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Birders have been flocking to Britannia to see a little grey fluffball: a bird that shouldn’t be found this side of New Mexico or Colorado.
The black-throated gray warbler is native to the southwestern United States. How this one got here is a mystery, but occasionally migratory birds take wrong turns. It can be a fatal mistake once winter arrives.
Birder Bruce Di Labio found the little warbler here on Thursday and confirmed it was still here Sunday evening.
It’s the second time on record the species has been spotted in Ottawa, he said.
Another birder, Dan Brunton, said the bird had spent the weekend eating insects in buckthorn bushes along the river shore near the Britannia Water Purification Plant.
Brunton noted another oddity: The only other time the species came here, in 2013, it also landed near the Deschênes Rapids, but on the Quebec side of the river.
The warbler was supposed to be wintering in Central America by now.
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The black-throated gray warbler is native to the southwestern United States. How this one got here is a mystery, but occasionally migratory birds take wrong turns. It can be a fatal mistake once winter arrives.
Birder Bruce Di Labio found the little warbler here on Thursday and confirmed it was still here Sunday evening.
It’s the second time on record the species has been spotted in Ottawa, he said.
Another birder, Dan Brunton, said the bird had spent the weekend eating insects in buckthorn bushes along the river shore near the Britannia Water Purification Plant.
Brunton noted another oddity: The only other time the species came here, in 2013, it also landed near the Deschênes Rapids, but on the Quebec side of the river.
The warbler was supposed to be wintering in Central America by now.
tspears@postmedia.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
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