I led an outing with fellow members of Kawartha Field Naturalists, last evening to do spring inspections on our Chimney Swift Towers In Fenelon Falls. Sadly, there was no evidence that they had roosted or nested in either tower. There were three Swifts actively hunting over the downtown area, much more interested in the abundant gnats and blackflies swarming around our heads, than the sound of the flight and mating calls we played to them from a hand held tape recorder, fitted with a pocket sized speaker.
Today, there were eight or nine swifts hunting over the downtown area in Lindsay. Over the past week, Purple Martins have returned to their favourite nesting apartment houses on a neighbour’s property in the Southview Estates in Cameron and a House Wren was heard singing his bubbly tune from my pine tree. Cheers, Judy Kennedy _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
