From: Gordon Pringle To: Subject: Ottawa/Hull 09Oct00 ROSS' GOOSE Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 9:38 AM - RBA * Ontario * Ottawa/Hull * 09 October 2000 * ONOT0011.09 - Birds mentioned Red-throated Loon Snow Goose ROSS' GOOSE Brant Redhead Oldsquaw White-winged Scoter Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Sharp-shinned Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Peregrine Falcon Hudsonian Godwit Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Dunlin Thayer's Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Great Horned Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Eastern Phoebe Hermit Thrush - Transcript hotline: Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club date: 09 October 2000 number: 613-860-9000 to report: 613-825-1231 compiler: Michael Tate michael.tate@sympatico.ca coverage: Ottawa/Hull (Can. National Capital Reg.), E.Ont., W.Que. transcriber: Michelle Martin PMMartin@netcom.ca transcriber: Colin Bowen colin.bowen@sympatico.ca) internet: Gordon Pringle parula@magma.ca OFNC BIRD STATUS LINE - MONDAY OCTOBER 9 AT 6 PM An immature ROSS' GOOSE was discovered today in the wet area south of the Nepean Dump. This was an immature bird. It can be difficult to find - it is an extremely small goose - it is only about the size of the Herring Gulls in the area and blends in very well when it is with the gulls in the area. Also present were 11 Snow Geese today and on the Ottawa River, there were 3 White-winged Scoter and an Oldsquaw. A Lesser Black-backed Gull and numbers of Redhead and Ruddy Duck were also at the wet area south of the Nepean Dump. In the woods at Britannia today, a Northern Saw-whet Owl was discovered. There were good numbers of Hermit Thrushes with at least 12 being seen in the small area of Britannia woods today and at least 6 Eastern Phoebe were also present. Yesterday, Sunday the 8th, two Red-throated Loons over flew Ottawa Beach, or Andrew Haydon Park East. A Brant was seen on the beach at Ottawa Beach both the of the last two days and there were 7 Red-breasted Mergansers on the river. Two Bald Eagles were seen at Shirley's Bay yesterday, the 8th, and there were also numbers of other hawks around including Sharp-shinned Hawk, both Red-tail and Rough-legged Hawk and two separate sightings of Peregrine Falcon. At Shirley's Bay in shorebirds there was Least Sandpiper, White-rumped Sandpiper, Dunlin and the Hudsonian Godwit which was discovered last weekend was still there. A Thayer's Gull was discovered yesterday on the berm at Ottawa Beach and in Britannia, also on the 8th, a Great Horned Owl was being mobbed by very many crows. If you have information you would like to share with the Bird Status line, please call 825-1231. Leave your name, telephone number, details of the sightings, including date and location, and any other pertinent facts. If you would like more information on the club and its activities, please call 722-3050. Thank-you. Good birding. - End transcript For Birdeast archives, and to join, leave, or change address, see: http://listserv.arizona.edu/lsv/www/birdeast.html