+UesXW4IMObuzOE6RsM81P9mO+XeyxKqwUM8SoX4DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s¾ta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=O6ps18ks+dXJUdsmoMdnUZtAXe3OVECBcpVeyx9rgg0LjjEjvtRCd0iF56uuE4RsdXuevl9lQD5blKp9LFcwAJew3aDOB8H2suawaNOjoebCbQtGm5+A5uHNeSc75CVpKYFpGvfNr94907zeZQ07rG07JZpnGikrz/q2eJXnLRUReceived: by 10.100.227.5 with SMTP id z5mr1706721ang.1180024138436; Thu, 24 May 2007 09:28:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.194.14 with HTTP; Thu, 24 May 2007 09:28:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 12:28:58 -0400 From: "Mike Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds]Yellow Rail - Long Point Provincial Park, Sedge Wren No X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:29:04 -0000 Dear Fellow Birders, This morning I found a Yellow Rail calling in Long Point Provincial Park. It was heard calling around 7:10am, however I briefly checked again around 9:30am and had no luck, this evening may be a better bet. A check on the Sedge Wren mid-morning did not turn it up, so it may have moved on. Directions: Exit the 401 at Hwy 59 near Woodstock and follow it south down to Lake Erie. The provincial park is at the end of Hwy 59. Once you are in the park follow the road as it winds along the marsh on the north side. As you get towards the back of the main camping area there is a concrete monument on the north side of the road, and about 10m to the west of it there is a mowed path leading into the marsh. Follow this about 250m out into the marsh. Eventually you will see cattails paralleling the path on the east side and the bird was heard near tire tracks that go into the cattails, there is also orange flagging tape on the path near this location. Mike Boyd Port Rowan, Ontario On 5/23/07, Mike Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Fellow Birders, > This morning I found a Sedge Wren singing in Long Point Provincial Park at > the 'traditional' location for them here. I originally found him singing > around 6:10am and was last heard around 10:40am. A Least Bittern was also > heard here this morning. > The Bird Studies Canada ponds have also been good lately with a > White-rumped Sandpiper yesterday and a Wilson's Phalarope the day before. > Directions: > Exit the 401 at Hwy 59 near Woodstock and follow it south down to Lake > Erie. The BSC ponds are just east of the intersection with Front Rd, before > you cross the causeway. The provincial park is at the end of Hwy 59. Once > you are in the park follow the road as it winds along the marsh past the > boat launch. On the north side of the road there will be two large ponds > that have a grass path mowed around them, the bird was singing in the grassy > field to the east of these ponds. > > Mike Boyd > Port Rowan, Ontario > -- Mike Boyd Long Point Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Fund From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 24 13:37:34 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts5.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F14A6348B for <[email protected]>; Thu, 24 May 2007 13:37:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from acerc28991bd48 ([69.157.38.253]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.netSMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Thu, 24 May 2007 13:37:34 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Bob and Glenda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ontbirds" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 13:37:31 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Subject: [Ontbirds]Whimbrels at Port Credit X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 17:37:34 -0000 Further to Wayne's post, Jim Heslop, Glenda Slessor and I watched two flocks - 68 and 40 birds) flying off Saddington Park on the east side of the harbour at Port Credit. These were at 7:20 and 8:10 this morning and likely were also counted off Colonel Sam Park. It is interesting that only on occasion to small numbers of Whimbrel stray as far as the western end of Lake Ontario at Hamilton, generally when conditions are foggy or there are strong easterlies. The much reduced numbers at Port Credit fit this pattern. Their tradition is to head off to the NW from about Toronto. My sense, although I have no specific data to back this up, is that those birds that move west along the north shore of Lake Erie also head NW before or at Point Pelee and that they are much scarcer at the extreme west end of that lake also. Directions: QEW to Mississauga Road; south until you reach the lake. Bob Curry Bob Curry and Glenda Slessor 30-3115 New Street Burlington, ON L7N 3T6 905-637-2022 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
