My mom and I spotted a flock of 250-300 Bohemian Waxwings on Rifle Rd, Ottawa
at about 12:30 today.
Cheers, Ben
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Hello, birders.
Highlights, details below --- Over 1000 Canvasback (Jan. 11), King Eider (Jan.
10), Little (Jan. 9), Lesser Black-backed (Jan. 9, 10), Glaucous (Jan. 8, 9,
10), Iceland (Jan. 8, 9, 10), Thayer's Gull (Jan. 9), Common Redpoll (Jan. 11).
I greatly enjoyed my trip to Western New Y
There were bluebirds briefly near the road in the valley at Thirty Rd in
Lincoln today until they were chased off by a mockingbird. I have seen them
other years and they appear to be feeding on sumac berries or looking for water
in the creek. For you winter listers they could be anywhere up an
The Ontario Bird Records Committee has received many reports this year
that are in the process of being reviewed so that they can be published
in the OBRC Annual Report this summer in Ontario Birds. Many sightings
are well documented including the Black-whistling Whistling-Duck from
Prince Edwa
Greetings Ontbirders
The Boreal Chickadee is still being seen as of 11:45 today. Both Doug McRae and
I located the bird at different times from the road at 74 Bayshore Rd in a lone
spruce tree. It seems to be travelling from the government dock area to my
place at 83 Bayshore Rd checking the sp
At -21C this morning it will be a better day to feederwatch than scan the fog
for waterfowl. However, last weekend the KFN participated in the annual
Mid-winter Waterfowl Count and tallied 113,000 birds between Ivy Lea and Prince
Edward Point. Almost half of these were the 48,000 Greater Scaup
The birding situation was relatively unchanged this week.
The following reports were received:
Gray Jay: two were at Spruce Bog Boardwalk on
January 12.
Boreal Chickadee: two or three were seen and heard in
the parking lot at Spruce Bog Boardwalk on January 12.
Northern Shrike: one was at km 49
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