Greetings and Happy New Year to all. This morning I and my brother arrived at
the tip of Point Pelee at 8:15 a.m. to find hundreds of gulls streaming north
up the west beach. We decided to start scoping them right away from the tip
parking lot rather than continue on to the extreme tip as we normally would.
Within minutes I had an adult Glaucous Gull, but started to focus on the many
Bonaparte's that were passing by in waves. At 8:35 I had a great look at a
first winter Black-headed Gull, a lifer I've been after for many years. It
continued to fly north-northwest up the beach along with all the other gulls
that were coming in off the lake.
We proceeded to the extreme tip shortly afterward and I got another adult
Glaucous there but nothing else of interest, and the flow of gulls ended
abruptly at about 9:45 a.m. Around noon, we ended up at Wheatley Harbour where
hundreds of gulls were also present on the water, but I could not find anything
noteworthy there.
Randy Horvath, Windsor
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Subject: [Ontbirds]Kingston area birds to Jan 6 2006
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There's nothing like an avid bunch of winter listers and a new year to get
all sorts of good birds. Lake Ontario is not yet frozen ; that coupled with
the fact that many spots north of the lake also remain ice free means that
there is quite a good variety of waterfowl about.Fourteen species were
reported on Jan 1 including: Gadwall, G W Teal,and Hooded Merganser.Later in
the week a Wood Duck was found at Collin's Bay and two Trumpeter Swans were
at Chaffey's Lock.The lagoon at Dupont seems to have the highest
concentration of ducks as well as many gulls and up to 6 coots.
Other good birds seen this week were a robin and a Carolina Wren east of the
city,a Great Blue Heron and a kingfisher at Collin's Bay, a White-crowned
Sparrow north of Bath and a Savannah Sparrow on Wolfe Island.
All three accipiters were reported:a Goshawk at Chaffey's,a Cooper's hawk
north of Millhaven and a Sharp-shinned in the city.
With respect to owls there have been no subsequent reports of the Great Gray
on Amherst Island.There are a few snowies on both Wolfe and Amherst and a
Short-eared Owl was seen on Amherst Jan 1.Two Barred Owls were seen: one in
a backyard on Churchill Cres., the other at Chaffey's Lock.
Redpolls and siskins are scattered north of the city;some feeders have them
regularly, others intermittently but not as yet in very large numbers.Pine
Grosbeaks and Bohemian Waxwings were not reported.
Peter Good - Kingston Field Naturalists
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