Ontario Ottawa/Gatineau 04 December 2008 Birds mentioned: Snow Goose Greater Scaup White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Barrow's Goldeneye Wild Turkey Bald Eagle Northern Goshawk Golden Eagle Peregrine Falcon Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Great Horned Owl NORTHERN HAWK OWL Short-eared Owl Horned Lark VARIED THRUSH Bohemian Waxwing Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting White-winged Crossbill Evening Grosbeak Hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club Phone number: 613-860-9000 For the Bird Status Line PRESS * (star) To report bird sightings PRESS 1 (one) Rare bird alerts are now included in the introductory message Coverage: Ottawa/Gatineau (Canada National Capital Region) E. Ontario, W. Quebec Compiler & transcriber: Chris Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 8:30 am, Thursday December 4, 2008 this is Chris Lewis reporting. For the past several days, snow flurries and temperatures around the freezing mark have been signs that we're heading towards winter...and the Christmas bird counts! The Ottawa-Gatineau CBC will held on Sunday Dec. 14. Information can be found on the "Coming Events" page of the OFNC web site at www.ofnc.ca In the meantime....a group of 4 Snow Geese have been seen on and off at Andrew Haydon Park, most recently on Nov. 29th. On the 30th a female-plumaged White-winged Scoter was associating with a few Greater Scaup and Common Goldeneye on the Ottawa River at the west end of Andrew Haydon. Two male Barrow's Goldeneye were reported from the Rideau River near the Hurdman bridge on the 27th along with 3 Wild Turkeys. On the morning of the 3rd, 2 Bald Eagles and an adult Golden Eagle were noted at the rifle range by Shirley's Bay. Back on the 26th an adult Northern Goshawk was lurking around the OFNC bird feeder at the Jack Pine Trail, and an adult Peregrine Falcon was hunting near the Woodroffe campus of Algonquin College on the 1st. Another Peregrine, an immature bird, was also active in the fields along Barnsdale Rd. on the 24th. Numbers of "white-winged" gulls were building up at the Moodie Dr. quarry pond and the Trail Rd. landfill last week - 16 Iceland and 22 Glaucous Gulls were counted on the 24th. A juvenile Glaucous Gull was also seen at Andrew Haydon Park on the 30th. A Great Horned Owl was seen flying over Blair Rd. near the CSIS building on the evening of the 28th, a NORTHERN HAWK OWL discovered on Dec. 1st in Gatineau, Quebec in a field along Blvd. Hurtubise east of Rue Campeau was still present on the 3rd, and an evening visit to Earl Armstrong Rd. east of Bowesville Rd. on the 29th revealed 4 Short-eared Owls near the "S" curve in the road. A few Horned Larks, 4 Lapland Longspurs and a large concentration of Snow Buntings were noted in the vicinity of Eagleson and Brownlee Rds. on the 26th. An unspecified number of Bohemian Waxwings along with a half-dozen each of White-winged Crossbills and Evening Grosbeaks were found in the Eardely-Masham area on the 3rd, and 2 different VARIED THRUSHES have showed up in our region - one at a feeder in Deep River (most recently reported on Nov. 30th), and another in Gatineau, Quebec, near the Universite du Quebec en Outaouais on Dec. 2nd. Thank you - Good Birding! _______________________________________________ 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
