Please note the following corrections to the message I posted earlier today:
Re: RED PHALAROPES on the Ottawa River - FIVE (not 4) were seen on the
Ottawa River on 26 Sept.
Re: adult PARASITIC JAEGER on the river east of the Britannia filtration
plant - the bird was seen ONLY only the the 26th (not the 26th and 27th).
Thanks very much to Mark Gawn for setting the record straight!
Chris Lewis
Ottawa, ON
hagen...@primus.ca
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From: "Christina Lewis" <hagen...@primus.ca>
To: "OFO sightings" <ontbirds@hwcn.org>; "BIRDEAST"
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Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:05 AM
Subject: [Ontbirds] Ottawa/Gatineau - 29 Sep 10 - weekly update
Ontario/Quebec
Ottawa/Gatineau
29 September 2010
Hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
Phone number: 613-860-9000
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Coverage: Ottawa/Gatineau (Canada National Capital Region) E. Ontario, W.
Quebec
Compiler & transcriber: Chris Lewis hagen...@primus.ca, or
sighti...@ofnc.ca
It's been a very active week, with lots of highlights in the
Ottawa-Gatineau area.
More waterfowl species are beginning to arrive - on the 25th a raft of
SCAUP sp. at Shirley's Bay included 2 REDHEAD, and a pair of Redhead has
been hanging out in the east pond at Andrew Haydon Park since at least the
23rd.
From the 26th to the 28th flocks of up to 40 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS were
noted
on the Ottawa River from Shirley's Bay through Britannia.
On the 26th at least 4 COMMON LOONS were on the river off Andrew Haydon.
GREAT EGRETS continue to be reported from the river, as well as local
ponds such as the Moodie Dr. quarry pond and the Emerald Meadows area in
Kanata. Two imm. BALD EAGLES were seen again at Shirley's Bay on the 26th.
Although a significant rise in water levels on the Ottawa River has all
but obliterated the mud flats along the shorelines, shorebirds are still
about - a DUNLIN was at Shirley's Bay on the 26th, and the same day a
couple of AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS were noted at the Petersen sod farms
south of Osgoode, and a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER was among 14 mostly GREATER
YELLOWLEGS at the Richmond lagoons on Eagleson Rd. A serious influx of RED
PHALAROPES occurred on the 26th, with 1 seen at the Winchester sewage
lagoons and at least 4 on the Ottawa River; at least 3 were still present
below Deschenes rapids on the evening of the 28th.
Approx. 10 BONAPARTE'S GULLS have been present all week at Deschenes,
several LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were found on the 26th (3 along
Bankfield Rd. and 2 at the Moodie Dr. quarry pond), a FORSTER'S TERN was
reported flying west up the river from Deschenes on the 22nd, and an adult
PARASITIC JAEGER stirred things up on the river east of the Britannia
filtration plant on the afternoons of the 26th and 27th.
More GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS, another wave of VEERY, SWAINSON'S and HERMIT
THRUSHES, and lots of AMERICAN PIPITS were noted by several observers over
the past few days. WARBLERS are not done yet - sightings at Shirley's Bay
and Britannia from the 24th to the 28th included TENNESSEE,
ORANGE-CROWNED, NASHVILLE, NORTHERN PARULA, MAGNOLIA, YELLOW-RUMPED,
BLACK-THROATED GREEN, BLACKBURNIAN, PALM, BLACKPOLL, BLACK-AND-WHITE and
WILSON'S. Also noteworthy was an increase in numbers of WHITE-CROWNED and
WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS, and the first seasonal report of LAPLAND LONGSPUR
came from a field along Bankfield Rd. on the 26th.
Thank you - Good Birding!
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