The KFN did their annual fall round-up last weekend and as with any 24 hour
birding endeavour there were some highlights. Best sighting was a Pacific Loon
at Prince Edward Point. There were also 5 Golden Eagles and 3 Black Scoters. On
Wolfe Island a flock of 8000 Redheads contained about 20 Canvasbacks, a duck
that has become very difficult to find in the Kingston area. The hybrid
Eurasian/American Wigeon was still in Elevator Bay on Saturday.
The movement of Evening Grosbeaks continues. On Monday there were 10 at Bedford
Mills and 15 near Bellrock; on Tuesday 1 at Camden East and on Wednesday
another singleton at Battersea. Another noteworthy movement (?) was the
sighting of not one but 2 Gray Jays; the first near Mallorytown just outside
the Kingston 50km circle and another north of Bellrock. The latest Cattle Egret
reported locally was one on Wolfe Island yesterday.
Lingering birds include 17 Golden-crowned Kinglets and 6 Brown Creepers at the
Queen's Biology Station a week ago, a Greater Yellowlegs on the Cataraqui River
and 3 Pectoral Sandpipers at the Hillview Marsh on Saturday, an Osprey at
Charleston Lake on Monday, a Turkey Vulure on Wolfe Island and a Chipping
Sparrow at Battersea yesterday and a Fox Sparrow and a Hermit Thrush on Amherst
Island today. The latest of all was a Yellow Warbler seen in Paterson Park just
west of the Invista Plant last Saturday.
Cheers,
Peter Good
Kingston Field Naturalists
613 378-6605
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