Eastern Fields and Lagoons - OFO trip with Bob Cermak and Bernie Ladouceur

April 1, 2012

There were about 20 out for this day.  We invited Jim and Margaret Carpenter to join us for the day.  We began at Petrie Island, then went to Tim Hortons to carpool from there.  We saw some displaying Wild Turkeys on Frank Kenny.  When we stopped , we saw a Rough-legged Hawk in the distance, a Merlin on a fence post eating a bird, and a male Northern Harrier on the other side of the road. We went directly to Dunning & Colonial to see the Lesser Snow Geese.  The next stop was Milton Road for the Sandhill Cranes.  Then it was out to Bourget where we stopped for a bathroom break, then on to the fields at Johnston Rd, which were no longer flooded.  There were a few Snow Geese and a Ross's Goose with them.  From there we went to the edge of Larose Forest where we got an Evening Grosbeak and some Rusty Blackbirds.  The next stop was the Casselman Lagoons and the final stop was the Embrun Lagoons.  On the way back, we stopped at Giroux ponds where we got a close up view of another Northern Harrier.

 

Bird List

1. Northern Flicker (H)
2. Northern Cardinal
3. Black-capped Chickadee
4. Common Merganser
5. Hooded Merganser
6. Red-winged Blackbird
7. Bufflehead
8. Wood Duck
9. Ring-billed Gull
10. American Robin
11. Wild Turkey
12. Rough-legged Hawk
13. Merlin
14. Northern Harrier (male)
15. Lesser Snow Goose
16. Greater Snow Goose
17. Sandhill Crane
18. Canada Goose
19. Cackling Goose
20. Mallard
21. Black Duck
22. Northern Shoveller
23. Northern Pintail
24. American Crow
25. Common Raven
26. Turkey Vulture
27. Mourning Dove
28. Killdeer
29. Ross's Goose
30. Blue Jay
31. Evening Grosbeak
32. Rusty Blackbird
33. Common Grackle
34. European Starling
35. Lesser Scaup
36. Ring-necked Duck
37. Green-winged Teal
38. Brown-headed  Cowbird
39. Song Sparrow
40. Red-tailed Hawk
41. Herring Gull
42. Northern Harrier (female)