- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 22 July 2007 * ONOT0707.22
- Birds mentioned Gray Partridge LEAST BITTERN Black-crowned Night-Heron Merlin Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Phalarope Ring-billed Gull LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL Carolina Wren PALM WARBLER Evening Grosbeak - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 22 July 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 @ 5:30 PM, SUNDAY JULY 22, 2007 This is Chris Lewis reporting. Another very slow week for local birding but a few more shorebirds have been reported with Killdeer, Lesser Yellowlegs, Spotted Sandpiper and Least Sandpiper in the majority. Others in smaller numbers included Greater Yellowlegs, Solitary Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper and Wilson's Phalarope. Short-billed Dowitchers were reported last week from the Ottawa River at the east end of Andrew Haydon Park as well as the High Falls Conservation Area in Casselman, and the Almonte sewage lagoons. however, after heavy rains on July 20th, the water levels on the river, the sewage lagoons, and at High Falls were very high with less than ideal feeding habitat. In other reports...a lone Gray Partridge was seen wandering along the roadside at Albion and Lester Rds on the 19th, LEAST BITTERNS were noted in the Constance Creek wetland along Thomas Dolan Parkway on the 11th and 15th and at the Marais aux Grenouillettes west of Masson, Quebec on the 21st, and Black-crowned Night-Herons were reported on several occasions including a juvenile at the Ring-billed Gull colony in the Deschenes rapids and a pair of adults on the Rideau River at Strathcona Park. Merlins have been very vocal in the Carlington area over the past couple of days. An immature LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was at Andrew Haydon Park on the 11th. On the 15th a singing Carolina Wren was discovered in a backyard on Belair Dr. in the Copeland Park neighbourhood, the breeding PALM WARBLERS in the Mer Bleue Conservation Area have fledged young as of at least the 15th, and a singing male Evening Grosbeak was noted along Burnt Lands Rd. off old Hwy 44 on the 18th. Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript
