[Ontbirds] Male and female mergansers, Ottawa

in (Old) Ottawa South. About a dozen cormorants as well, along with the odd Canada Goose and mallard Jim Robertson ___ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports

[Ontbirds] Snow geese east of Ottawa

, Between #417 and the turnoff to Moose Creek. GPS Co-ords: 45.3072° -74.985° Jim Robertson ___ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information

[Ontbirds] Snow Geese near Lancaster

heavy concentration, as I have no way of estimating the numbers, likely in the 10's of thousands. On the way back home to Ottawa we saw several hundred snow geese in a good number of skeins flying north in the area of Apple Hill. Jim Robertson Ottawa Directions (courtesy of Brian Morin

[Ontbirds] Ring Neck Pheasant Ottawa suburb

Unless it was an escapee, there was a badly moulting ring necked pheasant gracefully crossing the street on Cahill Drive and Cutts Priv. at around 10:30am Cahill Drive is 8.5km south on Bank Street from Parliament Hill. Cahill runs east off Bank, at the South Keys shopping centre, just

[Ontbirds]Algonquin Park limited report Sept 23

to the northeast, Huntsville to the west and Whitney to the east. Opeongo Road runs north from Hwy 60 at kilometre 46 in the Park. Hwy 127, runs south from hwy 60 just east of Whitney towards Lake St Peter and Bancroft. Jim Robertson ___ ONTBIRDS

[Ontbirds]Green heron, Ottawa

Not that it is that infrequent, but there was a green heron at Carleton University this morning, in the Rideau River, just west of the train bridge. (Opposite the gravel beach the ducks come to looking for handouts on the Vincent Massey Park side) Might have been one of the heron's from Fletcher

[Ontbirds]Bittern et al, Petrie island Ottawa

. Marsh is at bottom of hill on both sides, more activity on the left (west) side Nature trails are found at the west end of the parking lot. Jim Robertson Ottawa (sorry for late report - I sent the note to wrong e-mail address)

[Ontbirds]Snowy Egret at Dow's Lake Ottawa

it, they accompanied it while it patrolled up and down the shoreline. Jim Robertson Directions: (once in Ottawa) Prince of Wales Drive to (Central) Experimental Farm. At traffic circle drive into Arboretum and park just past the top of the tobogganing hill. Walk down the pathways to the canal.

[Ontbirds]Snow Geese around Cornwall

It was too nice a day to stay home so we drove from Ottawa down to the Seaway Valley. We were treated to a spectacular sight as we drove Hwy #2 from Morrisburg to Lancaster. We stopped at the Upper Canada Bird Sanctuary to see what was there. A few Canada Geese were around but not much