Early afternoon, Nov. 19, there was a rough-legged hawk (dark morph) hunting over a field south of Carling Avenue between Moodie Drive and Rifle Road (Ottawa). We watched as it hovered, then flew forward a distance over the field before hovering again, and so on, until it flew north across the road and over above a treed area.
At Mud Lake (Britannia), there were a large number of ring-necked ducks, hooded mergansers, and a smaller group of wood ducks (etc.). Kelly Hislop and Rod Bhar Ottawa, ON Directions to Carling Ave: Take Moodie Drive north off of Highway 417. Turn west (left) on Carling Avenue toward Rifle Road. (The stretch of road between Carling/Moodie and Carling/Rifle Rd. is about 2.4 km.) Direction to Mud Lake: Take Britannia Road north off of Carling Ave. Where Britannia Road ends at a t-junction, turn right onto Cassels Street and continue approximately a half kilometre. Mud Lake is south of the street. _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
