Ontario Ottawa/Gatineau 02 January 2009 Birds mentioned:
Snow Goose Wild Turkey Bald Eagle Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle Merlin Gyrfalcon Northern Hawk Owl Great Gray Owl Northern Shrike Carolina Wren Northern Mockingbird Bohemian Waxwing White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Snow Bunting Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pine Grosbeak White-winged Crossbill Common Redpoll Pine Siskin 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 4:00 pm, Friday January 2, 2009 - Happy New Year! A few surprises at the end of the "old year" included a male Rose-breasted Grosbeak at a feeder near Pakenham on the 26th and 2 Snow Geese in a field in the Eagleson / Akins Rd. area near Richmond on the 29th. Less surprising but always impressive, Wild Turkeys and Bald Eagles were noted in several locations, an adult Northern Goshawk flew over Kerwin Rd. on the 1st, a couple of Golden Eagles were spotted in the vicinity of the Eardley-Masham Rd. in Gatineau Park on the 29th and 1st, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cooper's Hawk and Merlin were all seen last week, and Rough-legged Hawks continue to frequent rural areas. Gyrfalcons always generate some excitement - a "pale" bird was reported flying north over Hwy 417 at Woodroffe Ave. on the 27th and a dark morph bird was seen on an unspecified apt. building on Albion Rd. on the 31st. Three each of Northern Hawk Owl and Great Gray Owl were reported over the past couple of weeks in or near the Ottawa-Gatineau area. Northern Shrikes were seen in the Cumberland and Crystal Beach areas on the 25th and 28th respectively. A Carolina Wren appeared briefly at a suet feeder on Grandview Rd. east of Shirley's Bay on the 1st, and a Northern Mockingbird was still playing hide-and-seek in the same neighbourhood as of at least the 27th. Flocks of 50 - 100 Bohemian Waxwings were noted on Herzberg Rd. and March Valley Rd. during the last week of December. A White-throated Sparrow was observed at a feeder on the Central Experimental Farm on the 1st, and various numbers of Snow Buntings were reported from agricultural fields. Small numbers of Dark-eyed Juncos, Pine and Evening Grosbeaks have been reported from a few locations, and a major influx of White-winged Crossbills, Common Redpolls and Pine Siskins has apparently occurred over the past 2 weeks. 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
