Ontario/Quebec Ottawa/Gatineau 31 October 2013 Coverage: Ottawa/Gatineau (Canada National Capital Region) E. Ontario, W. Quebec Compiler & transcriber Bob Cermak [email protected] or [email protected] You may be interested in the following OFNC Ottawa area birding field trip (members and prospective members are welcome) Sunday, 3 November, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. West end water birds Leader: Bernie Ladouceur Meet: near Pizza Pizza, northeast corner of the Lincoln Fields Shopping Centre parking lot off Richmond Road. Our focus will be loons, grebes, geese, scoters, other diving ducks, and gulls. We'll look at the other birds too! The trip will go rain, snow, or shine. Dress more warmly than you would usually as we will be standing for periods of time in exposed areas; bring binoculars and a telescope, if you have one; bring a drink and a snack, if you think you will need it. GOLDEN EAGLE (1 juv) was seen along March Valley Rd north of Klondike Rd (there may be the remains of a deer carcass near the airplane wreck) on the 25th and likely the same bird on the 26th on Thomas Dolan pkwy at Constance Creek and on the 27th at the same location on March Valley Rd, at the north end of Barry Sdrd and at where Riddell Dr becomes 6th Line Rd. March Valley Rd and Klondike Rd have been active lately. On the 25th there were NORTHERN HARRIER (2), BALD EAGLE (2), RED-TAILED HAWK (2), COMMON RAVEN (2), AMERICAN CROW (3), AMERICAN ROBIN (14), AMERICAN PIPIT (12) and RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD (26). The Ottawa River continues to be very active with a good varity of migrating waterfowl best seen from Shirleys Bay, Dick Bell Park, Andrew Haydon Park, the Lakeside Gardens pier, Britannia Point (east end of Cassels St) and Bate Island. BARROW'S GOLDENEYE (1m 1f) were seen on the Ottawa River from the Remic Rapids lookout and a RED-THROATED LOON was seen from the Shirleys Bay parking area on the 28th. A OFNC trip along the Ottawa River on the 26th found 52 species, all three SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, HORNED and RED-NECKED GREBE, SNOW BUNTINGS (flocks of up to 100), BRANT, CANADA, and SNOW GOOSE, RUDDY DUCK (125+ at the Moodie Dr pond), COMMON LOON, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and GREATER YELLOWLEGS (1 at the Moodie Dr pond). A OFO trip on the 25th had most of those species and CACKLING GOOSE (for a 4 goose day) and PEREGRINE FALCON. Dow's Lake continues to be active. On the 27th there were CORMORANTS, CANADA GOOSE, GREEN-WINGED TEAL (1), MALLARD, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, COMMON (12) and HOODED (30) MERGANSER, SURF SCOTER (1) and GREATER YELLOWLEGS (1). Flocks of SNOW GEESE are beginning to move through our area, (300 to 400) were seen on the fields near Eagleson Rd and Rushmore Rd on the 28th and thousand's were seen in the Con 20 and hwy 138 area east of Casselman. Interesting sightings: - GRAY CATBIRD (1) Central Experimental Farm Arboretum on the 25th and 29th - YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER (few) continued at the Britannia Conservation Area on the 25th - BUDGERIGAR (1 escapee) was found at Britannia Point on the 27th - BLUE-HEADED VIREO was reported on Petrie Island on the 27th - NORTHERN SHRIKE and PECTORAL SANDPIPER (6) on Earl Armstrong Rd west of Bowesville Rd on the 27th - ICELAND GULL (1 juv) was seen at the Russell landfill on the 29th - FOX SPARROW (3) were found at Shirleys Bay (probably Hilda Rd) on the 30th - SANDHILL CRANE (30) continue to be present on Milton Rd and Smith Rd on the 30th - HORNED GREBE (1 of 2) was heard vocalizing near the Dick Bell jetty on the 30th Thank you to everyone who contributed bird observations! _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup
