{"id":16816,"date":"2012-07-14T02:19:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T00:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=16816"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:26:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:26:53","slug":"the-end-of-spring-birding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/the-end-of-spring-birding\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of Spring Birding.."},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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Upland Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Baby Red-winged Blackbird<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Birding Group<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Upland Sandpiper, Photo courtesy Tony Beck<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Upland Sandpiper, Photo courtesy Pavel Dvorak<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Scenery<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Pine Warbler, Photo courtesy Roger Cobbledick<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Tuesday June 26:<\/p>\n

We started the morning at dawn in Gatineau Park with the plan of exploring all along the beautiful Gatineau Escarpment.<\/p>\n

Our first great excitement was a cooperative Upland Sandpiper perched on a fence post near Breckenridge. The fields seem fairly active with Bobolinks and Eastern Meadowlarks. We found a family of highly vocal American Kestrels near Quyon.<\/p>\n

At Elmside, near Norway Bay, we were surprised to find a female Pine Warbler out in the open, completely outside of her normal habitat. We were enjoying a pair of Eastern Bluebirds when the Pine Warbler was spotted dancing around a fence post beside the road.<\/p>\n

We continued on to Calumet Island, where we observed an adult Red-tailed Hawk guarding its nest containing two chicks.<\/p>\n

At Lawless Lake, up in the hills past Campbell’s Bay, we observed two adult Common Loons with their single chick.<\/p>\n

Despite the strong wind and intense sunshine, we had a day-list of 70 birds.<\/p>\n

