- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 11 October 2004 * ONOT0410.11
- Birds mentioned Common Loon Red-necked Grebe Great Egret Snow Goose Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Surf Scoter Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Peregrine Falcon American Coot Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Spotted Sandpiper Hudsonian Godwit Sanderling Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin COMMON BLACK-HEADED GULL Bonaparte's Gull Eastern Screech Owl Eastern Phoebe Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Hermit Thrush Blue-headed Vireo Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Fox Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Rusty Blackbird - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 11 October 2004 number: 613-860-9000 for the status line : press 2 for rare bird alerts: press 1 to report a sighting: press # coverage: Ottawa/Gatineau (Can. Nat. Capital Reg.), E.Ont., W.Que. compiler : Chris Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] transcriber: Chris Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet : Gordon Pringle [EMAIL PROTECTED] OFNC BIRD STATUS LINE - OCT 11 2004 AT 6:00 PM This is Chris Lewis reporting. 1st of all, an apology to birders who may have been misled by the Rare Bird Alert regarding a BLACK-HEADED GULL at Shirley's Bay yesterday. The bird was, in fact a Bonaparte's Gull. It was still present today, Oct. 11. The change in the weather from summer-like conditions to colder temperatures and NW winds brought a change in the birds as well. Five Great Egrets, extremely late for Ottawa, were still at Shirley's Bay on the 11th, but most of the shorebirds have cleared out. A lone Hudsonian Godwit lingered here from the 6th to the 9th but has not been seen since. Throughout the week, other waders along the Ottawa River included small numbers of Black-bellied Plovers, one Semipalmated Plover, 1 late Spotted Sandpiper, 2 Sanderling, 2 Least Sandpipers, 1 White-rumped Sandpiper, 5 Pectoral Sandpipers and 20 Dunlin. Snow Geese have been reported in small numbers in various locations including Carp, Shirley's Bay, Earl Armstrong Rd. and Milton Rd. Twelve flew in to Shirley's Bay on the 11th. Birds on the east side of the Shirley's Bay causeway included 2 Common Loons, 3 Red-necked Grebes, 2 Common & 2 Red-breasted Mergansers, 2 Common Goldeneye, and increasingly large rafts of Lesser Scaup. Two Surf Scoters were on the river at the east end of Andrew Haydon Park (aka Ottawa Beach) on the 11th. A female Redhead was in the large pond on the east side of Moodie Dr. south of the Trail Rd. Landfill the same day, along with increasing numbers of Ring-necked Ducks, Lesser Scaup and Hooded Mergansers. The Ruddy Duck count on the pond was again 38 today, and there was also an American Coot. An immature Bald Eagle was seen at Mud Lake in Britannia on the 5th and at Ottawa Beach on the 10th. A Peregrine Falcon was hunting at Ottawa Beach on the 4th and Shirley's Bay on the 6th. An Eastern Screech Owl was being mobbed by chickadees and kinglets at the west end of the ridge in Britannia on the 10th but did not stick around for long. Reports of songbirds over the weekend came mainly from Shirley's Bay and Britannia and included the following: several Winter Wrens, Blue-headed Vireos, Eastern Phoebes, Hermit Thrushes, 5 Orange-crowned Warblers and 2 Fox Sparrows, as well as the usual Yellow-rumped Warblers, Golden-crowned & Ruby-crowned Kinglets, White-throated & White-crowned Sparrows, Dark-eyed Juncos and a few Rusty Blackbirds. Regarding the Fall Bird Count next weekend: The contacts for birding on the Ontario side are now Ken Allison at 831-7585 for the SW sector and Bernie Ladouceur at 829-2473 for the SE. Thank you - Good Birding & Happy Thanksgiving! - End transcript
