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2015-07-05 Thread Hugh Currie
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[Ontbirds] Ottawa: Little Egret info.

2015-07-05 Thread bruce dilabio
Hi Everyone As you all know the Little Egret decided to change its morning routine and wasn’t present at Andrew Haydon Park this morning. A number of us checked other locations including Britannia Point/Pinecrest Creek, the Ottawa River shoreline from Britannia to Shirley’s Bay, Moodie Drive P

[Ontbirds] Little Egret. Ottawa. NO !!

2015-07-05 Thread Michael
After receiving a couple of requests about travelling to Ottawa for the Little Egret I just wanted to update Bruce DiLabio's post of this morning. The bird did NOT show up at Andrew Haydon Park after several days of arriving there first thing in the morning. I checked a number of likely locatio

[Ontbirds] Marsh birds. Shirley's Bay. Ottawa

2015-07-05 Thread Michael
This morning at the Shirley's Bay dyke the habitat was very good for the coming shorebird migration and a number of marsh birds were seen and heard. American Bittern Least Bittern Marsh Wrens at least 6 Common Gallinules with young Great Egrets. 10 roosting in a tree Caspian Tern 2 Common Tern.

[Ontbirds] Ottawa: Little Egret update e

2015-07-05 Thread bruce dilabio
Hi everyone As of 6:00am, NO Little Egret at Andrew Haydon Park. Good birding Bruce Bruce Di Labio 400 Donald B. Munro Drive P.O. Box 538 Carp, Ontario, K0A 1L0 Cell: 613-715-2571 ___ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the