Ontario/Quebec Ottawa/Gatineau 24 June 2010 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]
As expected, a slow week for bird news, but not without some interesting reports. The most recent report of the TRUMPETER SWAN family on the Jock River near Carleton Place was on the 19th, although they are no doubt still in or near the area. At least one of the GREAT EGRETS at the Ring-billed Gull colony in the Deschenes rapids was observed probing among the branches and on the ground on the 22nd and 23rd, and seems to have a very consistent flight routine to and from the thicket near the centre of the island. A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was also observed on the 23rd, carrying a stick as it over the Britannia Conservation area towards towards the Ottawa River. Several good sightings from participants in the current Quebec breeding bird atlas included a YELLOW-THROATED VIREO along the main road north of the Mont Cascades ski resort on the 21st, as well as UPLAND SANDPIPER and NORTHERN PARULA elsewhere in the same atlas square. On the 20th a wetland on the edge of Gatineau Park north of Quyon was productive for LEAST BITTERN, BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, UPLAND SANDPIPER, WHIP-POOR-WILL, OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER and GRASSHOPPER SPARROW. A nice variety of common and uncommon breeding species was also reported from several locations around Ottawa. The resident pair of PEREGRINE FALCONS evidently failed to hatch the three eggs laid in early May on the Crowne Plaza hotel in downtown Ottawa. However, on the 23rd it was reported that the female has laid a new egg after removing one of the originals. It will be interesting to see what comes of this very late attempt to start another family! 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 information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