Canada Goose<\/p>\n

Branta canadensis<\/p>\n

Mallard<\/p>\n

Anas platyrhynchos<\/p>\n

Wild Turkey<\/p>\n

Meleagris gallopavo<\/p>\n

Common Loon<\/p>\n

Gavia immer<\/p>\n

Double-crested Cormorant<\/p>\n

Phalacrocorax auritus<\/p>\n

Great Blue Heron<\/p>\n

Ardea herodias<\/p>\n

Black-crowned Night-Heron<\/p>\n

Nycticorax nycticorax<\/p>\n

Turkey Vulture<\/p>\n

Cathartes aura<\/p>\n

Northern Harrier<\/p>\n

Circus cyaneus<\/p>\n

Broad-winged Hawk<\/p>\n

Buteo platypterus<\/p>\n

Red-tailed Hawk<\/p>\n

Buteo jamaicensis<\/p>\n

American Kestrel<\/p>\n

Falco sparverius<\/p>\n

Virginia Rail<\/p>\n

Rallus limicola<\/p>\n

Killdeer<\/p>\n

Charadrius vociferus<\/p>\n

Spotted Sandpiper<\/p>\n

Actitis macularius<\/p>\n

Upland Sandpiper<\/p>\n

Bartramia longicauda<\/p>\n

Wilson’s Snipe<\/p>\n

Gallinago delicata<\/p>\n

Ring-billed Gull<\/p>\n

Larus delawarensis<\/p>\n

Rock Pigeon<\/p>\n

Columba livia<\/p>\n

Mourning Dove<\/p>\n

Zenaida macroura<\/p>\n

Belted Kingfisher<\/p>\n

Megaceryle alcyon<\/p>\n

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker<\/p>\n

Sphyrapicus varius<\/p>\n

Downy Woodpecker<\/p>\n

Picoides pubescens<\/p>\n

Hairy Woodpecker<\/p>\n

Picoides villosus<\/p>\n

Northern Flicker<\/p>\n

Colaptes auratus<\/p>\n

Eastern Wood-Pewee<\/p>\n

Contopus virens<\/p>\n

Least Flycatcher<\/p>\n

Empidonax minimus<\/p>\n

Eastern Phoebe<\/p>\n

Sayornis phoebe<\/p>\n

Great Crested Flycatcher<\/p>\n

Myiarchus crinitus<\/p>\n

Eastern Kingbird<\/p>\n

Tyrannus tyrannus<\/p>\n

Warbling Vireo<\/p>\n

Vireo gilvus<\/p>\n

Red-eyed Vireo<\/p>\n

Vireo olivaceus<\/p>\n

Blue Jay<\/p>\n

Cyanocitta cristata<\/p>\n

American Crow<\/p>\n

Corvus brachyrhynchos<\/p>\n

Common Raven<\/p>\n

Corvus corax<\/p>\n

Tree Swallow<\/p>\n

Tachycineta bicolor<\/p>\n

Barn Swallow<\/p>\n

Hirundo rustica<\/p>\n

Cliff Swallow<\/p>\n

Petrochelidon pyrrhonota<\/p>\n

Black-capped Chickadee<\/p>\n

Poecile atricapillus<\/p>\n

Red-breasted Nuthatch<\/p>\n

Sitta canadensis<\/p>\n

Eastern Bluebird<\/p>\n

Sialia sialis<\/p>\n

Veery<\/p>\n

Catharus fuscescens<\/p>\n

American Robin<\/p>\n

Turdus migratorius<\/p>\n

Gray Catbird<\/p>\n

Dumetella carolinensis<\/p>\n

European Starling<\/p>\n

Sturnus vulgaris<\/p>\n

Cedar Waxwing<\/p>\n

Bombycilla cedrorum<\/p>\n

Ovenbird<\/p>\n

Seiurus aurocapilla<\/p>\n

Black-and-white Warbler<\/p>\n

Mniotilta varia<\/p>\n

Nashville Warbler<\/p>\n

Oreothlypis ruficapilla<\/p>\n

Common Yellowthroat<\/p>\n

Geothlypis trichas<\/p>\n

American Redstart<\/p>\n

Setophaga ruticilla<\/p>\n

Yellow Warbler<\/p>\n

Setophaga petechia<\/p>\n

Chestnut-sided Warbler<\/p>\n

Setophaga pensylvanica<\/p>\n

Pine Warbler<\/p>\n

Setophaga pinus<\/p>\n

Black-thr. Green Warbler<\/p>\n

Setophaga virens<\/p>\n

Chipping Sparrow<\/p>\n

Spizella passerina<\/p>\n

Savannah Sparrow<\/p>\n

Passerculus sandwichensis<\/p>\n

Song Sparrow<\/p>\n

Melospiza melodia<\/p>\n

Swamp Sparrow<\/p>\n

Melospiza georgiana<\/p>\n

White-throated Sparrow<\/p>\n

Zonotrichia albicollis<\/p>\n

Northern Cardinal<\/p>\n

Cardinalis cardinalis<\/p>\n

Bobolink<\/p>\n

Dolichonyx oryzivorus<\/p>\n

Red-winged Blackbird<\/p>\n

Agelaius phoeniceus<\/p>\n

Eastern Meadowlark<\/p>\n

Sturnella magna<\/p>\n

Common Grackle<\/p>\n

Quiscalus quiscula<\/p>\n

Baltimore Oriole<\/p>\n

Icterus galbula<\/p>\n

Purple Finch<\/p>\n

Carpodacus purpureus<\/p>\n

House Finch<\/p>\n

Carpodacus mexicanus<\/p>\n

American Goldfinch<\/p>\n

Spinus tristis<\/p>\n

House Sparrow<\/p>\n

Passer domesticus<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Photographing Great Egret at Andrew Haydon Park<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Andrew Haydon Park<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Female Hooded Merganser with chick<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Birding Group<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Thursday June 28:<\/p>\n

It was a hot day with warm breeze.<\/p>\n

We started at Andrew Haydon Park where we watched the now-famous Hooded Merganser and her four chicks.<\/p>\n

We ventured out west of Ottawa stopping at Constance Creek where we got American Bittern and Virginia Rail. We made a sudden stop along the Thomas Dolan Parkway when a Scarlet Tanager flew over the road. Several more birds came into view here, including a female Blackburnian Warbler.<\/p>\n

We ended our morning at the Burntlands where we saw Clay-colored, Field, Savannah and Grasshopper Sparrows.<\/p>\n

Our day-list reached 60 species.<\/p>\n

Canada Goose<\/p>\n

Branta canadensis<\/p>\n

Wood Duck<\/p>\n

Aix sponsa<\/p>\n

Mallard<\/p>\n

Anas platyrhynchos<\/p>\n

Hooded Merganser<\/p>\n

Lophodytes cucullatus<\/p>\n

American Bittern<\/p>\n

Botaurus lentiginosus<\/p>\n

Great Blue Heron<\/p>\n

Ardea herodias<\/p>\n

Great Egret<\/p>\n

Ardea alba<\/p>\n

Black-crowned Night-Heron<\/p>\n

Nycticorax nycticorax<\/p>\n

Turkey Vulture<\/p>\n

Cathartes aura<\/p>\n

Osprey<\/p>\n

Pandion haliaetus<\/p>\n

Northern Harrier<\/p>\n

Circus cyaneus<\/p>\n

Virginia Rail<\/p>\n

Rallus limicola<\/p>\n

Killdeer<\/p>\n

Charadrius vociferus<\/p>\n

Spotted Sandpiper<\/p>\n

Actitis macularius<\/p>\n

Wilson’s Snipe<\/p>\n

Gallinago delicata<\/p>\n

Ring-billed Gull<\/p>\n

Larus delawarensis<\/p>\n

Common Tern<\/p>\n

Sterna hirundo<\/p>\n

Rock Pigeon<\/p>\n

Columba livia<\/p>\n

Mourning Dove<\/p>\n

Zenaida macroura<\/p>\n

Belted Kingfisher<\/p>\n

Megaceryle alcyon<\/p>\n

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker<\/p>\n

Sphyrapicus varius<\/p>\n

Downy Woodpecker<\/p>\n

Picoides pubescens<\/p>\n

Hairy Woodpecker<\/p>\n

Picoides villosus<\/p>\n

Northern Flicker<\/p>\n

Colaptes auratus<\/p>\n

Eastern Wood-Pewee<\/p>\n

Contopus virens<\/p>\n

Eastern Phoebe<\/p>\n

Sayornis phoebe<\/p>\n

Eastern Kingbird<\/p>\n

Tyrannus tyrannus<\/p>\n

Warbling Vireo<\/p>\n

Vireo gilvus<\/p>\n

Red-eyed Vireo<\/p>\n

Vireo olivaceus<\/p>\n

Blue Jay<\/p>\n

Cyanocitta cristata<\/p>\n

American Crow<\/p>\n

Corvus brachyrhynchos<\/p>\n

Common Raven<\/p>\n

Corvus corax<\/p>\n

N – Rough-winged Swallow<\/p>\n

Stelgidopteryx serripennis<\/p>\n

Purple Martin<\/p>\n

Progne subis<\/p>\n

Barn Swallow<\/p>\n

Hirundo rustica<\/p>\n

Black-capped Chickadee<\/p>\n

Poecile atricapillus<\/p>\n

White-breasted Nuthatch<\/p>\n

Sitta carolinensis<\/p>\n

Veery<\/p>\n

Catharus fuscescens<\/p>\n

American Robin<\/p>\n

Turdus migratorius<\/p>\n

Brown Thrasher<\/p>\n

Toxostoma rufum<\/p>\n

European Starling<\/p>\n

Sturnus vulgaris<\/p>\n

Cedar Waxwing<\/p>\n

Bombycilla cedrorum<\/p>\n

Black-and-white Warbler<\/p>\n

Mniotilta varia<\/p>\n

Common Yellowthroat<\/p>\n

Geothlypis trichas<\/p>\n

Blackburnian Warbler<\/p>\n

Setophaga fusca<\/p>\n

Yellow Warbler<\/p>\n

Setophaga petechia<\/p>\n

Chestnut-sided Warbler<\/p>\n

Setophaga pensylvanica<\/p>\n

Chipping Sparrow<\/p>\n

Spizella passerina<\/p>\n

Clay-colored Sparrow<\/p>\n

Spizella pallida<\/p>\n

Field Sparrow<\/p>\n

Spizella pusilla<\/p>\n

Savannah Sparrow<\/p>\n

Passerculus sandwichensis<\/p>\n

Grasshopper Sparrow<\/p>\n

Ammodramus savannarum<\/p>\n

Song Sparrow<\/p>\n

Melospiza melodia<\/p>\n

Swamp Sparrow<\/p>\n

Melospiza georgiana<\/p>\n

White-throated Sparrow<\/p>\n

Zonotrichia albicollis<\/p>\n

Scarlet Tanager<\/p>\n

Piranga olivacea<\/p>\n

Rose-breasted Grosbeak<\/p>\n

Pheucticus ludovicianus<\/p>\n

Red-winged Blackbird<\/p>\n

Agelaius phoeniceus<\/p>\n

Common Grackle<\/p>\n

Quiscalus quiscula<\/p>\n

American Goldfinch<\/p>\n

Spinus tristis<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Savannah Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Black & White Warbler<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Saturday June 30:<\/p>\n

It was a glorious warm but windy morning.<\/p>\n

We started the day at Petrie Island, only spending a brief time checking out the causeway for birdies.<\/p>\n

We then went to Giroux Pond, followed by Embrum and Casselman Lagoons. At Embrum we found a few Lesser Yellowlegs and Least Sandpipers. At Casselman we had a female Greater Scaup. These are the first fall migrants – right on schedule!<\/p>\n

We ended the excursion at Carlsbad Lane where we had Meadowlark and Upland Sandpiper participating in a singing contest.<\/p>\n

