[Ontbirds] Ottawa/Gatineau - 21 Oct 10 - weekly update

Ontario/Quebec Ottawa/Gatineau 21 October 2010 Hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club Phone number: 613-860-9000 For the Bird Status Line PRESS * (star) To report bird sightings PRESS 1 (one) Coverage: Ottawa/Gatineau (Canada National Capital Region) E. Ontario, W.Quebec Compiler transcriber:

[Ontbirds] Dark-Eyed Junco Variant 282 Springbank Road London

At the rear of the Prime motors Dealership is a ravine that is part of the 'Coves'. There are copious amounts of Dark-eyed Juncos there daily now. Among them was one bird with white wing bars. Sibley calls it a Slate-coloured variant adult. All of its features in form and colour are the same

[Ontbirds] Reesor Pond Cackling Geese

21.10.10 - at 1.30pm - a neat 'family' of 7 Cackling Geese - smaller-headed than usual [to my eyes] and easily identified without bins among 1000 or so Canadas - Reesor Pond lies just North of Hwy 407 on Reesor Road in Markham

[Ontbirds] Boreal Chickadee at Presqu'ile

Greetings Ontbirders, Early this afternoon, my father Don and I heard and then spotted a Boreal Chickadee in a small grouping of Black-cappeds at Presqu'ile's Owen Point. Other birds of note from our outing include 1 Snow Bunting on the gravel bar off Owen Point and at least 2 Lapland Longspurs on

[Ontbirds] Black Backed Woodpecker

The female Black Backed Woodpecker originally reported by Bruce DiLabio on the Oct and rereported by Marc St.Onge on 16 Oct was relocated by Deborah McKeand and Ken Garrett 21 Oct. The bird, at the Mer Bleue coservation area, was high in the tall pine trees near the picnic pavillion close to

[Ontbirds] Presqu'ile Birding Report for Week Ending October 21, 2010.

Today's cold front has brought a spate of winter birds, including a couple of rarities, to Presqu'ile Provincial Park. As well, the past week has offered steady birding throughout the Park, albeit not in the numbers of a month earlier, the only exception being the large number of ducks off

[Ontbirds] Algonquin Park Report: 21 October 2010

Many people on the Visitor Centre viewing deck got to view a rarely observed sight on both Saturday and Sunday (October 16 and 17): moose mating in the Sunday Creek bog. At least one American marten has been seen irregularly eating sunflower seed at the Visitor Centre. More birders were in the

[Ontbirds] Boreal Chickadee Erindale Park Mississauga

I found 1 this afternoon about 4:15 with a large flock of chickadees (about 20) and kinglets (about 30 golden and 10 ruby-crowned) I first saw it close but only for about 5 seconds, after which I lost track of it. I refound it about half an hour later (the flock was very spread out), watched it

[Ontbirds] Chatham-Kent's 2 Cattle Egrets

Birders : The 2 Cattle Egrets remain here still, after arriving a week ago. The cattle have become much more accustomed to them and tend to ignore them now. If the temperature does not go too low, and the grasshoppers + other insects thrive , perhaps the egrets will even stay longer.

[Ontbirds] WNY Buffalo Bird Report 21 Oct 2010

- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 10/21/2010 * NYBU1010.21 - Birds mentioned --- Please submit email to dfsuggs localnet com --- RUFF WHITE-EYED VIREO BRANT Lesser Scaup White-winged Scoter Bufflehead Bald

[Ontbirds] Quinte Area Bird Report update for October 21, 2010

Report from the Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory for the week of October 15-21, courtesy of manager David Okines. A few COMMON LOONS are flying past every day and 4 HORNED GREBES were sitting off the Point on the 20th. The 21st saw the first RED-NECKED GREBE of the fall near the harbour

[Ontbirds] HSR: Holiday Beach Conservation Area (21 Oct 2010) 1543 Raptors

Holiday Beach Conservation Area Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 21, 2010 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Turkey

[Ontbirds] Kingston area birds to Oct. 21, 2010

Locally the interest and numbers of birds seems to have shifted from warblers and shorebirds to raptors and waterfowl. Today off Amherst Island there were 25 Common Loons and 24 Horned Grebes. There was also a Red-necked Grebe and a Red-throated Loon. A Common Loon remained on Devil Lake at

[Ontbirds] HSR: Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch (21 Oct 2010) 491 Raptors

Hawk Cliff Hawkwatch Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada Daily Raptor Counts: Oct 21, 2010 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Black Vulture