Below is the complete list of species observed by participants on the Bruce OFO trip for anyone who is interested. I hope I haven't missed anything. The last species of the day was a group of Upland Sandpipers (at least 3 adults and 4 pint-sized young) at Parkhead.
Good birding, Cindy Cartwright 111 species observed: Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Double-crested Cormorant American Bittern Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Northern Shoveler Blue-winged Teal Green-winged Teal Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Hooded Merganser Bald Eagle Osprey Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Wild Turkey Virginia Rail Sora Sandhill Crane Piping Plover Spotted Sandpiper Killdeer Wilson's Snipe Upland Sandpiper Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Glaucous Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Black Tern Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Black-billed Cuckoo Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Northern Flicker Eastern Wood-Pewee Alder Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Cliff Swallow Bank Swallow Blue Jay American Crow Common Raven Black-capped Chickadee Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch House Wren Marsh Wren American Robin Eastern Bluebird Veery Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Cedar Waxwing European Starling Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Yellow Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Common Yellowthroat Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Dickcissel Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Clay-coloured Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Brewer's Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole American Goldfinch House Sparrow From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 26 14:55:41 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from smtp-06.primus.ca (mail.tor.primus.ca [216.254.136.21]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 208F96396B for <[email protected]>; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:55:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ottawa-hs-209-217-99-172.d-ip.magma.ca ([209.217.99.172] helo=pcpringle.magma.ca) by smtp-06.primus.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I3GCJ-0005NV-MU; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:55:32 -0400 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:55:36 -0400 To: [email protected] From: Gordon Pringle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Ontbirds]Ottawa/Gatineau 25Jun07... Brant, Least Bittern, Peregrine Falcon, Black Tern, Sedge Wren, Palm Warbler X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:55:42 -0000 - RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 25 June 2007 * ONOT0706.25 - Birds mentioned BRANT Wild Turkey American Bittern LEAST BITTERN Black-crowned Night-Heron Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk PEREGRINE FALCON Virginia Rail Sora Common Moorhen American Coot Upland Sandpiper BLACK TERN Red-headed Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker SEDGE WREN Marsh Wren Brown Thrasher PALM WARBLER Mourning Warbler Canada Warbler Evening Grosbeak - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 25 June 2007 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 & transcriber: Chris Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet: Gordon Pringle [EMAIL PROTECTED] THE OFNC BIRD STATUS LINE - 9:30 pm, MONDAY JUNE 25, 2007 This is Chris Lewis reporting. We are definitely in the summer birding doldrums, although busy breeding birds would probably beg to differ. The most unusual report was of a single adult BRANT still present as of June 22nd. Presumably the same bird has been seen infrequently at Riverain Park on the Rideau River as well as the Remic rapids lookout on the Ottawa River. A lone male Wild Turkey was at Rifle Rd. and Carling Ave. on the 18th, and another visit to the Marais aux Grenouilettes west of Masson, Quebec on the 24th demonstrated once again that this is an excellent place to observe marsh breeders such as American Bittern, LEAST BITTERN, Virginia and Sora Rail, Common Moorhen, American Coot, BLACK TERN, and Marsh Wren. On the 19th 2 adult and 3 juvenile Black-crowned Night-Herons were seen at Mud Lake in the Britannia Conservation Area. Outside the Ottawa area, an adult Bald Eagle was seen on a nest along the Ottawa River at the mouth of the Bonnechere River on the 24th, and closer to home a Red-shouldered Hawk was spotted in the Larose forest the same day. The downtown PEREGRINE FALCON Watch is in full swing and the single fledgling has required quite a bit of attention as it has been flying a lot in recent days. Volunteers are still needed to cover several shifts and anyone interested in helping out may contact falcon watch coordinator Eve Ticknor at 613-737-7551 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Three Upland Sandpipers were reported from the road to Constance Bay past the Dunrobin Rd. turn-off on the 17th and another was seen along Diamondview Rd. north of March Rd. this week as well. Also on the 17th, in the Whistler Rd. area in Constance Bay, 1 adult Red-headed Woodpecker and an adult Pileated Woodpecker feeding a youngster were observed. The SEDGE WREN colony at the railroad tracks by #4104 Torbolton Ridge Rd. appears so be doing well this year, a family of Brown Thrashers was seen along Rifle Rd. near Shirley's Bay on the 18th. Warbler reports on the 23rd and 24th included Mourning and Canada in the Larose forest, and a singing male PALM WARBLER along the Mer Bleue boardwalk. And after a year of hardly any reports at all, a small number of Evening Grosbeaks were seen at the west end of Clarence Cambridge Rd. in the Larose forest, also on the 24th. Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript
