- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 06 August 2007 * ONOT0708.06
- Birds mentioned American Wigeon Blue-winged Teal Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Ring-necked Duck Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Green Heron Northern Goshawk Semipalmated Plover Solitary Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Upland Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Bonaparte's Gull Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Black-throated Green Warbler - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 06 August 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 @ 6:00 pm, MONDAY AUGUST 7, 2007 This is Chris Lewis reporting. Not a lot of change yet on the local birding scene, but a few more species are on the move. On the 5th at the Almonte sewage lagoons there were 7 species of shorebirds in the 1st cell, including 1 Solitary and 1 Baird's Sandpiper and 2 Wilson's Snipe. Also noted in the other ponds were Northern Pintail, Bufflehead and a family group of Green Herons. The same day in a field along Franktown Rd. southwest of Munster Rd. there were 6 Upland Sandpipers being buzzed by a Northern Goshawk. The habitat along the Ottawa River at the east end of Andrew Haydon Park and on the west side of the Shirley's Bay causeway is improving as more mudflats are becoming exposed. Ten species of shorebirds were at the base of the causeway on the 6th including 1 Semipalmated Plover, approx. 50 Lesser and 5 Greater Yellowlegs, 4 Solitary and several Semipalmated Sandpipers, 6 Least and 1 Stilt Sandpiper, 1 Short-billed Dowitcher and a Wilson's Snipe. Increasing numbers of waterfowl here included Green-winged and Blue-winged Teal, American Wigeon and Northern Pintail. A small group of warblers in the Shirley's Bay woods included Nashville, Northern Parula and Black-throated Green. A juvenile Bonaparte's Gull was at Andrew Haydon on the 6th as well. Additionally on the 5th at the large quarry pond along Moodie Dr. south of Trail Rd. there were half a dozen Ring-necked Ducks, 21 Ruddy Ducks and 2 Pectoral Sandpipers. A reminder to all who visit the Shirley's Bay causeway: Please call the Range Control office at (613) 991-5740 for permission to access this area. The Moodie Dr. pond is in an active private sand and gravel quarry, so please view the birds from the gate only. Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript
