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
Baird’s Sandpiper                       3
Ring-billed Gull                        2500
Herring Gull                            400
Great Black-backed Gull         80
Turkey Vulture                          4
Northern Harrier                        1
Sharp-shinned Hawk                      2
Cooper’s 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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