Ottawa/Gatineau: recent sightings to Jul 31, 2025
Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club (OFNC)
Ottawa/Gatineau (50 Km radius from Parliament Hill) E. Ontario, W. Quebec
Compiler: Derek Dunnett at sightings@ofnc.ca
Though this is the final summer to participate in the Ontario Breeding Bird
Atlas, there is still plenty of breeding bird evidence to be found, and
many opportunities to enhance the breeding evidence of common species
across Eastern Ontario. That bird you only see or hear can still be
atlassed as a possible breeding bird, but if you see it carrying food or
tending young, that will confirm the presence of a breeding bird. Every
bird counts!
Please consider converting your eBird reports or those outings to capture
incredible bird photographs into valuable Atlas data. As the summer
progresses, it doesn’t matter if you are walking the dog at home, visiting
your friend’s cottage, or enjoying a break in a favourite Provincial Park:
almost every bird you encounter can be easily added to the Ontario Breeding
Bird Atlas, a once in a generation province-wide community-science effort.
For more information on how to be a part of the community of more than 270
local observers who have contributed their observations to the Ontario
Breeding Bird Atlas, please visit www.birdsontario.org or contact the
Ottawa Regional Coordinator at Ottawa@birdsontario.org
Trumpeter Swan (2) Jul 28, Kinburn old rail trail, Ottawa.
Harlequin Duck (1) Jul 29, Wakefield, Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais.
Continuing.
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (1) Jul 28, Ottawa River P27 (Green's Creek), Ottawa.
Red-headed Woodpecker (2) Constance Bay, Ottawa.
Philadelphia Vireo (1) Jul 25-31, Rockcliffe Airport Woods, Ottawa. (2) Jul
26, Extrémité Ch. de l'Hôtel de Ville, Luskville, Les
Collines-de-l'Outaouais.
Sedge Wren(1-3) Jul 26, Torbolton Ridge Road, Ottawa.
Tennessee Warbler (1) Jul 31, Britannia CA--Mud Lake, Ottawa. (1) Jul 28,
Rideau Tennis Club, Ottawa. (1) Jul 28, Devine Rd, Ottawa.
Cape May Warbler (1) Jul 27, Richmond CA (formerly Richmond Sewage
Lagoons), Ottawa.
Northern Parula - Everywhere.
Bay-breasted Warbler (2) Jul 26, Champlain Street Marsh, Ottawa.
Lincoln's Sparrow (1) Jul 31, -Mer Bleue Bog, Ottawa. Locally rare in
July, it breeds annually in the bog.