- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 20 April 2006 * ONOT0604.20
- Birds mentioned Common Loon Red-necked Grebe GREAT EGRET GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE Snow Goose ROSS'S GOOSE Canada Goose Redhead Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk SANDHILL CRANE Lesser Black-backed Gull Barred Owl RED-HEADED WOODPECKER Ruby-crowned Kinglet Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher Yellow-rumped Warbler Pine Warbler Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Purple Finch Evening Grosbeak - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 20 April 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 @ 5:00pm, THURSDAY APRIL 20, 2006 This is Chris Lewis reporting. Another fine week for spring birding in the Ottawa-Gatineau area. A ROSS'S GOOSE was present all day until at least 7:00 pm on April 18th, among a large flock of Canada Geese on the Peterson Sod Farm at Snake Island Rd. and Manotick Stn. Rd. south of Ottawa. Closer to town, a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was again seen at the large pond on the east side of Moodie Dr. south of Trail Rd. on the 17th. On the Quebec side, a GREAT EGRET was present in the Sabourin marsh behind the "Sportheque" arena at Rue Jean-Proulx in Gatineau from the 15th until at least the 17th, and east of Gatineau a male Eurasian Wigeon was still at the Marais des Laiches Ouest sector of the marshes along the Ottawa River as of at least the 17th. Other water bird of note were Common Loon, Red-necked Grebe and a male Redhead, all seen from the Shirley's Bay boat lunch on the 17th and 18th. Two Snow Geese including one blue-morph bird were at the Moodie Dr. pond on both days, along with 5 Redhead, 3 Ruddy Ducks and an adult Lesser Black-backed Gull. East of Ottawa on the 18th, a male Red-breasted Merganser was present in the Lafarge quarry along Giroux Rd. Two Red-shouldered Hawks were seen in the area of Fitzroy Provincial Park on the 18th and another Broad-winged Hawk was migrating over Britannia the same day. A SANDHILL CRANE flew north over Thomas Dolan Parkway at Constance Creek on the 17th. On the 18th 2 Barred Owls were heard calling in the forested area along Conley Rd. in the Munster area, and 2 RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were seen in the old burn area off Whistler Rd. in Constance Bay. Songbird activity continues to increase as well, with additional reports of Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Hermit Thrushes and both Pine and Yellow-rumped Warblers moving through. New species this week included a Brown Thrasher at Lois Ave. by Shirley's Bay on the 18th, and 10 spp. of sparrows have been noted in various locations, including Chipping, Field, Vesper, Savannah, Fox, Swamp and White-throated Sparrows. Finally, in the finch department, a male Purple Finch was seen in Cumberland on the 19th, and a flock of at least 20 Evening Grosbeaks was seen along the Kerwin Rd. trail west of Kanata on the 18th. Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript
