The Kingston Field Naturalists did their annual Fall Roundup last weekend within the Kingston 50km circle. A lot of the "good birds" were in Prince Edward County (see Terry Sprague's report) but we had some good sightings in the more immediate Kingston area as well. A single Brant is hanging around the east end of Amherst Island and another was found on the shore at the Dupont plant. There is a white Snow Goose in with thousands of Canadas just west of the village of Bath. The Eurasian Wigeon was still in Elevator Bay, there were several Ruddy Ducks in Hay Bay, and two Black Scoters were off Amherst last weekend.
Shorebirds have all but gone; a Ruddy Turnstone last Saturday, a Red Knot that stayed at least until Monday along with 3 Black-bellied Plovers on Amherst; 3 Killdeer at Millhaven on Sunday, and the hotspot locally; all sorts of Killdeer and Wilson's Snipe on the mudflats at the park in Adolphustown. Rough-legged Hawk numbers are on the increase as are the reports of Barred Owls. There are some Long-eared Owls in the Owl Woods on Amherst but certainly not yet in the numbers of years past. ( a reminder that the Owl woods will be closed to the public from Nov. 24th to Dec 9th because of deer hunting.) A Merlin was on Amherst last Sunday and a Peregrine Falcon was seen on the Queen's University campus yesterday. Miscellaneous sightings included; a Little Gull in Elevator Bay last weekend, a Red-bellied Woodpecker on Amherst on Sunday, and 35 Wild Turkeys strutting across a plowed field near Camden East on Tuesday. A late report had a male Black-backed Woodpecker at Charleston Lake P.P. on Halloween. 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 ONTBIRDS@hwcn.org For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdssetup.php ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdsguide.php
