- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 08 April 2005 * ONOT0504.08
- Birds mentioned GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE Snow Goose Brant Canada Goose Redhead Lesser Scaup Ruddy Duck Osprey Red-tailed Hawk Wild Turkey SANDHILL CRANE LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL Great Horned Owl Great Gray Owl Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE Hermit Thrush Vesper Sparrow Fox Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 08 April 2005 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 - APR 08 dd 2005 AT 7:30 PM This is Chris Lewis reporting. Spring is rapidly advancing in the Ottawa area. New arrivals since April 4th included Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and Northern Flicker, as well as many songbirds such as Golden-crowned Kinglet, Winter Wren, Hermit Thrush and Vesper Sparrow, all reported from a wide variety of locations. Increased numbers of Eastern Phoebes, Tree Swallows, Eastern Bluebirds, Fox Sparrows and Dark-eyed Juncos have also been reported from all over the region. Waterfowl highlights were single Greater White-fronted Geese on April 6th south of Pendleton where the road is flooded out, and on the morning the 8th at Twin Elm Rd. at the Jock River with a small number of Canada Geese. A record early Brant was viewed northeast of Carlsbad Springs on the west side of Milton Rd. north of Perrault Rd. on Apr. 7th, among scattered numbers of Canada Geese and numerous puddle ducks. An uncounted but evidently large number of Snow Geese were in the fields between Winchester and Morewood south of Ottawa on the 4th, and in excess of 7500 Greater Snow's were in the Riceville area on the 6th, along County Rd. #9 near the bridge over the South Nation River. A female Ruddy Duck was in the flooded fields along Frank Kenney Rd. on the 7th, and a male Redhead was with 4 Lesser Scaup on the Ottawa River near Petrie Island on the 5th. An Osprey was at the Embrun sewage lagoons on the 4th, and the dark morph Red-tailed Hawk was still at the Gatineau airport as of the 6th. Ten Wild Turkeys were displaying in a backyard in L'Orignal east of Ottawa on the 7th. Back to Milton Rd. - on the 4th there were 4 SANDHILL CRANES in the cornfields on the west side north of Perrault, and one was seen here on the 7th. Seven LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were reported from the fields in area of the Trail Rd. Landfill on the 8th. The TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE in Rothwell Heights is still alive and singing on Coxford St. as of the 5th. A single Great Gray Owl was on Rifle Rd. near Shirley's Bay on the 6th, and finally, in the Clyde Ave. woods today the 8th, there was NOT a Great Gray Owl but a grey Great Horned Owl (ssp. subarcticus) returning north. Thank you - Good Spring Birding! - End transcript
