- RBA
* Ontario
* Ottawa/Gatineau
* 09 March 2008
* ONOT0803.09
- Birds mentioned
Canada Goose
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Wild Turkey
Red-tailed Hawk
GYRFALCON
Ring-billed Gull
RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER
Northern Shrike
Tufted Titmouse
Bohemian Waxwing
White-throated Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
House Finch
- Transcript
hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
date: 09 March 2008
Number: 613-860-9000
For the status line PRESS * (star)
To report bird sightings, PRESS 1 (one)
Rare bird alerts are now included in the introductory message
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, SUNDAY MARCH 9, 2008
This is Chris Lewis reporting.
While winter and spring duked it out, blessing us with strong winds from all
directions and at least 50 cm of snow by the week's end, an inkling of spring
migration began during the calm between the storms. From the 5th to the
7th, a lone Canada Goose showed up in a field at Carling and Herzberg
Aves., a few more Ring-billed Gulls began to stake out parking lots, a
White-throated Sparrow made a brief visit to a feeder near the Woodroffe
campus of Algonquin College, and a male Red-winged Blackbird dropped in at
a feeder in Manotick. On the 7th, the wintering female HARLEQUIN DUCK on
the Ottawa River north of Bate Island was joined by 2 female Bufflehead, a
male Hooded Merganser and several Common Mergansers, groups of
approx. a dozen Wild Turkeys were seen at Carling and Herzberg and along
Eagleson Rd. north of Fallowfield, and 6 Red-tailed Hawks were noted near
the Trail Rd. landfill the same day.
There have been no reports of the dark morph GYRFALCON since March 1st,
however a Grey morph Gyr was seen flying north over the Ottawa River
Parkway east of Woodroffe Ave. on the 3rd, and possibly the same bird was
seen flying over the Thomas Dolan Parkway at Berry Side Rd. on the 7th. The
Tufted Titmouse in Forest Park (Embrun) is still surviving nicely as
of the 9th, in
spite of the Northern Shrike that appeared on the 8th (this may be the same
shrike that stirred up the customers here last December). Bohemian
Waxwings appear to be moving through again with flocks of up to 200 birds
noted in various locations including the Britannia Conservation Area, and a
yellow variant House Finch came to a feeder in Rockcliffe on the 5th.
Farther east near Wiliamstown, ON, the female RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER
and the male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD were still coming to a feeder on
County Rd. 19 as of the 7th.
Thank you - Good Birding!
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