[Ontbirds]Kingston area birds to March 9, 2007

This week has been a bit of a pre-spring deep freeze and birding reports were few and far between. There are very few gulls along the ferry channels; numbers usually increase as the days get longer; the number of leads of open water off the south shore of Amherst Island has shrunk as has the variet

[Ontbirds]Kingston area birds to March 9

Spring weather is in the forecast and the birds are more aware than we that the season is about to change. Large concentrations of gulls and waterfowl make for some interesting birding. West of the Lennox generating station are many rafts of waterfowl with an especially large group of swans, geese