Scrublands and Riparian Habitats – Shirley’s Bay Trails – Ottawa West with Always an Adventure

Thursday July 17

Today we have Judith, Sue, Lorraine, Rick ,Tony, Nina and me.

We went to Shirleys Bay and hiked out onto the dike.  The mosquitoes on the hike in were rather fierce. The water level was not as low as we had hoped, so shorebirds were scarce.  We did see three Great Egrets.  We went next to Richmond Lagoons, then to Burnside and finally to TrailRoad/Cambrian Road.

Bird List

1. Spotted Sandpiper
2. Canada Goose
3. Ring-billed Gull
4. Common Tern
5. Mourning Dove
6. Cedar Waxwing
7. Wood Thrush
8. Double-crested Cormorant
9. Common Grackle
10. Gray Catbird
11. American Restart
12. Downy Woodpecker
13. Hairy Woodpecker
14. Red-eyed Vireo
15. Osprey
16. Song Sparrow
17. Black-capped Chickadee
18. Wood Duck
19. Eastern Wood Pewee
20. Great-crested Flycatcher
21. Brown Creeper
22. Belted Kingfisher
23. Great Egret
24. Red-winged Blackbird
25. Blue-winged Teal
26. Mallard
27. Common Gallinule
28. Great Blue Heron
29. Green-winged Teal
30. American Robin
31. Tree Swallow
32. Northern Flicker
33. Warbling Vireo
34. Eastern Phoebe
35. Eastern Kingbird
36. Barn Swallow
37. Hooded Merganser
38. Common Yellowthroat
39. Willow Flycatcher
40. Swamp Sparrow
41. American Goldfinch
42. Purple Finch
43. Baltimore Oriole
44. Green Heron
45. Pied-billed Grebe
46. Gadwall
47. Killdeer
48. Common Raven
49. Turkey Vulture
50. Chipping Sparrow
51. Eauropean Starling
52. Northern Cardinal
53. Vesper Sparrow