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OOOPS! THE DATE SHOULD BE 24 JUNE 2009 (GOOD SPOTTING BY FRED
HELLEINER - YES, I WISH IT WAS MAY TOO!)
CHRIS LEWIS
Ottawa, ON [email protected] [1]
Ontario
Ottawa/Gatineau
24 June 2009
Hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
Phone number: 613-860-9000
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Coverage: Ottawa/Gatineau (Canada National Capital Region) E.
Ontario, W.
Quebec
Compiler & transcriber: Chris Lewis [email protected] [2]
At 7:00 am, Wednesday June 24, 2009 this is Chris Lewis reporting.
It was a week of typically slow summer birding, but with a few
surprises.
WESTERN MEADOWLARKS in Quebec were the local highlights - one was
discovered
on June 21st along Lac des Loups Rd. north of Quyon and was still
present as
of the 23rd, and another found farther west along the Ottawa River
on Ile
aux Allumettes a few weeks ago was also seen again on the 23rd.
The first of the two young Peregrine Falcons successfully fledged
from the
nest on the Crowne Plaza hotel in downtown Ottawa on the 16th and
the 2nd
took flight on the 21st. Updates on the Peregrines' progress can be
found
on the OFNC web site at www.ofnc.ca [3] To volunteer for the Falcon
Watch please
contact Nancy Scott at [email protected] [4] or phone
613-946-7847 or
613-253-1490. You may also contact Falcon Watch cordinator Eve
Ticknor at
[email protected] [5]
Back on the 16th a single Snow Goose was a late lingerer at the
Embrun
sewage lagoons and a pair of Northern Pintails was a bit of surprise
here as
well. Four female Wild Turkeys in a field north of Quyon were
surprised by
passersby on the 22nd. Although the small Double-crested Cormorant
colony on
the Ottawa River near Lemieux Island remains restricted to one small
islet,
the number of nests has grown to at least 18, and a pair of Herring
Gulls
among the breeding Ring-billed Gulls at this location remains a
mystery -
they have shown up every year since the cormorants started nesting
here four
years ago but no young have ever been seen. An adult and a juvenile
Black-crowned Night Heron were seen together at Mud Lake in
Britannia on the
21st. An Upland Sandpiper was seen along Ferry Rd. near Fitzroy
Harbour on
the 22nd - no real surprise as the habitat is ideal for this
species.
Many of our breeding songbirds were again widely reported, and it
seems that
Pine Siskins are not gone yet - a few singletons were noted flying
over
residential areas, and a couple of loyal customers were still
visting
feeders in Cumberland last week.
Thank you - Good Birding!
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birding organization.
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