Bird was located at Lemoine Point on 31 Dec 05 the the afternoon. Found along a trail on the west side of large open field.
Directions: From Hwy 401 follow directions to airport and continue past airport a few hundred meters to the Lemoine Point parking area. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 31 22:37:50 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.110]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2BE263E93 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 22:37:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from queens5kg564bn ([216.208.193.89]) by tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.netSMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[email protected]>; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 22:37:51 -0500 From: "Peter and Jane Good" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 22:37:21 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Importance: Normal X-Originating-IP: [0] Subject: [Ontbirds]Kingston area birds to Dec 31 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:37:51 -0000 Two Christmas bird counts were completed this week in the Kingston region: Napanee,Dec 29, the results of which are not yet available and Amherst Island, Dec 30.A larger than normal contingent of 30 birders in conditions much more favourable than the bitter cold of last year tallied 58 species. None of the water surrounding the island is frozen yet so waterfowl were quite dispersed. Nevertheless, among the 14 species of waterfowl were 2712 Common Goldeneye, 47 Tundra Swan and two each ofN. Pintail,Green-winged Teal,G. Scaup, and Ring-necked Duck. It is not a banner year for voles on the island so raptor numbers are in the dozens rather than the hundreds.The Owl Woods is hardly worth the walk (the road is not plowed in the winter);the Barred Owl is still there but Long-eareds are unreliable. A Short-eared Owl was flushed the day before the count and a Great Gray Owl was seen on the 2nd concession on Dec 27.Neither could be located on count day.Nine Snowy Owls, 10 Bald Eagles, 20 Red-tails, 8 Rough-legged Hawks,1 Kestrel, and 7 Harriers(many of them adult males) rounded out the raptor count. Other sightings in the Kingston area include:a coot swimming with mallards near the ferry dock in Kingston, Dec 24,a Great Blue Heron at an opening in a small pond NE of Camden East, Dec 27,several siskins and a Red-bellied Woodpecker frequenting a feeder north of Elginburg,and several Glaucous and at least one Iceland are among the 1000+ gulls at the Napanee dump. The last two birds reported this year were a male cowbird at a feeder in Camden East and an immature Northern Goshawk at Lemoine Pt.And that's it for 2005. Happy New Year! Peter Good Kingston Field Naturalists e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone 613 378 6605
