- RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Gatineau * 24 September 2007 * ONOT0709.24
- Birds mentioned Snow Goose GREAT EGRET Peregrine Falcon SANDHILL CRANE Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Veery GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH Swainson's Thrush American Pipit White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 24 September 2007 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 & transcriber: Chris Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet: Gordon Pringle [EMAIL PROTECTED] THE OFNC BIRD STATUS LINE @ 11:00 pm, MONDAY SEPT. 24, 2007 This is Chris Lewis reporting. Not much excitement on the local birding scene this week, but who could complain about the beautiful weather? The most interesting reports were of 2 SANDHILL CRANES at Shirley's Bay on the evening of Sept. 20th, 3 Snow Geese and a blue-morph Snow Goose at Andrew Haydon Park on the 23rd, several overnight movements of hundreds of Swainson's Thrushes from the 17th to the 21st, with a few Veerys and GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHes heard among them, several American Pipits in various locations, and an influx of White-throated and White-crowned Sparrows also during the past week. Shorebirds reported since the 17th included up to 5 Black-bellied and 2 American Golden Plovers on the mud-flats along the Ottawa River between the north end of Scrivens St. and the east end of Andrew Haydon Park. On the 22nd, 14 American Golden Plovers were reported from the Plaisance area on the Quebec side, along with a GREAT EGRET and a Peregrine Falcon. The Almonte sewage lagoons west of Ottawa hosted several "Yellowlegs spp." on the 21st, and at the Richmond Conservation Area off Eagleson Rd. on the 23rd there were (quote from observer) "several Pectoral Sandpipers along with the commoner species of sandpipers and plovers". A Stilt Sandpiper was seen at the Richmond site on the 22nd but not the 23rd. Thank you - Good Birding! - End transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list ONTBIRDS@hwcn.org For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdshow.htm ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm
