Yesterday, while leaving the parking lot of Staples, I had a Northern
Mockingbird fly across Brentcliffe Rd narrowly missing my car.
I have seen Mockingbirds in the area before (springtime) but closer to the
Storage Now storage building (Brentcliffe Rd / Research Rd).
Rob Miller
Toronto, ON
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Ottawa/Gatineau 04Feb07... Barrow's Goldeneye, Black-backed
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- RBA
* Ontario
* Ottawa/Gatineau
* 04 February 2007
* ONOT0702.04
- Birds mentioned
Wood Duck
Mallard
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE
Hooded Merganser
Peregrine Falcon
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Belted Kingfisher
BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER
Northern Flicker
Horned Lark
Carolina Wren
Bohemian Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing
Snow Bunting
Evening Grosbeak
- Transcript
hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
date: 04 February 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 @ 5:30 pm, SUNDAY FEBRUARY 4, 2007
This is Chris Lewis reporting.
A very quiet week, punctuated by a few interesting reports.
On the Ottawa River on the 3rd, a male BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was seen again at
Remic rapids. This bird has been playing "find me if you can", as it seems
to be unpredictably dividing its time at this location with visits to the
Rideau River behind the Tennis Club. A male Wood Duck and a Belted
Kingfisher were still at Graham Creek behind the recreational centre on
Woodridge Cr. in the Bayshore area on the 3rd, a male Hooded Merganser was
on the Rideau behind the Tennis Club the same day, and an adult Peregrine
Falcon was feeding on a Mallard at the Deschenes rapids lookout on the 1st.
Among the many Great Black-backed Gulls on the Ottawa River on the morning
of the 3rd, there were 2 Iceland, 1 adult Lesser Black-backed and 11
Glaucous Gulls, and on the Rideau River near the 417 overpass
on the 4th there were 4 Glaucous and 1 Iceland Gull.
The area near the filtration plant in Britannia Conservation Area continues
to host a Northern Flicker as of the 4th and between 50 - 60 Cedar Waxwings
were here on the 3rd and 4th. On the Quebec side in the town of Buckingham,
a BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER was discovered in a forest at the end of Haspect
St. on the 3rd.
Numbers of Horned Larks have begun to show up in rural areas especially east
of the city, along with flocks of Snow Buntings including a spectacular
flock of at least 5000 birds west of O'Toole Rd. on the 31st. A Carolina
Wren re-visited a feeder in Forest Park, Embrun, on the 3rd. Two Bohemian
Waxwings - the 1st report this winter - were feeding on Buckthorn berries at
the Remic rapids lookout on the 1st, and at least 1 Evening Grosbeak was
seen again near a feeder on St. Felix Rd. north of the Larose Forest on the
3rd.
Thank you - Good Birding!
- End transcript
