- RBA
* Ontario
* Ottawa/Gatineau
* 31 December 2007
* ONOT0712.31
- Birds mentioned
Canada Goose
Ring-necked Duck
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE
Common Merganser
GRAY PARTRIDGE
Ruffed Grouse
Wild Turkey
Bald Eagle
Cooper's Hawk
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK
American Kestrel
Merlin
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
Barred Owl
Northern Shrike
Horned Lark
TUFTED TITMOUSE
TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE
Hermit Thrush
GRAY CATBIRD
Bohemian Waxwing
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting
Pine Grosbeak
Common Redpoll
HOARY REDPOLL
Evening Grosbeak
- Transcript
hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
date: 31 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 @ 5:00 pm, MONDAY DEC. 31, 2007
This is Chris Lewis reporting.
In the last week of the year Ottawa was blessed with mild temperatures and
several "quality" birds! A TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE discovered back on Dec.
21st in the Parkwood Hills neighbourhood was re-found on the 28th and was
still present on the 31st on Millbrook Cres. off Deer Park Rd. The TUFTED
TITMOUSE on Manitou St. in Forest Park, Embrun was still here on the 31st,
and the female HARLEQUIN DUCK remains on the Ottawa River at the north
end of the Champlain bridge as of the 29th. With respect to the
solitaire and the
titmouse - there is no need to enter private property, as both birds have
been easily seen from the road, however please be respectful of these quiet
residential neighbourhoods.
Other waterfowl seen this week included 6 Canada Geese in a field along
Barnsdale Rd. on the 31st, and from Bate Island a male Ring-necked Duck, a
couple of female Long-tailed Ducks, a male Bufflehead, a male Barrow's
Goldeneye and 2 male Common Mergansers on the 28th. An unusual sight
at the Hilda Rd. feeders by Shirley's Bay from the 27th to the 31st was a
Ruffed Grouse among the more common customers, and a HOARY REDPOLL
has been seen regularly at these feeders since the 28th. Two GRAY PARTRIDGE
were in a field with a manure spread between Akins Rd. and Brownlee Rd. along
with small numbers of Horned Larks & Snow Buntings and 2 Lapland Longspurs.
Wild Turkeys were found in at least six different locations in the
Kanata and West
Carleton areas since the 22nd. Two juvenile Bald Eagles were in the
Eardley-Masham area of Gatineau Park on the 22nd and an adult was seen along
March Valley Rd. on the 30th, a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was still present
along Old Carp Rd. near Gourlay Lane west of Huntmar Rd. as of the
28th, a male
American Kestrel was seen hunting at Fallowfield Rd. and Prince of
Wales Dr. and
on Eagleson at Bankfield Rds., and a Cooper's Hawk and a Merlin took advantage
of the birdy smorgasbord at the Hilda Rd. feeders on the weekend as well.
Numbers of gulls increased again with the milder weather, and the
gathering on the
river off Bate Island included several Iceland and Glaucous Gulls and
an adult Lesser
Black-backed Gull on the 28th. Barred Owls were reported almost
every day this
week, with individuals seen on Old Carp Rd., 6th Line Rd. and March Valley Rd.
Four separate reports of Northern Shrikes came in over the past week. A
very late Hermit Thrush was found in the Rockcliffe area on the 29th on Pond
St. near the entrance to the Caldwell-Carver Conservation Area, the Gray
Catbird on Goodin St. in Constance Bay was still alive and well as of at least
the 24th, and it was another good week for Bohemian Waxwings, Pine
Grosbeaks, Common Redpolls and Evening Grosbeaks in many locations.
Thank you - Good Birding, and HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
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