For the record, since the last week in April, and in order up untill today, Pectoral Sandpipers, Spotted Sandpipers, Dunlin, Least Sandpipers and Semi-palmated plovers have been moving through Reesor Pond. Nothing unusual about the dates except I have not seen Least SPs or SP Plovers being reported elsewhere - not even at Point Pelee - which suggests that perhaps Reesor lies closer to the east coast migration paths - cheers - Stan Long From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri May 4 09:16:29 2007 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts36.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.93]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C71B63494 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 4 May 2007 09:16:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from queens5kg564bn ([216.208.193.32]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.netSMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Fri, 4 May 2007 09:16:27 -0400 From: "Peter and Jane Good" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 09:15:26 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Importance: Normal Subject: [Ontbirds]Kingston area birds to May 4, 2007 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 13:16:29 -0000
There was a tagged Trumpeter Swan (#861) on Amherst Island (A.I.) last weekend. With only Brant left to go through and the seven Rough-legged Hawks on A.I. last Tuesday as the last remnant of winter we can turn our attention to shorebirds and warblers. The highlight of the week was the Marbled Godwit on the Amherst KFN property, found on Tuesday and still present yesterday. There was a single Lesser Yellowlegs on A.I. last Saturday and 4 by May 1st. Also seen on Tuesday; 1 Spotted, 1 Pectoral, and 6 Upland Sandpipers, as well as 6 Wilson's Phalarope. The first Least of the year was at Odessa on Wednesday and another 6 were on A.I. on Thursday along with the first Semipalmated Plover of the season. New warblers this week included Black and White on the Canoe Lake Road (CLR) as well as Black-throated Green and Yellow in the Owl Woods on Amherst. Other passerines noted were a Rose-breasted Grosbeak (CLR) and a Blue-headed Vireo as well as 40 Rusty Blackbirds on A.I. in what seems to be the most prolonged and abundant movement of these blackbirds that I can recall. There was a Rough-winged Swallow at Millhaven on Saturday and 4 Bank Swallows near Wilton on Tuesday. Twelve Am. Pipits flitted over the KFN property on Wednesday. All the expected terns are back; 24 Caspians loafing in a wet field at Adolphustown last Saturday, another 12 at the Amherstview sewage lagoons on Tuesday, a Black Tern on the KFN property Tuesday, 3 more on Thursday as well as 2 at the lagoons. There was also a Common Tern at the lagoons on Thursday. A Green Heron was seen in the city and an Am. Bittern at Sydenham on Saturday and a Common Moorhen was near Sydenham on Wednesday. The first Whip-poor-will was reported from Bedford Mills on May 2nd and from that same location on the morning of May 3rd an unlikely duet. "Each time the loon called the song was ended by a Wild Turkey gobbling loudly just below our bedroom window." Try that story on the next non-birder that wonders why we do what we do. Cheers, Peter Good Kingston Field Naturalists 613 378-6605
