The Northern Wheatear found last Thursday stayed until Saturday allowing several people to see and photograph the bird. It did however disappoint those who showed up on Sunday. Other birds on Wolfe Island included 65 N. Harriers and 73 Am. Kestrels the same day the wheatear was found. The next day, at the golf course down the road, there were 12 Black-bellied Plover and a Buff-breasted Sandpiper. The Amherstview sewage lagoons, although not having any shorebirds of note, did have 2 Rough-winged Swallows amid a flock of 300 Tree Swallows and a Ruddy Duck with several more common species of waterfowl. A farm near Gananoque, from which I get regular reports, mentioned 3 falcon species appearing simultaneously on Monday; the resident kestrels, 2 Merlin (apparently they are regular in the fall), and a Peregrine dining on an E. Meadowlark. Also on some nearby ponds; 2 Green Herons, a Hooded Merganser, 5 Ring-necked Ducks, a half dozen Wilson's Snipe and a Solitary Sandpiper. A Great Horned Owl hooted near Camden East at sunrise on Wednesday morning and at least for my back yard, the first Yellow-rumped Warbler of the fall appeared yesterday. The season seems about to change.
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