- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 04 September 2007 * ONOT0709.04
- Birds mentioned Common Goldeneye GRAY PARTRIDGE Wild Turkey American Bittern GREAT EGRET Black-crowned Night-Heron Turkey Vulture Osprey Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Common Moorhen American Coot Whimbrel Ruddy Turnstone RED KNOT Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Red-necked Phalarope Bonaparte's Gull Black-billed Cuckoo Red-headed Woodpecker OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER Carolina Wren Nashville Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Pine Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 04 September 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, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 2007 This is Chris Lewis reporting. After a couple of weeks of high activity, it seems like a giant broom has swept the majority of migrant birds out of our area, leaving only a few crumbs. Some tasty crumbs to be sure, but on the whole the birding scene has been quite subdued since Aug. 25th. Of interest were the following: GRAY PARTRIDGE continue to be soon occasionally at the St. Albert sewage lagoons, but very little else other than common puddle ducks. These lagoons as well as those at Casselman, Embrun and Winchester have been visited on several days up until Sept. 2nd, and most of the ponds have high water, supporting very few water birds and virtually no shorebirds. At the Almonte lagoons on the 2nd however, there was a juvenile Red-necked Phalarope. The Ottawa River continues to be the hot-spot for both birds and birders, from the Deschenes rapids to the west side of the Shirley's Bay causeway. At least 3 GREAT EGRETS were at Shirley's Bay on the 2nd, and 15 spp. of shorebirds have seen here over the past week in small numbers. A Whimbrel flew over on the 31st, a Ruddy Turnstone was at the east end of Andrew Haydon Park on the 1st (but not on the 2nd ) and a single RED KNOT was still here after 3 had been seen a few days before. On the 1st, an immature Peregrine Falcon and a Merlin stirred up everything at Shirley's Bay, and approx. a dozen Bonaparte's Gulls were feeding in the Deschenes rapids on the 2nd. Three GREAT EGRETS were also seen at Andrew Haydon Park as well as the Bruce Pit on Cedarview Rd. today the 4th. At the "old burn" site along Whistler Rd. in Constance Bay, 2 adult Red-headed Woodpeckers were present on the 26th, and an adult an a juvenile were seen interacting here on the 2nd. An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was found at Shirley's Bay on the 29th, a Carolina Wren again appeared a feeder in the Carlingwood area during the past week, and although a few warbler species and several Scarlet Tanagers were seen in the Britannia Conservation area on the 1st, by the 2nd it was obvious that the first big push of songbird migration was mostly over....until the next seasonal wave moves through. The OFNC's annual Seedathon was held on Sept. 2nd. 120 spp. were found by the intrepid participants who boldly went out to find anything they could in the OFNC 50 km circle on a beautiful but rather static day. Some Seedathon highlights were: 13 spp. of waterfowl including a surprise Common Goldeneye in the river channel at Britannia; 3 Wild Turkeys in the Munster area; 5 spp. of herons including American Bittern, GREAT EGRET and Black-crowned Night-Heron; both Common Moorhen and American Coot at the Embrun lagoons; a good number of raptors including several Turkey Vultures, Ospreys and Red-tailed, Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawks, American Kestrels and a Merlin; 13 spp. of shorebirds including 4 Solitary, 2 Baird's, 2 Pectoral, and 3 Stilt Sandpipers and the aforementioned RED KNOT; 10 spp. of warblers including Nashville, Cape May, Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green, Pine and Blackpoll; and 10 spp. of sparrows with Eastern Towhee and Field Sparrow seen on the Thomas Dolan Parkway in the Carp Hills and Clay-coloured, Grasshopper and Vesper in the fields south of the International Airport. Also noteworthy was a "first" for this team's Seedathon - a juvenile Black-billed Cuckoo south of the Airport.. Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdshow.htm ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm
