I spent this morning (Thursday) birding along the Ottawa River in the
west end of Ottawa. Britannia Ridge was really hopping with birds.
Unfortunately, variety was not great. Warblers mostly consisted of three
very well-represented species: yellow-rumped, Nashville and
black-throated green. I also had one or two of palm, parula,
blackburnian and ovenbird. There were lots of chipping sparrows and a
few whitethroats and juncos. At one point a merlin zipped by. The other
spots in Britannia that I checked were quiet.
There were a half-dozen shorebirds on the shore of the Ottawa River at
the end of the street named Scrivens a bit further west. They included a
ruddy turnstone, a Baird's sandpiper and a black-bellied plover. Ottawa
Beach/east end of Andrew Haydon park appeared to be devoid of
shorebirds, and was a lot muddier underfoot than in recent days. I was
running out of time when I got to Shirleys Bay dyke so I did not go too
far along it. By its own high standards, it was somewhat disappointing,
with relatively few birds and most of them far from the dyke. There was
no sign of the Hudsonian godwits reported yesterday. However, in
addition to the usual common birds, there were two (quite distant) stilt
sandpipers and one (very distant) great egret.
Note: No sightings of peregrines this week on the Coats building at
Tunney's Pasture (at least not by me).
Paul Matthews
Ottawa
Directions:Shirley's Bay: From Ottawa take Hwy. 417 west to the Moodie
Drive exit and turn north (right) on Moodie Drive and continue to
Carling Ave. Turn left at Carling Ave. and follow Carling to Rifle Road.
Turn right (north) on Rifle Rd. Park at the lot at the end (boat
launch).
Walk back to
the road, and continue through the gate on the Department of National
Defence property. There is a trail on your right (clearly marked with
vehicle "No
Entry" signs) which heads into the woods, and, eventually to the dyke.
**** PLEASE NOTE**** YOU MUST OBTAIN PERMISSION FROM THE RANGE CONTROL
OFFICE BEFORE ENTERING THE DYKE AREA-- Call (613) 991-5740 and request
permission to visit the dyke area for birding.
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[Update - On Wednesday, September 7, the Buffalo Audubon
Society will hold their first meeting of the season at the
Iroquois Refuge. Meet at 3 PM at the Visitors Center on
Casey Road for a two hour field trip, followed by a potluck
supper at 5 PM, concluding with a 5:30 PM presentation by
the refuge manager. Visitors are welcome to attend this Buffalo
Audubon Society event. Thank you.]
Green Heron
Mute Swan
Long-tailed Duck
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Broad-winged Hawk
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plove
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Solitary Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
White-r. Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Short-b. Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
Bonaparte's Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Red-headed Wdpkr.
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Least Flycatcher
Gr. Cr. Flycatcher
Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher
Swainson's Thrush
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Chestnut-s. Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Pine Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
American Redstart
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
Dark-eyed Junco
Purple Finch
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 09/01/2005
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet dot com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Transcriber: David F. Suggs
Website: www.BOSBirding.org
Thursday, September 1, 2005
Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of
Science and this answering system was donated by the Buffalo
Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3)
for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for
instructions on how to report sightings and use this system.
To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. And, please
check the update for an announcement regarding the Buffalo
Audubon Society.
Shorebirds and warblers continue to highlight reports
received August 25 through September 1 from the Niagara
Frontier Region.
Along with great tragedy, Hurricane Katrina
has displaced seabirds from the Gulf of Mexico to unexpected
locations; be on the watch for rare species on local waters.
The BOS field trip to the Canadian shore of Lake Erie on
August 28 reported 14 shorebird species highlighted by a
WHIMBREL at Morgan's Point and a STILT SANDPIPER at Grabell
Point, both in Wainfleet. At Rock Point in Dunnville, 3
RUDDY TURNSTONES and a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, plus several LONG-
TAILED DUCKS. Nearby at the Canal Bank Road turf farms, 85
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and at least 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN-
PLOVERS.
August 31 in Fort Erie, Ontario, nine shorebirds included
RED KNOT and WHITE-R. SANDPIPER plus 250 COMMON TERNS at
Jaeger Rocks, OSPREY and RED-HEADED WDPKR. at Erie Beach,
BROAD-WINGED HAWK at Kraft Road and 6 MUTE SWANS at Stone
Mill Road. Also the 31st, at Braley and Ransomville Roads in
the Niagara County Town of Porter, eight shorebird species
were highlighted by 13 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS plus 9 BLACK-
BELLIED PLOVERS, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, 4 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS,
30 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS and numerous KILLDEER.
High counts of SANDERLINGS were noted at two Lake Erie
beaches on the 31st. 43 at Wright Park Beach at Dunkirk
Harbor, and 40 SANDERLINGS at Woodlawn Beach State Park in
Hamburg. Also in Dunkirk Harbor this week, BLACK-BELLIED
PLOVER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, 8 CASPIAN TERNS and 2 FORSTER'S
TERNS, and at Woodlawn, over 200 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, 2
CASPIAN TERNS and 3 FORSTER'S TERNS.
Fifteen shorebirds species in the Iroquois areas. At Goose
Pond, 3 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER, at Center
Marsh BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER and STILT
SANDPIPER and at Griswold and Route 77, AMERICAN GOLDEN-
PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, 7 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS and
WILSON'S SNIPE.
Nine warbler species at Amherst State Park this week
included BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, TENNESSEE WARBLER, CHESTNUT-S.
WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER,
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, BL. AND W. WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART
and WILSON'S WARBLER, plus a GREEN HERON, rarely found at
this location, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR.
FLYCATCHER, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED
VIREO, BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER and the season's first SWAINSON'S
THRUSH. In Orchard Park, at Birdsong Park Town Park, eight
warblers highlighted by 2 PINE WARBLERS, likely of local
origin at this time, plus CANADA WARBLER and PURPLE FINCH.
Also of note this week - in the Chautauqua County Town of
Sheridan, a new high count of 8 sub-adult BALD EAGLES at
Saint Columbans on Route 5. Small numbers of COMMON
NIGHTHAWKS at several locations, with a maximum of 45 over
Eggertsville in Amherst. YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO in Clarence.
And, on Lake Road in Wilson, an early DARK-EYED JUNCO.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 8.
Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may
report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and
reporting to Dial-a-Bird.
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