- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 05 February 2006 * ONOT0602.05
- Birds mentioned Canada Goose Lesser Scaup Barrow's Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Bald Eagle Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Belted Kingfisher Pileated Woodpecker American Crow BOREAL CHICKADEE Carolina Wren American Robin Northern Mockingbird Bohemian Waxwing Cedar Waxwing Northern Shrike Eastern Towhee Fox Sparrow YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD Brown-headed Cowbird Pine Grosbeak Common Redpoll Pine Siskin Evening Grosbeak - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 05 February 2006 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] THE OFNC BIRD STATUS LINE @ 6:00 pm, SUNDAY FEB. 5, 2006 This is Chris Lewis reporting. Spring-like conditions prevailed over most of the past week, and prompted some birds to either linger or perhaps even begin heading north. A flock of approx. 20 Canada Geese flew over the intersection of Hunt Club Rd. and Greenbank Rd. today Feb. 5th. Both a female Lesser Scaup and a female Hooded Merganser were still on the Rideau River in Manotick on Feb. 4th. The YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD and the BOREAL CHICKADEE were still present at #23 Manitou St. in the community of Forest Park east of Embrun on the 5th. A Belted Kingfisher, perhaps the same bird found back on Dec.18th during the Ottawa-Gatineau Christmas Bird Count was seen at Sawmill Creek in the vicinity of the transit station at Bank St. and Walkley Rd. on Feb. 2nd, and a Northern Mockingbird (also found on the same CBC) was seen again in a vacant lot near the end of Mory St. off Albion Rd. in Blossom Park on the 2nd. Yet another bird found back in December is still around - a Fox Sparrow was reported again from Lassiter Terrace in Beacon Hill North on the 5th. A single Cedar Waxwing was still associating with up to 11 American Robins along Cassels St. opposite Mud Lake in the Britannia Conservation Area on the 2nd. An Eastern Towhee was at a feeder on Gold Crescent in the town of Russell east of Ottawa on the 5th, and a group of 10 Brown-headed Cowbirds was still present on Boundary Rd. south of Russell Rd. on the 4th. Other recent reports of interest included the following: 2 male Barrow's Goldeneye, a pair of Bufflehead and 17 Common Mergansers were on the Ottawa River near Remic rapids on Feb. 3rd, as well as a single Ring-billed Gull and 5 Glaucous Gulls among mostly Great Black-backed and Herring Gulls. 25 Glaucous Gulls and 3 Iceland Gulls along with another Ring-billed Gull were on the ice of the Rideau River at Billings Bridge on the morning of the 4th. 4 Bald Eagles were seen on Alary Rd. along Hwy 148 near Luskville, Quebec on the 1st, a single Bald Eagle was being harassed by an American Crow in the back channel of the Rideau River in Manotick on the 5th, an adult male Peregrine Falcon was on the west side of the R. H. Coats building on the 4th, and Wild Turkeys were reported from the fields south of the international airport on the 1st and the 4th, including a dozen birds marching along the tops of hay bales at a farm on Spratt Rd. A female Pileated Woodpecker was actively (and apparently very vocally) working on the telephone poles in downtown Ottawa at the corner of Somerset and Cartier St. on the 3rd. A Carolina Wren reported from Penhill Ave. in Alta Vista has not been seen again in spite of relocation efforts this past weekend. Northern Shrikes and Bohemian Waxwings continue to be reported from a variety of locations, and "winter finch" reports continue to mention small numbers of Pine Grosbeaks, Common Redpolls, Pine Siskins and Evening Grosbeaks, again in various locations around the area. Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript
