Welcome Fall !

Canada Goose

  

Hooded Merganser - Lophodytes cucullatus 

First cycle Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis

Saturday Sep.24:
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.

1. American Black Duck
2. American Crow
3. American Golden Plover
4. American Robin
5. American Kestrel
6. Bay-breasted Warbler
7. Belted Kingfisher
8. Black-capped Chickadee
9. Blackpoll Warbler
10. Blue Jay
11. Brown-headed Cowbird
12. Canada Goose        
13. Common Moorhen
14. Common Raven
15. Coopers Hawk
16. Downy Woodpecker
17. European Starling
18. Golden-crowned Kinglet
19. Great Blue Heron
20. Green-winged Teal
21. Hairy Woodpecker
22. Herring Gull
23. House Sparrow
24. Killdeer
25. Mallard
26. Mourning Dove
27. Northern Flicker
28. Northern Harrier
29. Northern Parula
30. Northern Pintail
31. Osprey
32. Red-tailed Hawk
33. Red-winged Blackbird
34. Ring-billed Gull
35. Rock Pigeon
36. Sandhill Crane
37. Savannah Sparrow
38. Semipalmated Plover
39. Snow Goose
40. Song Sparrow
41. Spotted Sandpiper
42. Turkey Vulture
43. Warbling Vireo
44. White-breasted Nuthatch
45. Wild Turkey
46. Wood Duck
47. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
48. 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.

1. American Black Duck
2. American Crow
3. American Golden Plover
4. American Goldfinch
5. American Robin
6. American Wigeon
7. Bald Eagle
8. Belted Kingfisher
9. Black & White Warbler
10. Black-capped Chickadee
11. Black-crowned Night Heron
12. Black-throated Green Warbler
13. Blue Jay
14. Blue-winged teal
15. Brown Creeper
16. Common Merganser
17. Common Moorhen
18. Common Raven
19. Double-crested Cormorant
20. Downy Woodpecker
21. Eastern Phoebe
22. European Starling
23. Golden-crowned Kinglet
24. Great Black-backed Gull
25. Great Blue Heron
26. Great Egret
27. Greater Yellowlegs
28. Green-winged Teal
29. Grey Catbird
30. Hairy Woodpecker
31. Herring Gull
32. House Sparrow
33. Killdeer
34. Lesser Scaup
35. Magnolia Warbler
36. Mallard
37. Northern Cardinal
38. Northern Flicker
39. Northern Harrier
40. Northern Parula
41. Northern Pintail
42. Palm Warbler
43. Pied-billed Grebe
44. Red-tailed Hawk
45. Ring-billed Gull
46. Ring-necked Duck
47. Rock Pigeon
48. Song Sparrow
49. Spotted Sandpiper
50. Swainson's Thrush
51. White-breasted Nuthatch
52. White-crowned Sparrow
53. Wild Turkey
54. Wood Duck
55. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
56. Yellow-rumped Warbler

 

The Three Sombreros..   

 

Andrew Haydon Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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