Our day-list again came to 60 species of birds.<\/p>\n

Canada Goose<\/p>\n

Branta canadensis<\/p>\n

Wood Duck<\/p>\n

Aix sponsa<\/p>\n

Mallard<\/p>\n

Anas platyrhynchos<\/p>\n

Blue-winged Teal<\/p>\n

Anas discors<\/p>\n

Northern Shoveler<\/p>\n

Anas clypeata<\/p>\n

Green-winged Teal<\/p>\n

Anas crecca<\/p>\n

Greater Scaup<\/p>\n

Aythya marila<\/p>\n

Ruddy Duck<\/p>\n

Oxyura jamaicensis<\/p>\n

American Bittern<\/p>\n

Botaurus lentiginosus<\/p>\n

Great Blue Heron<\/p>\n

Ardea herodias<\/p>\n

Turkey Vulture<\/p>\n

Cathartes aura<\/p>\n

Northern Harrier<\/p>\n

Circus cyaneus<\/p>\n

Red-tailed Hawk<\/p>\n

Buteo jamaicensis<\/p>\n

Virginia Rail<\/p>\n

Rallus limicola<\/p>\n

Common Gallinule\/Moorhen<\/p>\n

Gallinula galeata<\/p>\n

Killdeer<\/p>\n

Charadrius vociferus<\/p>\n

Spotted Sandpiper<\/p>\n

Actitis macularius<\/p>\n

Lesser Yellowlegs<\/p>\n

Tringa flavipes<\/p>\n

Upland Sandpiper<\/p>\n

Bartramia longicauda<\/p>\n

Least Sandpiper<\/p>\n

Calidris minutilla<\/p>\n

Wilson’s Snipe<\/p>\n

Gallinago delicata<\/p>\n

Ring-billed Gull<\/p>\n

Larus delawarensis<\/p>\n

Rock Pigeon<\/p>\n

Columba livia<\/p>\n

Mourning Dove<\/p>\n

Zenaida macroura<\/p>\n

Belted Kingfisher<\/p>\n

Megaceryle alcyon<\/p>\n

Downy Woodpecker<\/p>\n

Picoides pubescens<\/p>\n

Northern Flicker<\/p>\n

Colaptes auratus<\/p>\n

Least Flycatcher<\/p>\n

Empidonax minimus<\/p>\n

Great Crested Flycatcher<\/p>\n

Myiarchus crinitus<\/p>\n

Eastern Kingbird<\/p>\n

Tyrannus tyrannus<\/p>\n

Warbling Vireo<\/p>\n

Vireo gilvus<\/p>\n

Red-eyed Vireo<\/p>\n

Vireo olivaceus<\/p>\n

American Crow<\/p>\n

Corvus brachyrhynchos<\/p>\n

Common Raven<\/p>\n

Corvus corax<\/p>\n

Tree Swallow<\/p>\n

Tachycineta bicolor<\/p>\n

Barn Swallow<\/p>\n

Hirundo rustica<\/p>\n

Cliff Swallow<\/p>\n

Petrochelidon pyrrhonota<\/p>\n

Black-capped Chickadee<\/p>\n

Poecile atricapillus<\/p>\n

White-breasted Nuthatch<\/p>\n

Sitta carolinensis<\/p>\n

Marsh Wren<\/p>\n

Cistothorus palustris<\/p>\n

Eastern Bluebird<\/p>\n

Sialia sialis<\/p>\n

American Robin<\/p>\n

Turdus migratorius<\/p>\n

Gray Catbird<\/p>\n

Dumetella carolinensis<\/p>\n

European Starling<\/p>\n

Sturnus vulgaris<\/p>\n

Cedar Waxwing<\/p>\n

Bombycilla cedrorum<\/p>\n

Common Yellowthroat<\/p>\n

Geothlypis trichas<\/p>\n

Yellow Warbler<\/p>\n

Setophaga petechia<\/p>\n

Chipping Sparrow<\/p>\n

Spizella passerina<\/p>\n

Savannah Sparrow<\/p>\n

Passerculus sandwichensis<\/p>\n

Song Sparrow<\/p>\n

Melospiza melodia<\/p>\n

Swamp Sparrow<\/p>\n

Melospiza georgiana<\/p>\n

Northern Cardinal<\/p>\n

Cardinalis cardinalis<\/p>\n

Bobolink<\/p>\n

Dolichonyx oryzivorus<\/p>\n

Red-winged Blackbird<\/p>\n

Agelaius phoeniceus<\/p>\n

Eastern Meadowlark<\/p>\n

Sturnella magna<\/p>\n

Common Grackle<\/p>\n

Quiscalus quiscula<\/p>\n

Brown-headed Cowbird<\/p>\n

Molothrus ater<\/p>\n

House Finch<\/p>\n

Carpodacus mexicanus<\/p>\n

American Goldfinch<\/p>\n

Spinus tristis<\/p>\n

House Sparrow<\/p>\n

Passer domesticus<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Tuesday June 26: We started the morning at dawn in Gatineau Park with the plan of exploring all along the beautiful Gatineau Escarpment. Our first great excitement was a cooperative Upland Sandpiper perched on a fence post near Breckenridge. The fields seem fairly active with Bobolinks and Eastern Meadowlarks. We found a family of highly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":2192390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC4023.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}