Hello Ontbirders,
Thirteen of us participated in an OFO outing in the
Ottawa area today. We started at Britannia at 7:30
this morning and stopped at Andrew Hayden Park and
Shirleys Bay before finishing at 12:30. Passerine
birding was pretty good at Britannia and most of the
ducks and shorebirds that we saw were at Shirleys Bay.
Our group total for the day was 75 species, about 60
of which were seen by most members of the group. A
list of species seen, along with approximate numbers
follows:
Pied-billed Grebe 4
Double-crested Cormorant 75
Great Egret 2
Great Blue Heron 12
Canada Goose 100
Mallard 100
American Black Duck 12
Green-winged Teal 50
American Wigeon 15
Blue-winged Teal 5
Wood Duck 15
Ring-necked Duck 7
Common Merganser 11
Semipalmated Plover 5
Killdeer 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Spotted Sandpiper 7
Stilt Sandpiper 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 30
Least Sandpiper 6
Bairds Sandpiper 3
Ring-billed Gull 2500
Herring Gull 400
Great Black-backed Gull 80
Turkey Vulture 4
Northern Harrier 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
Coopers Hawk 2
Osprey 2
American Kestrel 1
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 2
Wild Turkey 6
Rock Pigeon 40
Mourning Dove 15
Belted Kingfisher 5
Northern Flicker 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Eastern Kingbird 1
Great-crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Eastern Phoebe 2
Blue Jay 20
American Crow 15
Common Raven 2
Black-capped Chickadee 15
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
American Robin 2
Gray Catbird 1
Brown Thrasher 2
Cedar Waxwing 10
European Starling 250
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Warbling Vireo 3
Philadelphia Vireo 2
Tennessee Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 1
Northern Parula 1
Black-and-white Warbler 2
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 45
Black-throated Green Warbler 12
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 2
Song Sparrow 10
Chipping Sparrow 20
Dark-eyed Junco 1
White-throated Sparrow 15
Common Grackle 2
Scarlet Tanager 3
American Goldfinch 5
Purple Finch 7
House Sparrow 2
If anyone would like details on where we saw specific
species, please contact me directly.
Good birding,
Jeff
Jeff Skevington, Research Scientist
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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