Tuesday Dec 21, 8:00am
Today we had Al, Craig, Bob, Peter, Heather, Rick, Nina, Tony, & me.
We started at Britannia Ridge where we saw an adult Bald Eagle, lots of Great Black-backed Gulls and Common Goldeneye. Heather got a nice male White-breasted Nuthatch to come out for us. A Downy-Woodpecker showed up too, as we tried to hand-feed them. There were also a couple of American Goldfinches.
A quick fly-past by a Pileated Woodpecker got us excited. A Common Raven responded to Rick’s imitation.
We wandered down to the river launch and saw a Hairy Woodpecker at the edge of the river and a couple of male Common Mergansers way off in the distance on the Quebec side.There were several Mallards, one Black Duck, a female Common Merganser and three Canada Geese.
Walking back up the road, Craig got a lifer – a male Pileated Woodpecker.
We drove to Aylmer to twitch for rarities that had been reported on the CBC. We checked for an Eastern Screech Owl, but could not locate it. Same story for a Carolina Wren. But we did see some Dark-eyed Juncos, a male and female Northern Cardinal, a White-throated Sparrow, and both Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers while looking for the Wren.
We decided to check on the owl again, but could only find a couple of American Robins. In the Deschenes Rapids, we saw a single female Bufflehead, a Lesser Scaup and three more male Common Mergansers and one female.
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