Kingston and Area Bird Sightings

Kingston Area Birds 11 January 2025 – 17 January 2025 Kingston Field Naturalists (KFN) maintain records in a 50km radius ofMacDonald Park, Kingston. Birders using eBird are encouraged to share theirsightings with ‘Kingston FN’. Alternatively, please email  records directlyto me – contact details below….

Ontario Rare Bird Report

Rare Bird Report for the week of January 10, 2025 This weekly report provides information about bird sightings that aresignificant due to the species, the location and/or time of year of thesighting.  Within these weekly reports, as much detail will be provided aspossible regarding…

Restoration Work at the Rice Lake Plains

Summaries of Prince Edward Point and Belleville Christmas Bird Counts

2024 Belleville CBC  Saturday, December 28th  The weather for 22nd Belleville CBC started with overcast conditions and light rain, +2 Celsius and icy roads, eventually staying mostly overcast with fog and warming to +7 Celsius.  Below freezing temperatures prior to Count Week caused the…

Quinte Field Naturalists Annual General Meeting

Winter Waterfowl Outing at Wellington Harbour

Growing Up Big Island (2021)

“GROWING UP BIG ISLAND” A look at life on Big Island growing up in the 1950s Terry’s new book, Growing Up Big Island, is his fifth literary effort, and relates his memories of growing up on “the Island” in the 1950s.  Contained are stories…

What Bird Species Can We Expect to See in January?

Although we can look at just about every month of the year as one in which bird species are either coming or going, January seems to be the only month of the year in which nothing arrives or departs. The rule, however, may be…

Prince Edward County Bird List

Prince Edward County Checklist of Birds(November, 2024) Because of its location in eastern Lake Ontario, Prince Edward County is a natural catch-all for migrating birds during both spring and fall. The points of land along the southern shore especially, provide excellent birding opportunities during…

26th Annual Winter Finch Forecast – 2024 – 2025

By Forecaster Tyler Hoar GENERAL FORECAST This year, a widespread cone crop reaches from northern British Columbia to eastern Quebec and down the western mountains. While there is a widespread crop, some areas have significant holes caused by insect infestations (Spruce Budworm, Tent Caterpillar,…

Birding Abandoned Fields

No doubt you have noticed as you have been driving the back roads this past month, birds flitting around in grassy meadows and darting from bush to bush. This month we check out the “little brown jobs,” the sparrows. They are passing through right…

Grant Mackay Nature Sounds

POINT PETRE – A Birder’s Paradise ( review by Terry Sprague) Recorded right at Prince Edward County’s Point Petre, this latest Earthhaven CD from Oasis Productions is sure to please. It was while I was having dinner with our neighbours awhile back when I…