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  1. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    The Last Birds Seen December 30, 2007: 201. Townsend's Solitaire 202. Hoary Redpoll The Townsend's Solitaire is a rarity in Ottawa and has been around for a week now; my birding partner and I managed to find it yesterday morning. It's erratic flight pattern first drew our attention, and...
  2. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Year Bird #200! Seen December 29, 2007: 200. Evening Grosbeak I went out looking for a Red-shouldered Hawk and found three Evening Grosbeaks instead. I am quite happy that I have finally seen these beautiful birds....now I just need a better photo!
  3. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen December 26, 2007: 199. Barred Owl I finally saw one today, and it took a lot of luck to find it! Someone had seen it perched on a tree right at the side of the road yesterday, but today it was in the woods beyond the road (private property, unfortunately). A couple of crows cawing at...
  4. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen December 22, 2007: 198. Harlequin Duck For the last week a Harlequin Duck has been seen at a spot on the rapids of the Ottawa River, so today I made the trek over to the Quebec side and located her. A male would have been nicer, but I won't complain. I also saw a long-tailed duck at the...
  5. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen December 1, 2007: 197. Pine Grosbeak This is a bird I've been waiting a while to see! The last few times I went to look for it in places it had been reported it wasn't there. Finally today I found a flock of them...right in my own neighbourhood!
  6. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    A trip to the Kingston/Amherst Island area today produced three lifers and one additional bird for my year list today! Seen November 18, 2007: 193. Eurasian Wigeon 194. Red-bellied Woodpecker 195. Long-eared Owl 196. Short-eared Owl (I note there is also an American Wigeon in the photo of the...
  7. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen November 11, 2007: 192. Common Redpoll My first winter finch in what is shaping up to be an amazing irruption year. We found a small flock on a weedy roadside in the country yesterday, and although I got some photos, they were from a fair distance. So last night I put my mind to it and...
  8. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen October 25, 2007: 190. Fox Sparrow 191. Bohemian Waxwing Two more lifers today...I'm getting ever closer to the 200 mark! I wish I'd gotten better photos of the Fox Sparrow, but it didn't seem to want to perch out in the open.
  9. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen October 21, 2007: 188. White-winged Scoters 189. Cackling Goose I was so fortunate that (a) the cackling goose was on the lawn with a flock of Canadas (instead of being out in the water) and (b) two of the Canadas started chasing him, which is what caused my birding buddy to look at them...
  10. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen October 14 ,2007: 187. Sandhill Crane Technically I have seen sandhill cranes before when I lived out west (in a rural area east of Edmonton, AB). I vaguely recall my mother pointing out flocks of hundreds or thousands of these birds flying south in the fall (very noisily, I might add)...
  11. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen October 8, 2007: 182. American Pipit 183. Greater Scaup 184. Black Scoter 185. Snow Goose (blue morph) 186. Lesser Black-backed Gull No photos of the Snow Goose or the Gull, as both were seen at a considerable distance through a spotting scope. Also, it was getting dark so I didn't think...
  12. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen October 5, 2007: 180. Orange-crowned Warbler Seen October 7, 2007: 181. Trumpeter Swan (Okay, so the Trumpeter Swan may not be technically countable here in Ontario. It's still a new species for me, and there were both adults and juveniles present - evidence of breeding in the wild...
  13. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen September 30, 2007: 179. Surf Scoter
  14. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen September 22, 2007: 178. Tennessee Warbler Seen with a mixed flock of birds including Palm and Yellow-rumped Warblers, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Winter Wren and Chickadees!
  15. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen September 21, 2007: 177. Blue-headed Vireo (Too bad the branch is in the way - you can't see his "spectacles" at all!!!) Edited September 22, 2007: I saw another one today and got a nice shot of it out in the open, so I'm attaching a better picture! I think this bird has to be my...
  16. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen September 15, 2007: 173. American Golden-Plover 174. Pectoral Sandpiper 175. Stilt Sandpiper Seen September 16, 2007: 176. Swainson's Thrush I would like some better photos of all of these birds. The lighting was very bad when I saw the Golden-Plover and Pectoral Sandpiper; the Stilt...
  17. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen September 3, 2007: 171. Baird's Sandpiper 172. Blackpoll Warbler
  18. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen September 1, 2007: 167. Ruddy Turnstone 168. Red Knot 169. Cape May Warbler 170. Philadelphia Vireo Thankfully one of Ottawa's premiere birders was on hand to identify the shorebirds seen this morning at Ottawa Beach! Three more lifers today brings my life list up to 177. I'd like to...
  19. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen August 30, 2007: 166. Wilson's Warbler No photo of this one, unfortunately. Although I caught a glimpse of it twice, and got a decent view the second time, my camera batteries were all dead when I went out this morning!
  20. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen August 28, 2007: 164. Bay-breasted Warbler 165. Great Egret Seems like all my recent additions are lifers now! :t:
  21. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen August 25, 2007: 162. Gray Jay 163. Blackburnian Warbler We spent the weekend at Algonquin Park. I saw lots of warblers, but the only Algonquin "specialty" seen was the Gray Jay. I don't think it helped that it rained all day Saturday either!
  22. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Lots of lifers but few photos... Seen August 6, 2007: 157. Redhead 158. Ruddy Duck 159. Semipalmated Plover Seen August 11, 2007: 160. Nashville Warbler Seen August 12, 2007: 161. Long-tailed Jaeger Ironically, the only photo I have is the only one that's not a lifer! The other 4...
  23. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    This one's a little out of order... Seen July 29, 2007: 156. Common Loon Somehow I managed to forget this bird (and it was a lifer)! :eek!:
  24. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen August 4, 2007: 153. Black-throated Green Warbler 154. Broad-winged Hawk 155. Bonaparte's Gull Unfortunately the gull was too far out in the rapids to be seen except through a scope, and my first attempt at digiscoping was not very successful!
  25. Gillian_M

    Gillian M's Year/Photo List

    Seen July 31, 2007: 152. Chimney Swift I wish I had gotten a better look at the bird itself, rather than its silhouette in flight, but unless I see one roosting in a chimney I don't think that's going to happen.
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