- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 30 July 2007 * ONOT0707.30
- Birds mentioned Canada Goose AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN Black-crowned Night-Heron Bald Eagle Northern Goshawk Sandhill Crane Semipalmated Plover Spotted Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Common Tern Yellow-billed Cuckoo Barred Owl Red-headed Woodpecker OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER Yellow-throated Vireo Tennessee Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Cape May Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Northern Waterthrush Scarlet Tanager Lincoln's Sparrow Rose-breasted Grosbeak Baltimore Oriole White-winged Crossbill - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 30 July 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 OFNC BIRD STATUS LINE - 8:00 pm, MONDAY JULY 30, 2007 This is Chris Lewis reporting. Several good reports came in over the past week, mainly indicators of post-breeding dispersal, but also a few surprises. A "odd goose" seen with Canada Geese at Westboro Beach on the Ottawa River on the 21st was most likely a domestic hybrid, based on the observer's description. A photograph of an AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN in adult summer plumage appeared on the Club des Ornithologues de l'Outaouais web site - this bird was evidently at Parc National du Plaisance on the 22nd, but unfortunately no other information was received. Also on the Quebec side, at the Ring-billed Gull colony in the Deschenes rapids, there were 2 juvenile Black-crowned Night-Herons on the 27th, one was at the Casselman sewage lagoons the same day, and on the 29th an adult Bald Eagle flew over the Rockcliffe Parkway. Also in Quebec, north of the 50km circle, 3 Sandhill Cranes were seen near Venosta south of Kazabazua on the 24th. The water on the Ottawa River remains very high, with Spotted Sandpiper the only shorebird species noted at Andrew Haydon Park and other river locations. However the 1st cell at the Almonte sewage lagoons had good habitat on the 28th and shorebirds here included 3 Semipalmated Plovers, 36 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 2 adult Pectoral and 1 adult Stilt Sandpiper, and 4 adult Short-billed Dowitchers. Fourteen adult and 1 juvenile Bonaparte's Gulls were feeding below the Deschenes rapids on the 28th, a single Bonaparte's Gull was at the Casselman lagoons on the 27th, 4 Common Terns were at Andrew Haydon Park also on the 27th and 17 were at Shirley's Bay the following day. A rare-in-Ottawa Yellow-billed Cuckoo came face-to-face with a golfing birder at The Marshes golf course in Kanata on the morning of the 23rd (demonstrating that golf and birding can be compatible summer activities). The pair of Red-headed Woodpeckers at the Constance Bay burn site have at least 2 fledged young - this is their 6th consecutive successful breeding season here. A visit to the Low-Poltimore Rd. at the northern edge of the 50K on the 22nd produced Northern Goshawk and Barred Owl, a surprisingly vocal OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER and a White-winged Crossbill. Two separate visits to the Lac Philippe area of Gatineau Park on the 29th also proved successful - a singing Yellow-throated Vireo was tracked down and well-seen along the Lusk Lake Trail. Along the main trail, 10 warbler species included Cape May and several family groups of Blackburnian Warblers. Other post-breeding warblers species in Gatineau Park as well as along the Ottawa River were Tennessee, Yellow, Bay-breasted, Black-and-white, American Redstart and Northern Waterthrush. A singing male Northern Parula has been present on a property in Carp since the 21st, Lincoln's Sparrows were found in Gatineau Park on the 22nd and 29th, and other songbirds on the move at the Britannia Conservation Area on the 28th included Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Scarlet Tanager and Baltimore Oriole. Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript yet at
