Canada Goose
Hooded Merganser - Lophodytes cucullatus
First cycle Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis
Autumn has officially arrived! Always An Adventure’s Fall Program started today and we are looking forward to a colorful and exciting season.
We started
at Petrie Island, to witness the transition between the first and second wave
of fall migration.
We had 4
species of warblers which were Bay-breasted, Blackpoll, Yellow-rumped Warbler
and Northern Parula. Kinglets were everywhere and we had both species,
Ruby-crowned and Golden-crowned.
After
Petrie Island we went to the Giroux Pond where we had Geese galore! Among the
10.000 Canada Geese were one Leucistic, one hybrid Canada/Snow Goose and 28
Greater Snow Geese.
We also
covered the surrounding open country where we had American Kestrel, Northern
Harrier, Red-tailed and Coopers Hawk. Near Navan we observed 8 Sandhill Cranes.
By lunch we
had a total of 48 species, which was a great start to the local fall birding
program.
- American Black Duck
- American Crow
- American Golden Plover
- American Robin
- American Kestrel
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Belted Kingfisher
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Blue Jay
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Canada Goose
- Common Moorhen
- Common Raven
- Coopers Hawk
- Downy Woodpecker
- European Starling
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Great Blue Heron
- Green-winged Teal
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Herring Gull
- House Sparrow
- Killdeer
- Mallard
- Mourning Dove
- Northern Flicker
- Northern Harrier
- Northern Parula
- Northern Pintail
- Osprey
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Ring-billed Gull
- Rock Pigeon
- Sandhill Crane
- Savannah Sparrow
- Semipalmated Plover
- Snow Goose
- Song Sparrow
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Turkey Vulture
- Warbling Vireo
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Wild Turkey
- Wood Duck
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias
Hooded Merganser - Lophodytes cucullatus
Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis
Sunday Sep. 25 -2011
We started
our second excursion at Andrew Haydon Park. It was foggy with very little
visibility, but that does not stop Always An Adventure. Lucky for us the weather
only got better and better as the morning progressed.
We scanned
Ottawa beach where we found a variety of the regular gulls and water fowl. We
then moved over to Shirley’s Bay where we saw an American Golden Plover,
Black-crowned Night Heron, Greater Yellowlegs, several Great Blue Herons, 16
Great Egrets and 3 Bald Eagles including 2 adults and one juvenile.
We also had
6 species of warblers, Black & White, Black-throated Green , Magnolia, Palm,
Yellow-rumped and Northern Parula.
With a day
list of 56 species, we were very content.
- American Black Duck
- American Crow
- American Golden Plover
- American Goldfinch
- American Robin
- American Wigeon
- Bald Eagle
- Belted Kingfisher
- Black & White Warbler
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Blue Jay
- Blue-winged teal
- Brown Creeper
- Common Merganser
- Common Moorhen
- Common Raven
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Downy Woodpecker
- Eastern Phoebe
- European Starling
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green-winged Teal
- Grey Catbird
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Herring Gull
- House Sparrow
- Killdeer
- Lesser Scaup
- Magnolia Warbler
- Mallard
- Northern Cardinal
- Northern Flicker
- Northern Harrier
- Northern Parula
- Northern Pintail
- Palm Warbler
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ring-necked Duck
- Rock Pigeon
- Song Sparrow
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Swainson's Thrush
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Wild Turkey
- Wood Duck
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
The Three Sombreros..
Andrew Haydon Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
All Excursions organized by Always An Adventure ~
