- RBA
* Ontario
* Ottawa/Gatineau
* 03 November 2003
* ONOT0311.03
- Birds mentioned
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Greater White-fronted Goose
Brant
Green-winged Teal
Northern Pintail
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Common Goldeneye
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Rough-legged Hawk
American Coot
Greater Yellowlegs
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
SLATY-BACKED GULL
Long-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER
WESTERN KINGBIRD
- Transcript
hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
date: 03 November 2003
number: 613-860-9000 press 2
to report: 613-860-9000 press #
coverage: Ottawa/Gatineau (Can. Nat. Capital Reg.), E.Ont., W.Que.
compilers : Chris Lewis
: Terry Higgins
: Colin Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
transcriber: Michelle Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
internet : Gordon Pringle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OFNC BIRD STATUS LINE NOVEMBER 3 AT 6PM
This is Chris Lewis reporting.
An adult winter SLATY-BACKED GULL reported on November 2, from
Bankfield Rd in the fields east of highway 416, was searched for
but not relocated on the 3rd, but is still worth looking for,
especially in the Trail Rd landfill and the fields nearby.
On the 3rd there 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 30 Dunlin, 1 White-
rumped Sandpiper and 1 very late Baird's Sandpiper with the gulls
in a wet ploughed field on Bankfield west of the 416 and 2 Lesser
Black-backed and 1 Iceland Gull at the Trail Rd landfill. Please
note that the landfill can be viewed from Trail Rd and from
Cambrian Rd but there is public access into the dump itself.
On November 2 the Ottawa River between Andrew Haydon Park and Dick
Bell Park hosted 4 Common Loons, 5 Red-necked Grebes, a flock of
approximately 120 Black Scoters as well as smaller numbers of
White-winged and Surf Scoters, a Red-breasted Merganser,
increasing numbers of Greater and Lesser Scaup, Common Goldeneye
and Bufflehead and 3 separate flocks of Dunlin, totalling
approximately 70 birds flying east up the river. 8 Greater
Yellowlegs, several more Dunlin and 5 Pectoral Sandpipers were
also found in the wet field south of the International Airport,
indicating an exodus of shorebirds from the north.
Good birds found on October 31st included 2 Greater White-fronted
Geese on the Ottawa River at Andrew Haydon Park east, 130 Brant at
the same location, a male and female BARROW'S GOLDENEYE at Remic
Rapids and another male Barrow's on the Rideau River at Strathcona
park.
At Shirley's Bay on the 31st, there were 3 Horned Grebes, 5
Northern Pintail, numerous Lesser Scaup and Bufflehead, a few
Ring-necked Duck, 6 Long-tailed Ducks, 1 Red-breasted and many
Common Mergansers, 23 American Coots and 2 Rough-legged Hawks.
Rough-legged Hawks, Common and Hooded Mergansers, Northern
Pintails and Green-winged Teal were also reported from Earl
Armstrong Rd south of the International Airport on November 2.
Also on the 31st, 3 Short-eared Owls were flying at dusk in the
fields along Earl Armstrong Rd. A Long-eared Owl was in the Clyde
Ave woods on November 1. A RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER visited a farm
on Diamondview Rd in Carp on the 30th. It was not seen the
following day but any further sightings will be reported.
And in news from slightly farther a field, a WESTERN KINGBIRD was
still present on November 2, its fourth consecutive day, in
Pembroke Ontario, at Riverside Park in the trees and fields
between the Ottawa River and the construction site of the new
Miramichi Lodge in downtown Pembroke.
Thank-you. Good birding.
- End transcript
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