Pincourt: My first ever Northern Shrike (Pie-grièche grise) (click photo to enlarge) sighting happened this morning in my backyard. I noticed a bird hovering mometarily over a line of cedar hedges and saw when it perched on a clothes line it was a Northern Shrike. I managed to get a couple of pictures of it but at the distance I had to enlarge the photos to see for sure it was what I thought it to be. It appeared to be going after some house sparrows as there are many house sparrows in that cedar bush.
Also spotted today: House sparrows - 10, Northern Cardinals - 3 (two males, one female), American goldfinch - 4, Blue Jays - 6, European starlings - 10, Downy woodpecker - 1, Black capped chickadees - 6, House finch - 4 (two males, two females), American Robin - 1, Coopers hawk - 1, Dark eyed junco - 8, American crow - 4
Moineaux domestiques - 10, Cardinals rouge - 3 (deux mâles et une femme), Chardonneret jaune - 4, Geai bleu - 6, étourneau sansonnet - 10, Pic mineur - 1, Mésange à tête noire - 6, Roselin familier - 4 (2 mâles , 2 femelles), Merle d'Amérique - 1, Coopers hawk - 1, Junco ardoisé - 8, Corneille d'Amérique - 4
All spotted within an hour in Pincourt. - Mathias Mutzl
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Montréal: We saw a Northern Shrike in our alleyway, located in the Villeray district of Montreal. She devoured a sparrow. It was observed for several minutes by four experienced observers, between 2:49 & 3:15 p.m. Unfortunately I did not get a picture.
Nous avons observé une Pie-grièche grise dans notre ruelle située dans le quartier Villeray à Montréal. Elle a dévoré un moineau. Elle a été observé durant plusieures minutes par quatre observateurs chevronnés, entre 14n40 et 15h15. Malheureusement je n'ai pu la prendre en photo - Alexis Robin-Brisebois
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Verdun, l'ile des Soeurs Eastern screech owl - 2 with a well hidden in the bottom of their cavity, Downy Woodpecker - 3, Hairy Woodpecker - 5, White-breasted Nuthatch-2
petit duc maculé - 2 dont un bien caché dans le fond de sa cavité, pic mineur - 3, pic chevelu - 5, sitelles à poit. blanche- 2
St-Hubert, boul Clairevue: around 4 p.m. Monique identified far off in a field on the east side of an old building a beautiful Snowy owl. Chantale Trudelle came to join us, to admire
vers 16hres Monique a repéré très loin dans un champs du côté est sur une vieille bâtisse un bel harfang des neiges, Chantale Trudelle est venue nous rejoindre pour l'admiré. - Pierre Casavant
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Beauharnois: On the canal, besides Common goldeneye (about 75), there were a few hundred Common mergansers, 1 Common loon and a Long-tailed duck (a young male). At the top of the Larocque bridge, faithful to his post, the Peregrine falcon scanned the horizon.
Sur le canal, hormis les garrots à oeil d'or (environ 75), il y avait quelques centaines de grands harles, 1 plongeon huard et un harelde kakawi (un jeune mâle). Au sommet du pont Larocque, fidèle à son poste, le faucon pèlerin scrutait l'horizon. - Louise Dumont, Alain Hogue
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Saint-Eustache: Earlier this morning, I was able to review the Pintail near the second Îles Yales bridge. Also, many mallards, a few Black ducks and domestic geese. At the same place, an American robin and a Northern Flicker
Plus tôt ce matin, j'ai pu revoir le Canard pilet près du deuxième pont aux Îles Yales (Saint-Eustache). Aussi, de nombreux colverts, quelques *Canards noirs* et des oies domestiques. Au même endroit, un Merle d'Amérique, puis un Pic flamboyant - Jean-Claude Charbonneau
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Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, montée Martel: Snowy owl (Harfang des neiges) - Janine & Louise Simard
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Lac-Megantic: 2 males and a female Northern Pintail with among the many Mallards
2 males et une femelle Canard Pilet parmis plusieurs Canards Colverts. - Mario Turcotte
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