Sunday, April 13, 2008

Sightings for Sunday April 13th


Lasalle, Parc des Rapides: in flight past Heron Island 2 Great egrets (Grandes aigrettes) - Yvon Roy


Épiphanie: Eastern meadowlark (Sturnelle des prés) - Richard Prévost - click photo to enlarge
Montreal,
Cartierville
, 3 parks along Rivière des Prairies: Eastern phoebe (moucherolle phébi), Northern flicker (pic flamboyant), Yellow-bellied sapsucker (pic maculé), Hermit thrush (grive solitaire), 8 Wood ducks (Canard branchu), 2 Merlins (un couple de faucon émerillon)
St-Laurent, Techno-Parc: 3 Eastern phoebe (moucherolles phébi), 2 fox sparrow (bruants fauves), Hermit thrush (grive solitaire), Norhtern flicker (pic flamboyant), 2 Pileated woodpeckers (grands pics), 1 Rusty blackbird (quiscale rouilleux), 1 American woodcock (bécasse d'Amérique), 4 Killdeer (pluviers kildirs), 1 Red-shouldered hawk (buse à épaulettes), 1 Red-tailed hawk (buse à queue rousse) - Daniel Ouellette
Chambly basin: Common goldeneye (garots à oeil d'or), 10 Bufflehed (petits garots), Common mergansers (grands harles), 2 Hooded mergansers (harle couronné), Mallards (canards colvert), Cormorants (cormorans), Gadwall (canards chipeau), Ring-necked ducks (fuligules à collier), Lesser scaup (petit fuligules), Canada geese (bernaches du Canada). 2 Long-tailed ducks (harelde kakawi) près de la rue Martel. – Manon Roy - 2 Black scoter (Macreuse noire) - Don-Jean Léandri

St-Paul de l'Ile aux noix: 7 Wilson’s snipe (bécassines de Wilson). Many Tree swallows (hirondelles bicolores) à la marina Gosselin. - Manon Roy
Baie du Febvre
An amazing day! Skeins of Snow Geese flying overhead almost incessantly, a multi-thousand aggregation in the flooded fields, many species of waterfowl, 6 species of raptor including fantastic views of Peregrine, the first swallows for many...... More than 40 species of birds were seen in total so the 54 members of Scouts and Guides who came along with their leaders certainly had a lot to look at. Three cheers for the BPQ were given on the bus as it pulled away. Thanks to Stewart Bentley, Mark Brenchley, Barbara MacDuff, David Mulholland and Chris Murphy for their leadership I don't know what happened but the posting took place before I was able to write the list. The list for the day follows
Snow Geese 50 000 + (Oie des neiges), Canada Geese 5 000 + (Bernache du Canada ), Green-winged Teal (Sarcelle d'hiver), Redhead (Fuligule à tête rouge), Wood Duck 10 (Canard branchu), Gadwall 24 (Canard chipeau ), American Widgeon 12 (Canard d'Amérique), American Black Duck 24 (Canard noir), Mallard 100 (Canard colvert), Northern Shoveler 7 (Canard souchet), Northern Pintail 30 (Canard pilet), Ring-necked Duck 4 (Fuligule à collier), Bufflehead 3 (Petit Garrot), Hooded Merganser 1 (Harle couronné), Common Merganser 18 (Grand Harle) Great Blue Heron 10 (Grand Héron), Turkey Vulture 2 (Urubus à tête rouge), Bald Eagle 1(Pygargue à tête blanche), Northern Harrier 2 (Busard St-Martin), Red-tailed Hawk 3 (Buse à queue rousse), Rough-legged Hawk 7 (Buse pattue), American Kestrel (Crécerelles d'Amérique), Peregrin Falcon 1 (Falcon pelerine), American Coot 1 (Foulque d'Amérique), Killdeer 6 (Pluvier kildir), Ring-billed Gull 150 (Goéland à bec cerclé), Herring Gull 1 (Goéland argenté), Great-blacked Gull 3 (Goéland marin), Rock Pigeon 40 (Pigeon biset), Mourning Dove 6 (Tourterelle triste), Hairy Woodpecker 1 (Pic chevelu), Blue Jay 1 (Geai bleu), American Crow 100 (Corneille d'Amérique), Horned Lark 3 (Allouette hausse-col), Tree Swallow 10 (Hirondelles bicolores), American Robin 6 ( Merles d'Amérique), European Starling 40 (Étourneau sansonnet), American Tree Sparrow 6 (bruant hudsonien), Song Sparrow 25 (Bruant chanteur), Snow Bunting 20 (Bruant des neiges), Red-winged Blackbird 50 (Carouge à épaulettes), Common Grackle 30 (Quiscale bronzé), Brown-headed Cowbird (Vacher à tête brune), House Sparrow 2 (Moineau domestique)
Olivier Barden - Grearer scaup (Fuligule milouinan), Common goldeneye (Garrot à oeil d'or), Red-breasted merganser (Harles huppés 2), Pied-bille grebe (Grèbe à bec bigarré), 2 Cackling goose (Bernaches de Hutchins), Ross’s goose (Oies de Ross) 2, Savannah sparrow (Bruant des prés), Lapland longspur (Bruant lapon) 2, Snow X Canada goose hybrid (Hybride Oie des neiges x Bernache du Canada), Great egret (Grande Aigrette), Glaucous gull (Goéland bourgmestre)
Saint-Honoré-de-Chicoutimi, 521 Desbiens: White-Winged Dove (Tourterelle À Ailes Blanches) - Raymond Gagnon

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