- RBA
* Ontario
* Ottawa/Gatineau
* 19 October 2007
* ONOT0710.19
- Birds mentioned
Snow Goose
ROSS'S GOOSE
Brant
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Red-necked Grebe
EARED GREBE
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Northern Goshawk
Rough-legged Hawk
SANDHILL CRANE
Black-bellied Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Sanderling
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Thayer's Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Northern Shrike
American Crow
Carolina Wren
Eastern Bluebird
Common Yellowthroat
American Tree Sparrow
Snow Bunting
Pine Siskin
Evening Grosbeak
- Transcript
hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
date: 19 October 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, 5:00 pm, FRIDAY OCT. 19, 2007
This is Chris Lewis reporting.
A lot of interesting bird activity occurred this past week, so here's
the latest
before this weekend's 13th annual Ottawa-Gatineau Fall Bird Count....
A juvenile ROSS'S GOOSE discovered at the Alfred sewage lagoons on the 15th
was re-found on the 16th, in a field 10 km from the lagoons. It was
associating with 30 Snow Geese as well as Canada Geese. A group of 26
Brant and up to 3 Cackling Geese were seen among the hordes of
Canada's on the Ottawa River off Andrew Haydon Park from the 16th to the
18th. Another movement of scoters occurred on the 17th with at least 150
White-winged and 200 Black Scoters (mostly adult males) seen on the river
off Andrew Haydon. Residuals on the 18th included 16 Surf, 18 White-winged
and 2 Black Scoters. Two Red-necked Grebes were on the river at Shirley's
Bay on the 17th, and all 6 of the EARED GREBES at the Alfred sewage lagoons
were still present on the 17th. This group of grebes, extraordinary for eastern
Ontario, was 1st "officially" reported on Oct. 10th, however it has since been
revealed that they have been here since at least Sept. 27th.
Raptor reports included a juvenile Bald Eagle feeding along the shoreline at
Constance Bay on the 17th, several Northern Harriers in various locations,
and 2 separate reports of Rough-legged Hawks - one a light-morph juvenile
that has evidently been hanging around near the Alfred lagoons since Sept
27th, and the other a dark-morph bird near Trim and Wall Rds. on Oct. 18th.
A Northern Goshawk was mobbed by American Crows in the Clyde Ave.
woods on the 15th.
The gathering of SANDHILL CRANES in the eastern cornfields continues to be
impressive. A total of 54 birds were counted mainly along Milton Rd. and
near the corner of Trim and McFadden Rds. on the 18th. A few shorebirds
are still present; most reports this week came from the mud-flats at the east
end of Andrew Haydon Park and included several Black-bellied Plovers,
both Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, 1 Sanderling, 3 Pectoral Sandpipers and
5 Dunlin. An adult Thayer's Gull was seen east of Andrew Haydon on the
16th and at least 14 Lesser Black-backed Gulls were in the same general
area on the evening of the 18th.
Northern Shrikes have begun to move in to our area - the 1st reports came
from Britannia as well as the Dunrobin area on the 17th. Also on the 17th, a
Carolina Wren was briefly but emphatically vocal at the end of Scrivens St.
near the bike path along the Ottawa River, 18 Eastern Bluebirds were noted
in the Dunrobin area, and a rather late Common Yellowthroat was at
Andrew Haydon. Other signs of the impending colder season came from
various locations - the 1st reports of American Tree Sparrows since the 17th,
single Snow Buntings since the 13th, and a few Pine Siskins and Evening
Grosbeaks since the 14th.
To participate on the Fall Bird Count, for the Ontario sectors please contact
Eve Ticknor at 613-737-7551 or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the Quebec
sectors please contact Garry McNulty at 819-684-9861 or e-mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you - Good Birding!
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