Just a short post to cover that afternoon...
We moved off from the dizzying delights of Magee and headed just down the road to some different habitat - Ottawa Refuge and its shallow wetland pools.
Waders were the main goal and a few were present - 50+ Dunlin, 1 Pectoral Sandpiper, 10+ Lesser Yellowlegs,
2+ Least Sandpipers, 10+ Semi-palmated Sandpipers, 16+ Great Egret.
Another random little woodlot around the corner on a pool edge was interesting. One of the lads called Common Gallinule ( er Moorhen to you) but I couldn't get the adrenalin flowing enough to leave behind a male American Redstart, 2 Blue Gray Gnatcatchers, an Empidonax Flycatcher that may never be identified, Magnolia Warbler, Palm Warbler, Yellow rumped Warbler and a pair of Blue Jays. Then someone found a male
Wilsons Warbler that took some finding afterwards and a nice
Brown Thrasher.
No, I never did add Common Gallinule to my USA list....
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| Grilling shorebirds at Ottawa. |
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| GBH |
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| Great Egret |
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| Blue Gray Gnatcatcher, best I could do, sorry. We found its nest too and that didn't help. |
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| Palm Warblers, a lovely subtle bird, one of my favourites. Common too... |
3 comments:
Stewart that's three days and you haven't mentioned a single bag of crisps - Les
Crisps? What crisps?
Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata) has been split from Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus). Subtle differences in bill shield shape, more differences in DNA ;-)
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