Just prior to sunset today (from about 7:30-8:00) Eastern Kingbirds roosting in the trees at SW Hillman Marsh were estimated at 400+ birds.
Such sunset concentrations appear to be annual at Hillman Marsh, but most years I forget to check. Some past counts here include the following: 500 -- August 27-29, 1984 800 -- August 21, 1986 400 -- August 16, 1998 I hope to check this roost regularly to see if any other kingbird species appears, even though its not easy to check the birds since they are very active and are sometimes difficult to see in the thick willows. Although Eastern Kingbirds form huge flocks on their wintering grounds in South America, I think its much less normal at our latitude. If anyone has recorded similar roosts anywhere in southern Ontario, I would be very interested to hear about it. Please e-mail me privately. Alan Wormington, Leamington ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 27 08:44:00 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from moe.cs.uoguelph.ca (moe.cs.uoguelph.ca [131.104.96.55]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D9247F08 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:44:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from uoguelph.ca ([131.104.71.30]) by moe.cs.uoguelph.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7RChQ8S008327 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:43:26 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:47:05 -0400 From: Chris Earley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [email protected] X-Spam-Scanner: SpamAssassin 2.63 (http://www.spamassassin.org/) on moe.cs.uoguelph.ca X-Spam-Score: hits=1.1 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Tests: HTML_30_40,HTML_MESSAGE,HTML_TAG_BALANCE_BODY X-Spam-Status: Suspected X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: [Ontbirds] Workshops on Fall Warblers, Winter Birds and Owls - Arboretum Uof Guelph X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:44:00 -0000 Hi, everyone, This post was approved by Mark. The Arboretum, University of Guelph, has space in the following interactive bird workshops. For more details, please go to our website at www.uoguelph.ca/arboretum or e-mail me privately. Many Ontbirds members have benefitted from these workshops - you can, too! Note: You must register for all workshops - call 519-824-4120 ext. 52358. Fall Warbler Workshop Friday, September 17, 2004, 9 am - 4 pm, $45 Learn how to identify the confusing fall warblers. Register soon! Winter Birds Workshop Friday, October 22, 2004, 9 am - 4 pm, $45 We cover behaviour watching as well as identification. Owl Workshop Friday, January 14, 2005, 9 am to 5 pm, 6:30 pm - 9 pm, $65 This workshop includes an evening owl prowl to look for species in the Guelph area. Other nature workshops this fall/winter include late summer bloom, rowing native plants from seed, look-see-paint, shrub i.d., tree i.d., family owl prowl, starting your perennials garden from seed, story telling, eco veggie gardening, pruning and pond gardening. Cheers, Chris -- Chris Earley Interpretive Biologist / Education Coordinator The Arboretum, University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1 Canada phone: (519)824-4120 ext. 52201 fax: (519)763-9598 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.uoguelph.ca/arboretum "The chief aim of interpretation is not instruction, but provocation." - Freeman Tilden
