- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 11 June 2005 * ONOT0506.11
- Birds mentioned Pied-billed Grebe American Bittern Snow Goose Peregrine Falcon Common Moorhen American Coot SANDHILL CRANE Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs HUDSONIAN GODWIT Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope Black Tern Marsh Wren CERULEAN WARBLER LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 11 June 2005 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 : Chris Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] transcriber: Chris Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet : Gordon Pringle [EMAIL PROTECTED] OFNC BIRD STATUS LINE - JUN 11 2005 AT 3:00 This is Chris Lewis reporting. A week of unseasonably high temperatures and humidity made for low activity. However, a few interesting sightings were reported. A LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH was still present and singing in Gatineau Park on the morning of June 10th, below the Mackenzie King Estate, along the Water Fall Trail near the intersection with the Larriault Trail. A CERULEAN WARBLER also continues to sing on territory, along the Gatineau Parkway below the Etienne Brule Lookout. At least one ridiculously late, or lost, Snow Goose was still on the Ottawa River west of the Champlain bridge at Parc Brebeuf on the 6th, and 4 Semipalmated Sandpipers and 3 Sanderlings were at this location as well. On the 8th, seven SANDHILL CRANES were seen flying over Bear Brook Rd. A visit to the Marais aux Grenouillettes west of Masson, Quebec, produced good numbers of marsh birds including Pied-billed Grebe, American Bittern, American Coot, Common Moorhen, Black Tern, and Marsh Wren. Back on the 6th at the Alfred sewage lagoons there were 10 species of shorebirds including a HUDSONIAN GODWIT, 1 Black-bellied Plover, 20 Semipalmated Plovers, 3 Greater Yellowlegs, 60 Semipalmated Sandpipers and 1 Wilson's Phalarope. Please contact Richard Villeneuve at the township office in Alfred for a permit to enter these lagoons, at (613) 679-2292. Songbird migration in our area is largely over, with most of our common breeding species going about their business of producing and raising young....and speaking of young birds...the two downtown Peregrine Falcon chicks were successfully banded on June 10th, and the Falcon Watch commenced today June 11th. To help out with the Falcon Watch, please contact Falcon Watch Coordinator Eve Ticknor at (613) 737-7551, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], or Volunteer Coordinator Marie Clausen at (613) 234-3002, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript
