- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 23 December 2007 * ONOT0712.23
- Birds mentioned HARLEQUIN DUCK Long-tailed Duck BARROW'S GOLDENEYE Common X BARROW'S GOLDENEYE GRAY PARTRIDGE Wild Turkey Bald Eagle RED-SHOULDERED HAWK Red-tailed Hawk Peregrine Falcon Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Eastern Screech-Owl Snowy Owl Barred Owl YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER American Crow TUFTED TITMOUSE Carolina Wren Winter Wren Hermit Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Bohemian Waxwing OREGON JUNCO Pine Grosbeak Common Redpoll HOARY REDPOLL Evening Grosbeak - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 23 December 2007 Number: 613-860-9000 For the status line PRESS * (star) To report bird sightings, PRESS 1 (one) Rare bird alerts are now included in the introductory message 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 @ 5:30 pm, SUNDAY DECEMBER 23, 2007 This is Chris Lewis reporting. Two of our local Christmas Bird Counts this past week were two radically different experiences. The Ottawa-Gatineau Count on Dec. 16th was crippled by a major snowstorm. The compilation meeting was cancelled and the results will be compiled on a later date. The Dunrobin-Breckenridge Count on the 22nd on the other hand, was a great day with mild temperatures and several highlights including record high counts of Wild Turkeys and American Crows, a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK at Huntmar and Old Carp Rds., an Eastern Screech-Owl in the Aylmer / Breckenridge area and 4 HOARY REDPOLLS at various locations including 2 at feeders along Torbolton Ridge Rd. In other news.....a TUFTED TITMOUSE was discovered coming to feeders at #103 Manitou St. in Forest Park (Embrun) on December 22nd and was still very active here on the morning of the 23rd. There is no need to enter the property as the feeders are clearly visible from the road. The female HARLEQUIN DUCK is still present on the Ottawa River near the north shore just east of the Champlain Bridge along with 2 Long-tailed Ducks, and a male hybrid Common X BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was in the same area this week until at least the 21st - this may be the same bird that over-wintered in Ottawa for the past 3 years. A male BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was also seen again farther east at Remic rapids on the 22nd. The evening gull roost at Remic rapids on the 22nd consisted of only a couple of hundred gulls but included approx. 20 Glaucous and 3 Iceland Gulls. Small coveys of GRAY PARTRIDGE were seen east of Ottawa on the 20th on Conc. #19 at Ste-Rose, and on Giroux Rd. east of the quarry pond. Two adult Bald Eagles have been feeding on a carcass on the ice of the Ottawa River east of the Rockcliffe airport all week, and Red-tailed Hawk was seen feeding here (on same carcass but without eagles) on the 23rd. A Peregrine Falcon was at a duck carcass on the Rideau River north of the Tennis Club on the 20th, and on the 22nd two Peregrines were perched together on the small islet north of the Champlain Bridge parking lot. Three Snowy Owls were found in the Ste-Rose area on the 15th, 2 Barred Owls continue to be quite accommodating along March Valley Rd. as of at least the 22nd, and a record late YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER first discovered on the 13th was seen again on the 18th in the Arboretum of the Central Experimental Farm. Lingering songbirds included a Carolina Wren still in the Graham Park / Qualcomm neighbourhood on the 19th, a Winter Wren at Mud Lake, Britannia on the 15th, a few American Robins here and there over the past week, and 2 Gray Catbirds and 2 Hermit Thrushes in different locations on the 16th. The catbird in Constance Bay continues to frequent the feeders and cedar hedges on Goodin St. as of the 22nd. The OREGON JUNCO at the feeders in the Fletcher Wildlife Garden was most recently reported on the 16th, and Bohemian Waxwings, Pine Grosbeaks, Common Redpolls and Evening Grosbeaks continue to be reported from all over our area. Thank you - Good Birding, and best of the season to all! - End transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdssetup.php ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdsguide.php
