- RBA
* Ontario
* Ottawa/Gatineau
* 25 January 2004
* ONOT0401.25
- Birds mentioned
Merlin
GRAY PARTRIDGE
Wild Turkey
Snowy Owl
Barred Owl
Short-eared Owl
Horned Lark
American Crow
Bohemian Waxwing
Northern Shrike
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting
Pine Grosbeak
White-winged Crossbill
Common Redpoll
HOARY REDPOLL
Pine Siskin
Evening Grosbeak
- Transcript
hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
date: 25 January 2004
number: 613-860-9000 press 2
to report: 613-860-9000 press #
coverage: Ottawa/Gatineau (Can. Nat. Capital Reg.), E.Ont., W.Que.
compilers : Chris Lewis
: Terry Higgins
: Colin Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
transcriber: Michelle Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
internet : Gordon Pringle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OFNC BIRD STATUS LINE SUNDAY JANUARY 25 AT 7:30 PM
This is Chris Lewis reporting.
The Ottawa area remains in the grip of the deep freeze with little
relief in the forecast.
Most of the interesting reported this past week were east of
Ottawa. On the 24th, 13 GRAY PARTRIDGE were spotted at the
intersection of Frank Kenney Rd and County Rd 28, immediately
south of exit 88 off highway 417. They were in a farm field with
many derelict cars.
On the 24th, a single Snowy Owl was in a field between Concession
19 and Concession 20, east of County Rd 8 between Casselman and
Ste Rose. Also on the 25th, a Barred Owl was at the Jack Pine
Trail feeder and 2 Short-eared Owls were flying at dusk in the
traditional area along the S-curve of Earl Armstrong Rd.
Going back to the east, there was a group of 6 Lapland Longspurs
at a farm at the northeast corner of Frank Kenney and Regimbald
Rd, with small numbers of Horned Larks and Snow Buntings on both
the 24 and 25th. Just further east along Regimbald on the 25th, at
least 2 HOARY REDPOLLS were among approximately 300 Common
Redpolls in a weedy field.
In the Larose Forest on the 20th there was 1 Northern Shrike, 12
Pine Grosbeaks, small flocks of White-winged Crossbills, 1 Pine
Siskin and many Common Redpolls. Evening Grosbeaks are still
present here as well.
The mid-winter Crow roost in the vicinity of the Children's
Hospital and Ottawa General Hospital has numbered into the
multiple thousands ie a lot of crows. Over the past couple of
weeks they were usually seen before dusk.
From the west end of Ottawa, a few Wild Turkeys were seen at Berry
Side Rd north of the Fifth Line on the 18th.
A flock of approximately 80 Bohemian Waxwings was at Herzberg and
Legget Rds north of Carling Ave on the 25th.
The Hilda Rd feeder at Shirley's Bay had 1 HOARY REDPOLL on the
25th with small numbers of Common Redpolls. A Merlin was also
here on the 19th. Pine Grosbeaks were also in the area in the
small numbers.
And from north of the river, 2 HOARY REDPOLLS were amongst Common
Redpolls at the feeder behind the Canadian Museum of Nature
Collections Building on Pink Rd in Aylmer, just east of Vanier Rd.
Thank-you. Good birding.
- End transcript
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