Hi Everyone Spent a couple of days, (Dec.12 &13) birding Amherst Island along with my son Ben. We had a total of 6 Snowy Owls, 4 on the KFN property and 2 along South Shore Road. Yesterday, the Short-eared Owls began to actively hunt at 3:15pm, in the bright sunshine along Front Road just east of Stella. There we counted 14 Short-eared. On Dec. 12th, at the KFN property at the gravel point we observed a Purple Sandpiper along with a Marsh Wren in the nearby cattails. Today there was a Greater Yellowlegs, and a Common Yellowthroat. Overall the hawk numbers were low with 18 Northern Harrier, 22 Rough-legged Hawk, 14 Red-tailed Hawk, 2 American Kestrel, 1 Cooper's Hawk plus 400 Mourning Dove, and 1 Merlin. If you require additional information please email me privately.
Good birding, Bruce and Ben Directions: Amherst Island: Located 18 km. west of Kingston. Exit off Hwy. 401 at exit 593 (County Rd. 4, Camden East) and drive south to the very end (Millhaven). Turn right on Hwy. 33 and drive 100 metres until you see the sign for the Amherst Island ferry. The ferry (20 minute trip) leaves the mainland on the half hour and leaves the island on the hour. Cost is $9.00 Canadian round trip. There are no gas stations on the island. There are restrooms on the ferry, and at the island ferry dock. The East End K.F.N. property is at the easternmost part of the island on the east side of the Lower Forty Foot Road. Because of liability issues, visitors to the Kingston Field Naturalists' property at the east end of Amherst Island MUST be accompanied by a KFN member. For KFN contact information or how to become a member, please visit http://kingstonfieldnaturalists.org/ ." Di Labio Birding Website Courses and Field Trips http://www.dilabiobirding.ca http://www.brucedilabio.blogspot.com Bruce Di Labio 400 Donald B. Munro Drive P.O. Box 538 Carp, Ontario K0A 1L0 Office 613-839-4395 Cell 613-715-2571 _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
