This week, a peregrine was on the north side of the Coats building at the Tunney's Pasture government complex on Monday and Wednesday morning, as well as early Wednesday afternoon. I did not see it at other times.
On good migration days, the small woodlots north-west of Tunney's Pasture have small numbers of migrant passerines. Over the past two years, I have found here the region's 4 common vireos and all the regularly occurring warblers, with the exception of yellowthroat (unsuitable habitat?), and Cape May, orange-crowned and golden-winged (scarce). Today was a first for me at this spot: a Northern Waterthrush in the woods. The exposed rocky shelf on the east side of Champlain bridge that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago is now considerably reduced in area due to the Ottawa River's rising water levels. Other than the odd killdeer and spotted sandpiper, I have seen no shorebirds here in several days. The Coats building is the tall tower on the north-east corner of Holland Ave and Scott St. Paul Matthews Ottawa From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 26 18:31:00 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from fep4.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF64864123 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:31:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mycomputer (d150-112-172.home.cgocable.net [24.150.112.172]) by fep4.cogeco.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 40AF51D59 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:34:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Barry Cherriere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ONTBIRDS" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:34:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: [Ontbirds]Four more Jaegers seen at VanWagner's beach today X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:31:01 -0000 Hi all Ontbirders Today at VanWagner's beach it was another successful and enjoyable jaeger watching day, with four more being seen. Three juvenile Long-tailed Jaegers and one jaeger sp. The fourth was presumed to be another Long-tailed Jaeger but the distance made it very difficult to give it a name fore certain. Directions; From the QEW (Burlington way),Take the QEW towards Niagara, going over the skyway, or Eastport drive (lower level) exit at the Woodward exit, turn right (towards the lake) at Woodward and go under the QEW and coming to stop lights at Beach Blvd. If you were on Eastport Drive,(heading east from Burlington) you will turn left at the lights at Woodward. Turn right at the Beach Blvd lights, and head east along the beach until you almost get to the Famous Hutch's fish & chip outlet. Park in the lot just before you get to Hutch's. Best of luck, Barry Cherriere Hamilton Ontario
