Ontario/Quebec
Ottawa/Gatineau
29 September 2010
Hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
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Coverage: Ottawa/Gatineau (Canada National Capital Region) E. Ontario, W.
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Compiler & transcriber: Chris Lewis [email protected], or [email protected]
It's been a very active week, with lots of highlights in the Ottawa-Gatineau
area.
More waterfowl species are beginning to arrive - on the 25th a raft of SCAUP
sp. at Shirley's Bay included 2 REDHEAD, and a pair of Redhead has been
hanging out in the east pond at Andrew Haydon Park since at least the 23rd.
From the 26th to the 28th flocks of up to 40 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS were noted
on the Ottawa River from Shirley's Bay through Britannia.
On the 26th at least 4 COMMON LOONS were on the river off Andrew Haydon.
GREAT EGRETS continue to be reported from the river, as well as local ponds
such as the Moodie Dr. quarry pond and the Emerald Meadows area in Kanata.
Two imm. BALD EAGLES were seen again at Shirley's Bay on the 26th.
Although a significant rise in water levels on the Ottawa River has all but
obliterated the mud flats along the shorelines, shorebirds are still about -
a DUNLIN was at Shirley's Bay on the 26th, and the same day a couple of
AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS were noted at the Petersen sod farms south of
Osgoode, and a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER was among 14 mostly GREATER YELLOWLEGS
at the Richmond lagoons on Eagleson Rd. A serious influx of RED PHALAROPES
occurred on the 26th, with 1 seen at the Winchester sewage lagoons and at
least 4 on the Ottawa River; at least 3 were still present below Deschenes
rapids on the evening of the 28th.
Approx. 10 BONAPARTE'S GULLS have been present all week at Deschenes,
several LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were found on the 26th (3 along Bankfield
Rd. and 2 at the Moodie Dr. quarry pond), a FORSTER'S TERN was reported
flying west up the river from Deschenes on the 22nd, and an adult PARASITIC
JAEGER stirred things up on the river east of the Britannia filtration plant
on the afternoons of the 26th and 27th.
More GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS, another wave of VEERY, SWAINSON'S and HERMIT
THRUSHES, and lots of AMERICAN PIPITS were noted by several observers over
the past few days. WARBLERS are not done yet - sightings at Shirley's Bay
and Britannia from the 24th to the 28th included TENNESSEE, ORANGE-CROWNED,
NASHVILLE, NORTHERN PARULA, MAGNOLIA, YELLOW-RUMPED, BLACK-THROATED GREEN,
BLACKBURNIAN, PALM, BLACKPOLL, BLACK-AND-WHITE and WILSON'S. Also noteworthy
was an increase in numbers of WHITE-CROWNED and WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS, and
the first seasonal report of LAPLAND LONGSPUR came from a field along
Bankfield Rd. on the 26th.
Thank you - Good Birding!
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