Yes, I'm off-topic again, but this hasn't received the publicity of
the Arkansas ones and should be of interest to any of you that haven't
already heard of it.
Quite a bit of persuasive evidence is provided by this team of
researchers from Auburn University and the University of Windsor,
including 14 sight identifications (but no photos) in one year
(2005-2006) in a riverbottom area of northern Florida. Their
presentation is a little more cautious than the Arkansas ones, but
they are evidently convinced. Here is the article on-line:
[1]http://www.ace-eco.org/vol1/iss3/art2/
Wayne Neily
Tremont, Nova Scotia
"In nature's infinite book of secrecy
A little I can read." - William Shakespeare, 1607.
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References
1. http://www.ace-eco.org/vol1/iss3/art2/
2. http://g.msn.com/8HMBENCA/2731??PS=47575
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Finally a week when migration was really noticeable. Warbler movement seems
to have tapered off (although we did have nine species reported) only to be
replaced by large numbers of thrushes, sparrows and blackbirds. There was a
significant night flight Sept. 24/25 with thousands of Swainson's and
hundreds of Gray-cheeked Thrushes and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks flying over
the city.
A fallout occurred on Tuesday and White-throated Sparrows were everywhere. A
flock near Camden East had dozens of White-throats with Song, Field and
Swamp Sparrows mixed in. The Owl Woods on Amherst Island that same morning
was alive with sparrows, warblers, both kinglets, Eastern Towhees and
Phoebes, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, as well as a Hermit and a Gray-cheeked
Thrush. In amongst the grasses and Smartweed at the north end of the ponds
on the Amherst I. KFN property were several Savannah Sparrows, a Common
Yellowthroat, and a Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow. Close by, with a few
dozen American Pipits, were two Lapland Longspurs. A singing Carolina Wren
entertained at the west end of the island near the large Ducks Unlimited
project.
On the Amherst Island bar shorebirds included 2 Pectoral Sandpipers, 3
Black-bellied and 4 Am. Golden Plover. The Hudsonian Godwit found on Sunday
at the Amherstview lagoons was still present on the 27th. The Solitary
Sandpiper at Camden East stayed in the same small pond from Sept.14th to the
24th. A new sod farm on Unity Road shows some promise as there were two
Golden and one Black-bellied Plover there on Tuesday.
Waterfowl numbers are picking up. There were 3 Bufflehead, 4 Lesser Scaup, 2
Ring-necked Ducks and a Redhead at the lagoons on Tuesday and a flock of 20
Redheads off the Amherst Island bar that same day. There were dozens of
puddle ducks in the lagoons as well.
Raptor sightings this week included 3 Merlins at various locations, 2
Sharp-shinned and a Cooper's Hawk near Camden East, and an immature N.
Goshawk in a backyard off outer Montreal street. Other sightings north of
the 401 included 50 E. Meadowlarks in a field at the Camden Lake Wildlife
Area, 100+ Am. Pipits on the Moscow Road, 11 Rusty Blackbirds and 10
White-crowned Sparrows both in the Enterprise area.
Cheers,
Peter Good
Kingston Field Naturalists
613 378-6605
