The KFN ran a field trip to Wolfe Island last Sunday. There are lots of waterfowl, nothing unexpected, but a flock of 1500 Redheads in Button Bay was quite impressive. Also there are good numbers of Tundra Swans in almost every bay in the Kingston area. Raptors were conspicuously absent; no Rough-legged Hawks or Snowy Owls and only a few Red-tails and Am. Kestrels. We did, however, have a N. Flicker and a Greater Yellowlegs. The only other shorebird noted was a Wilson's Snipe at the Queen's Biological Station last Saturday.
QUBS also had a Barred Owl on the 21st and the Short-eared Owl survey on Wolfe and Amherst Islands started this week. It was an auspicious beginning with a total of 30 owls found on Amherst on Tuesday evening. The only other "out-of-the-ordinary" sightings were a Belted Kingfisher at Bedford Mills last Friday, 3 Red-winged Blackbirds and a Brown-headed Cowbird at an Elginburg feeder on Wednesday and the Tufted Titmouse in Bath that paid a return visit on Monday. There are six local Christmas counts: Prince Edward Dec.19, Kingston Dec. 20, Westport Dec 22, Thousand Islands Dec. 26, Amherst Island Jan. 2 and Napanee Jan. 3. Details are on the KFN website. Cheers, Peter Good Kingston Field Naturalists 613 378-6605 _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
