Migration has been slow this week. New arrivals include Purple Martin and Barn Swallow as well as a Hermit Thrush on Amherst Island and a Broad-winged Hawk on the K&P Trail on Monday; then two Brown Thrashers on the K&P Trail the next day. A Fox Sparrow sang for several minutes at Camden East yesterday. A Pine Warbler and a White-throated Sparrow were at Bedford Mills and many other birds arrived almost simultaneously at several locations; Greater Yellowlegs, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, N. Rough-winged Swallows, E. Phoebes, Winter Wrens, E. Towhees, Chipping and Swamp Sparrows, more of both kinglets and Rusty Blackbirds.
Winter birds remain in good numbers. Three species of owl were tallied on Amherst on Monday including 5 Snowy Owls and there were more than five dozen Rough-legged hawks. Pine Siskins continue to devour niger seed at a prodigious rate at several sites and a pair of Common Redpolls visited the Bedford Mills feeder on Tuesday. Thirty Cedar Waxwings, an "Oregon" Dark-eyed Junco on the K&P Trail on Monday and a half dozen Purple Finches feeding on the flower buds of a Manitoba Maple near Camden East completes the list of hangers-on. 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 information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
