This report is a day early as I am away starting tomorrow; just as well given the large number of new arrivals this week. There was a Green Heron on Amherst Island a week ago. The Collins Creek marsh on Unity Road had Am. Bittern, Virginia Rail and Sora on Monday and a DU marsh near Camden East had an Am. Bittern on Monday and a Virginia Rail today. Sandhill Cranes were heard near the Florida Road on Tuesday. Shorebird migration has yet to pick up; there was an Upland Sandpiper on Wolfe Island last Thursday, Wilson's Phalarope on the KFN property on Amherst on Monday, and a Solitary Sandpiper at the Queen's University Biological Station today.
For a change there is not much to report in the way of owls. Three Short-eared were seen on Amherst on Sunday and a Long-eared was found at QUBS. Also at QUBS ,Barred Owls are calling regularly. Adding to the night chorus Whip-poor-wills are all of a sudden all over the place; Bedford Mills on Sunday, Napanee and Little Cataraqui on Monday and at QUBS today. Two Chimney Swifts arrived in Napanee on Saturday and more were on the Queen's campus on Tuesday. Barn Swallows were reported on Amherst on the 22nd and at Lansdowne on the 26th. More Purple Martins were on Wolfe and at Westport on the 23rd and 24th respectively. Three species of flycatcher arrived this week: E. Kingbird on the Canoe Lake Road on Saturday, on Amherst on Monday and at Perth Road Village on Tuesday; Least on the 27th and Great Crested on the 28th, both at QUBS. Blue-gray Gnatcatchers were first seen at the biology station on Monday. There was a Wood Thrush at Little Cataraqui on Tuesday and a Gray Catbird on the K&P Trail today. A Baltimore Oriole sang near Camden East this morning. Winter Wrens were noted at Bedford Mills on the 18th and 21st and two more were at Little Cataraqui on the 26th. A Marsh Wren was on Wolfe on Thursday and House Wrens arrived at Bedford Mills and Camden East on Tuesday. Vireos in order of appearance; Blue-headed at Little Cataraqui on the 26th, Warbling at Bedford Mills on the 27th, and seven Yellow-throated on the Opinicon Road today. A Fox Sparrow was in the city on the 22nd, another at Camden East on the 23rd and one more at Elginburg on the 28th. There were more Swamp Sparrows on Wolfe, a Field Sparrow at Bedford Mills and on one day at least several White-throated and White-crowned at Little Cat. Rose-breasted Grosbeaks were at Camden East and Elginburg on Tuesday and on Howe Island today. We have tallied 12 species of warbler so far. This week: Pine on Amherst, on the Florida road, at little Cat, and at Bedford Mills; Black-and white at Little Cat and Bedford Mills; Common Yellowthroat in the city; Black-throated Green, Ovenbird, N. Parula and N. Waterthrush at QUBS; Magnolia, Yellow-rumped, Nashville and Yellow at Little Cat; and the "bird of the week" a Worm-eating Warbler at Little Cataraqui last Saturday. 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/
