Ontario/Quebec Ottawa/Gatineau 06 July 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]
Summer rolls on, with few changes on the local birding front. Still, there's always something interesting out there. The TRUMPETER SWAN family of 2 adults and four young was most recently seen on June 27th south of the bridge on 9th Line Beckwith near Carleton Place. Many duck species with young were observed at the Embrun sewage lagoons on July 1st, and a few probably summering adult AMERICAN WIGEON and RING-NECKED DUCKS were seen at the large quarry pond along Moodie Dr. south of Trail Rd. on the 2nd, as well as several PIED-BILLED GREBES with young. A GREAT EGRET and a BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON were at the Bruce Pit on Cedarview Rd. on the 25th. Monitoring of the GREAT EGRETS at the Ring-billed Gull colony in the Deschenes rapids of the Ottawa River has yet to reveal confirmed nesting at this site. On the 26th, seven BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS were also seen at this location. A few inklings of southbound shorebird migration have begun: on Canada Day, a visit to the Almonte sewage lagoons produced one LESSER YELLOWLEGS and eight LEAST SANDPIPERS, and there were nine LEAST SANDPIPERS at the Embrun lagoons the same day. CASPIAN TERNS are rare but annual transient summer visitors to our region. On June 25th, one was noted at McLaurin Bay in Gatineau, and one was seen at Andrew Haydon Park in Ottawa on July 3rd. YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS were reported from two Quebec breeding bird atlas squares in the Poltimore area on the 27th, and on the 25th a single bird was again noted in Gatineau Park at the Champlain lookout. Many common breeding birds continue to be very active (before the day's temperature gets too hot!) and a few less common and very local breeders such as the eastern or "yellow"PALM WARBLER and LINCOLN'S SPAROW were reported from the Mer Bleue boardwalk from June 27th and July 5th. 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/
