There has been some good warbler movement this week with 11 species tallied at
Bedford Mills last Sunday, along with three vireo species, and a good variety
on Garden Island on Tuesday. Unusual species included a Wilson's in
Barriefield, a Golden-winged on Garden Island and a Connecticut near Camden
East.
Nighthawks are being recorded in large numbers. Four flocks totalling almost 80
birds were seen in the Morton/Crosby area and another flock of 15 was near
Elginburg on Wednesday.
It has been a great week for shorebirds as well. A trip to the cormorant
breeding islands between Kingston and Amherst Island on Tuesday found Greater
Yellowlegs, and Spotted, Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers as well as 2 Baird's
Sandpipers on Snake Island. (Almost all the young cormorants have left the
nest.) There were a couple of Black-crowned Night-Herons on the Brothers
Islands. There was another Baird's and a Stilt in the Wilton Creek near Morven
and two more Stilt Sandpipers at the lagoons, all found on Tuesday. There
continues to be very large numbers of Lesser Yellowlegs on the algae mats in
the Cataraqui River. On Amherst there were 3 Whimbrel and 3 Black-bellied
Plovers on Wednesday. Best shorebird of the week was a Ruff at the sod farm on
the Mud Lake Road on Tuesday.
A few noteworthy raptors included a pair of Great Horned Owls near Newburgh on
Sunday and a Merlin on Amherst on Wednesday. That same afternoon a pair of Bald
Eagles (one a dark young bird, the other an almost adult-white but not
immaculate white head and tail) roosted in a dead tree off The Bar on Amherst.
It appears that the Glossy Ibis that put in a brief appearance at Prince Edward
Point on Monday has made its way to Amherst Island. The bird was probing along
the west shore of the pond behind the dike on the KFN property on Wednesday.
Cheers,
Peter Good
Kingston Field Naturalists
613 378-6605
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