Although the waterfowl migration has been on the wane for quite a while, a few lingerers added some interest this week. A Black Duck and 2 male Hooded Mergansers were on the KFN property last Saturday and the Ruddy Duck was in the Amherstview sewage lagoons on Sunday. Yesterday on Amherst there were still 6 Brant as well as two each of Am. Wigeon and Common Merganser. The QUBS reported hundreds of moult migrant Canada Geese moving north this week.
Shorebird numbers have been dwindling all week. Here are the final tallies for the nine species seen on Amherst: 40 Ruddy Turnstones and a single Red Knot last Saturday, 2 Least and a Baird's Sandpiper as well as 2 Marbled Godwits on Sunday, and yesterday 25 Semipalmated Sandpiper, 1 White-rumped Sandpiper, 1 Short-billed Dowitcher and 8 Dunlin (down from the 200 or so that were more than a little agitated by a Peregrine Falcon last Saturday). The only warblers of note were a Canada and a Wilson's on Amherst a week ago, another Mourning was at QUBS on Wednesday and Blackpolls were reported from several locations early in the week but all seem to have gone by Thursday. Yellow-billed Cuckoos were at Elginburg and Elbow Lake and another Red-bellied Woodpecker was found at QUBS yesterday. The only rarity of the week; a pair of Yellow-headed Blackbirds were found along the road to the winter ferry dock on Wolfe Island last Sunday. 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 [email protected] 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
