West End Water Birds with Bernie Ladouceur

Sunday, Nov 3.

 

A very popular outing with two dozen or more participants including Connie, Sami, Brenda & Ken Ball.  The latter two carpooled with us.

 

We went first to Mud Lake and Britannia Point, where we got some good birds, including Barrow's Goldeneye.  Then it was over to Andrew Haydon where we got some more distant waterfowl and close views of a Brant and a Green-winged Teal.  A plan to go to Shirley's Bay got derailed when  a friend of Bernie's showed up saying there was nothing there.  Instead, we went to the foot of Vanier Rd in Aylmer where we got a Red-necked Grebe.  Our final stop was Chapman Mills conservation area on the Rideau, where there were shorebirds on the mudflats.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bird List (by Connie)

 

1 American Crow

2 European Starling

3 Ring-billed Gull

4 American Goldfinch

5 Barrow's Goldeneye (1, saw briefly)

6 Black-capped Chickadee

7 Bufflehead

8 Canada Goose

9 Common Goldeneye

10 Common Merganser

11 Downy Woodpecker

12 Great Black-back Gull

13 Great Blue Heron (2)

14 Hooded Merganser

15 Horned Grebe (6)

16 Iceland Gull (saw fly-by very quickly)

17 Lesser Scaup

18 Mallard

19 Northern Cardinal

20 Wood Duck

 21 Black Scoter (f)

22 Brant (1)

*** Bufflehead (m, f)

23 Green-winged Teal (f)

*** Horned Grebe

24 White-winged Scoter

25 Greater Scaup

*** Hooded Merganser

*** Horned Grebe (2)

26 Red-breasted Merganser(1)

27 Red-necked Grebe

 28 American Black Duck

29 Dunlin (1)

30 Greater Yellowlegs (1)

31 Pectoral Sandpiper