- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 31 October 2004 * ONOT0410.31
- Birds mentioned Red-throated Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe CATTLE EGRET Snow Goose Brant Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Barrow's Goldeneye Ruddy Duck Peregrine Falcon Gray Partridge Wild Turkey Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Sanderling White-rumped Sandpiper Dunlin RED-HEADED WOODPECKER Bohemian Waxwing Fox Sparrow Snow Bunting Purple Finch Pine Siskin Evening Grosbeak - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 31 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 31 2004 AT 7:00 PM This is Chris Lewis reporting. Quite a dynamic week, with numbers and variety of species changing almost daily. An adult CATTLE EGRET in non-breeding plumage was seen on a farm at 371 McCann Rd. near Scotch Corners, southwest of Carleton Place, between 08:30 and 11:00 AM today, Oct. 31st. The bird returned at 2:00 PM and was still there at 3:00 PM. Please check the Rare Bird Alert option (#1) on the Bird Status Line for more information. The Ottawa River hosted at least 4 Red-throated Loons this week and one was still present at Shirley's Bay, easily viewable from the public boat launch on Oct. 31st. One each of Pied-billed Grebe, Horned Grebe and Red-necked Grebe were found between Shirley's Bay and Andrew Haydon Park on the 29th. Flocks of 14 Snow Geese and 45 Brant were seen on the river at the east end of Andrew Haydon Park on the 28th, and a single adult Brant continues to feed on the lawn at the west end of the park as of the 31st. The Snow Goose count on the large pond on the east side of Moodie Dr. south of the Trail Rd. Landfill reached 235 on the 31st, and a juvenile Peregrine Falcon was hunting here on the 28th. An adult male Peregrine was on the R.H.Coats building at Tunney's Pasture on the 31st. All 3 species of scoters have been reported over the past week, the highlights were several large transient flocks of mostly male birds - 3 flocks of Black Scoters totalling over 750 birds were on the river off Andrew Haydon Park on the 27th and a flock of approx. 500 were still present the next day. The 1st sighting this season of a Barrow's Goldeneye was of a male, seen from the Remic Rapids Lookout. The bird was on the river close to the Quebec side, west of Parc Moussette. 25 male Long-tailed Ducks and a few females were seen on the river on the 28th. 16 Ruddy Ducks were still on the Moodie Dr. pond on the 31st. 7 Gray Partridge were seen along McFadden Rd. west of Navan on the 31st, 9 Wild Turkeys were feeding on the west side of Rifle Rd. on the 29th, and 22 Sandhill Cranes were at the southwest corner of Milton Rd. and Smith Rd. northeast of Carlsbad Springs on the 28th and again on the 31st. It's getting late for shorebirds in Ottawa...a very late Lesser Yellowlegs was at the base of the Shirley's Bay dyke on the 29th. 3 Greater Yellowlegs were at the west end of Andrew Haydon Park on the 31st, and 1 Sanderling, 1 White-rumped Sandpiper and 3 Dunlin were on the sandbar at the east end of Andrew Haydon on the 29th. 12 Black-bellied Plovers and 2 Dunlin were on the river shore at Constance Bay on the 28th. Also at Constance Bay on the 28th, a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was still at the old burn site off Whistler Rd. In songbird reports, 2 Bohemian Waxwings flew over the Shirley's Bay parking lot on the 27th, 12 Fox Sparrows were found along Kerwin Rd. west of Kanata on the 26th. A movement of Snow Buntings seems to have accelerated since the 28th and small numbers of Purple Finches, Pine Siskins and Evening Grosbeaks have been noted over the weekend as well. Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript
