- RBA
* Ontario
* Ottawa/Gatineau
* 10 September 2007
* ONOT0709.10
- Birds mentioned
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Gadwall
Northern Pintail
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Ruddy Duck
Horned Grebe
Great Egret
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Semipalmated Plover
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Budgerigar
Eastern Screech-Owl
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Carolina Wren
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Canada Warbler
Rusty Blackbird
Pine Siskin
- Transcript
hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
date: 10 September 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 @ 6:00 pm, MONDAY SEPT. 10, 2007
This is Chris Lewis reporting.
Another fairly quiet week but the north winds did have some influence and
a few more birds are beginning to move through. Despite several visits on
an almost daily basis, the Britannia Conservation Area and the woods along
Ottawa River from Britannia Bay to Shirley's Bay produced only a few migrant
songbirds, in small scattered groups in no consistent locations. Blue-headed,
Warbling and Red-eyed Vireos can usually be found, 2 Philadelphia Vireos
were at Britannia on the 8th, and a Carolina Wren was singing on "the ridge"
on the morning of the 9th. The warbler count is now up to 19 species for the
season - the most recent reports included Northern Parula, Magnolia,
Black-throated Green, Blackburnian, Bay-breasted, Blackpoll and Canada,
but even the Yellow-rumped numbers have been rather thin. Two Rusty
Blackbirds at the Richmond Conservation Area on Eagleson Rd. were new
for the season, and a Pine Siskin appeared at the east end of Andrew
Haydon Park on the 9th as well.
In recent raptor reports, a Northern Harrier, a Cooper's Hawk, a Peregrine
Falcon and a Merlin continue to keep the shorebirds on their toes at Shirley's
Bay, and a Peregrine was also reported as seen on a downtown building at
the corner of Albert and Lyon Streets on the morning of the 10th. The
Richmond CA (former sewage lagoons) have surprisingly good shorebird
habitat and are worth checking in addition to the traditional Ottawa River
areas. Ten species of shorebirds were here on the 9th including approx. a
dozen Semipalmated Plovers, 1 Greater and 60 Lesser Yellowlegs, 1 Solitary,
6 Semipalmated, 1 Least, 2 Baird's and 2 Pectoral Sandpipers. Shirley's Bay on
the 8th had 3 Baird's and 1 Stilt Sandpipers and a Ruddy Turnstone. Two
Sanderlings were at the east end of Andrew Haydon on the 8th, and 4 Great
Egrets were on the west side of Shirley's Bay causeway the same day.
A sign of things to come were 6 Snow Geese at the large quarry pond on
Moodie Dr. south of Trail Rd. on the afternoon of the 9th, and more Canada
Geese and other waterbirds seem to be gathering here now later in the day
- 5 Gadwall, 1 male Redhead, several Ring-necked Ducks, approx. 30 Ruddy
Ducks, and a Horned Grebe were noted on the 9th, along with a Bald Eagle
and a lost blue Budgerigar. Other waterfowl reports mentioned a couple of
small groups of Northern Pintail and Lesser Scaup on the Ottawa River. An
adult Lesser Black-backed Gull was at Andrew Haydon on the morning of
the 9th and 5 adults were in a field along Barnsdale Rd. off Moodie Dr. the
same day. And finally, back on the 2nd an Eastern Screech Owl was heard
in Forest Park, Embrun.
Thank you - Good Birding!
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