Here, within, is an unofficial list of the birds seen on this month's Ottawa NWR census.
Official numbers are yet to be completed.
TIME: 8am-12pm LUNCH: 12pm-1:15pm BACKSIDE DIKE: 1:15pm-4:40pm TEMP.: 67-88+
COND.: Warm, early and warming throughout - hot & buggy - more like August than October; unseasonably warm (hot). OBS. Al & Betty, (forgive my lack of social skills), Nancy Anderson, Mike Edginton, Marc Nolls, Jim Reyda, Bert Szabo,Jack & Janet Volker, Douglas W. Vogus: (and I apologize to those I missed or did not know)
BIRDS: 97 SPECIES (give-or-take what I/we missed).
1. Canada Goose
2. Trumpeter Swan - 28
3. Wood Duck - 45+
4. Gadwall - 200+
5. American Wigeon - 3000+
6. American Black Duck - 15+
7. Mallard - 400+
8. Blue-winged Teal - 80+
9. Northern Shoveler - 20+
10. Northern Pintail - 1
11. Green-winged Teal - 2570+
12. Canvasback - 2 (1m,1f)
13. Ring-necked Duck - 2
14. Ruddy Duck - 4
15. Pied-billed Grebe - 15+
16. Double-crested Cormorant - 70+
17. Great Blue Heron
18. Great Egret
19. Snowy Egret - 7
20. Black-crowned Night Heron - 10
21. Bald Eagle - 4 (adult)
22. Northern Harrier - 5
23. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (juv. f)
24. Red-tailed Hawk - 7
25. Peregrine Falcon - 1 (imm.)
26. Common Moorhen - 4
27. American Coot - 800+ (1 leucistic bird)
28. Black-bellied Plover - 26
29. Semipalmated Plover - 3
30. Killdeer - 120+
31. American Avocet - 1
32. Greater Yellowlegs - 8
33. Lesser Yellowlegs - 40+
34. Solitary Sandpiper - 2
35. Spotted Sandpiper - 3
36. Red Knot - 3
37. Least Sandpiper - 4
38. Pectoral Sandpiper - 30+
39. Dunlin - 475
40. Short-billed Dowitcher - 15+
41. Wilson's Snipe - 40-
42. Bonaparte's Gull - 250+
43. Ring-billed Gull
44. Herring Gull - 17
45. Unid. Tern (Common/Forster's) - 5,000+ (a wave of white in very bad light)
46. Mourning Dove - 29
47. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2
48. Chimney Swift - 1
49. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1f,1*)
50. Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 (juv.)
51. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 (1m,1f)
52. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
53. Downy Woodpecker - 8
54. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 (f)
55. Northern Flicker - 12
56. Yellow-throated Vireo - 1
57. Philadelphia Vireo - 1
58. Blue Jay - (no major flights)
59. Horned Lark - 7
60. Tree Swallow - 20-
61. Unidentified Swallow - 1 (very brown - no immature Tree)
62. Tufted Titmouse - 1
63. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 (*)
64. White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 (1?,1*)
65. Brown Creeper - 3+
66. Carolina Wren - 1
67. House Wren - 2
68. Golden-crowned Kinglet - 7
69. Ruby-crowned Kinget - 3
70. Veery - 1
71. Swainson's Thrush - 1
72. Hermit Thrush - 1
73. American Robin - >35
74. Gray Catbird - 3
75. Brown Thrasher - 1
76. European Starling - 3,600+ (easily 96-percent juv. birds - west to east - non-stop flights)
77. Cedar Waxwing - 20-ish
78. Orange-crowned Warbler
79. Nashville Warbler
80. Chestnut-sided Warbler
81. Yellow-rumped Warbler - 30-ish
82. Blackpoll Warbler - 20-ish
83. Common Yellowthroat - >5
84. Song Sparrow
85. Lincoln's Sparrow - 1
86. Swamp Sparrow - >10
87. White-throated Sparrow
88. White-crowned Sparrow
89. Dark-eyed Junco - 2 (1 rather pink-sided female)
90. Northern Cardinal - >10
91. Red-winged Blackbird - 800<
92. Rusty Blackbird - 20<
93. Common Grackle - 200<
94. Brown-headed Cowbird - 1
95. House Finch - 1 (*)
96. American Goldfinch - 30>
97. House Sparrow - 6
I apologize to those left out (birds included) that I failed to mention, this is just a general list of birds seen within our fractured group of observers, (and I thank you all). Basically, just letting you know what was seen on this given date, at this given place. Migration - without a doubt - the eighth wonder of my world!
Thank You, D.W. Vogus - (see you in the field)
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