Jack Romanow, Colin Gaskell and I spent an excellent day birding in the Ottawa area from Richmond out to Casselman and back including a little pre-dawn owling. Collectively we recorded 100 species, the highlights were as follows: Barred Owl - (~4) calling on Bleeks, Munster and Kettles roads west of Richmond Virginia Rail - (2) Constance Creek at Vance's Sideroad, calling at dawn Eastern Towhee (3) - Carp Ridge Yellow Warbler (1) - Carp Ridge Black-and-White Warbler (1) - Shirley's Bay Boat Launch Horned Grebe - (10+) - off the Boat Launch at Shirley's Bay Red-necked Grebe - (12+) - off the Boat Launch at Shirley's Bay Common Tern (1) - off the Boat Launch at Shirley's Bay American Coot - 1 - Embrun Sewage Lagoons Gray Partridge - St. Albert Sewage Lagoons (along the row of trees on the east side of the cells) Greater Yellowlegs (15) - St. Albert Sewage Lagoons Lesser Yellowlegs (4) - St. Albert Sewage Lagoons Dunlin (1) - St. Albert Sewage Lagoons Pectoral Sandpiper (1) - St. Albert Sewage Lagoons Wilson's Phalarope (1 female) - St. Albert Sewage Lagoons Spotted Sandpiper (2) - Casselman Sewage Lagoons Snow Goose - 3,000 in the fields east of Johnson Road east of Bourget David Britton Ottawa DIRECTIONS (Courtesty of Larry Neily's Birding Ottawa) Richmond Fen http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/marlboro34.htm Constance Creek at Vance's Sideroad http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/dun8.htm Carp Ridgehttp://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/dun10.htm Shirley's Bay http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/orwo22.htm Embrun Lagoons http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sewage5.htm St. Albert Lagoons http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sewage6.htm Casselman Lagoons http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sewage7.htm Johnson Rd. http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/flooding8.htm _______________________________________________ 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
