Conroy Island is in Quebec. The rookery (several pairs of Great Egret, many
Black-crowned Night Heron and DC Cormorant, a multitude of RB Gull) is best
viewed from Deschennes in QC. Easy to get to; take the Champlain Bridge to the
QC side, turn left on Alymer Road. After a few kilometers turn left on Vanier
Road, proceed all the way to the end of Vanier Road where it overlooks the
Deschennes Rapids. There is parking here. From there walk approx. 100 meters to
your left along the bike path (beware of fast moving bikes) to a view point
over the islands (there is a guard rail with a sign that helpfully suggests one
not swim in the rapids).
Regards
Mark Gawn
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 22:10:29 -0400
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Ontbirds] Little Egret - Ottawa
>
> The Little Egret is currently roosting in a tree on Conroy Island, halfway
> across the Ottawa River from Brittania Conservation Area. It was near
> Ring-billed Gulls, as well as a Great Egret for a while, for a great size
> comparison. We also likely saw it very briefly flying over the conservation
> area at about 20:15 but could not rule out all other possibilities, so it was
> great to see it roosting on the island.
>
> It will likely spend the night there and will probably leave very early in
> the morning, hopefully back to one of the places where it's been seen
> recently.
>
> Directions: The Britannia Conservation Area/Mud Lake is located off Carling
> Ave/Richmond Road. Take Britannia Road north to Cassels Road and turn right.
> It seems there is parking on the sides of Cassels Rd or in the few parking
> spots on Cassels Rd just before the water filtration plant. There is a path
> north of the road, along the water, and a few small offshoots of this path
> that give some viewing opportunities of Conroy Island. It's probably worth
> noting that there were quite a few shady looking people around this location
> after sunset tonight.
>
> Good luck and happy birding!
>
> Jeremy Bensette and Emma Buck
> All over Ontario!
>
>
>
>
> > On Jun 8, 2015, at 3:22 PM, "robertcermak9" <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > The Little Egret is present now on the south side of Palladium Dr just west
> > of the Lockheed Martin building at 501 Palladium Dr. This bird appears to
> > be identical to the one seen near Carp June 2nd except that the 2 head
> > plumes are only about 2 inches long now. We speculate that most of those
> > plumes have broken off.
> >
> > Directions: 417 west to Terry Fox, south on Terry Fox then west on
> > Palladium Dr.
> >
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