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Kingston Area Birds: 12th – 18th December 2020

Kingston Field Naturalists (KFN) maintains records in a 50km radius ofMacDonald Park, Kingston. Birders using eBird are encouraged to share theirsightings with ‘Kingston FN’. Alternatively, please email or send recordsdirectly to me – contact details below. Please note that some sightings mayrequire review and remain unconfirmed unless stated otherwise. Special Note re Owl Woods Owl … Read more

Kingston Area Birds: 5th – 11th December 2020

Kingston Field Naturalists (KFN) maintains records in a 50km radius ofMacDonald Park, Kingston. Birders using eBird are encouraged to share theirsightings with ‘Kingston FN’. Alternatively, please email or send recordsdirectly to me – contact details below. Please note that some sightings mayrequire review and remain unconfirmed unless stated otherwise. Special Note re Owl Woods Owl … Read more

Kingston Area Birds: 28th November – 4th December 2020

Kingston Field Naturalists (KFN) maintains records in a 50km radius ofMacDonald Park, Kingston. Birders using eBird are encouraged to share theirsightings with ‘Kingston FN’. Alternatively, please email or send recordsdirectly to me – contact details below. Please note that some sightings mayrequire review and remain unconfirmed unless stated otherwise. Special Note re Owl Woods The … Read more

Kingston Area Birds: 21st – 27th November 2020

Compiled by Mark Read Kingston Field Naturalists (KFN) maintains records in a 50km radius ofMacDonald Park, Kingston. Birders using eBird are encouraged to share theirsightings with ‘Kingston FN’. Alternatively, please email or send recordsdirectly to me – contact details below. Please note that some sightings mayrequire review and remain unconfirmed unless stated otherwise. Special Note … Read more

Kingston Area Birds: 14th – 20th November 2020

By Mark Read Kingston Field Naturalists (KFN) maintains records in a 50km radius ofMacDonald Park, Kingston. Birders using eBird are encouraged to share theirsightings with ‘Kingston FN’. Alternatively, please email or send recordsdirectly to me – contact details below. Please note that some sightings mayrequire review and remain unconfirmed unless stated otherwise. Special Note re … Read more

Canadian Bat Box Project

Canadian Bat Box Project By: Karen Vanderwolf If you have a bat box I want to know about it! Bats in Canada face multiple threats from habitat loss and disease. As towns and cities expand, the large old trees that bats call home are being cleared, and bats are losing their roosts. Bats need a … Read more

Fall Roundup – We need your pictures!

The Fall Round-up took place between Friday Nov 6 and Sunday Nov 8. The summary of the birds found is now on the Birding in the Kingston Area page. There are 32 birds mentioned in the article.  We have pictures for 8 of the actual birds seen that day (Snowy Owl, Barred Owl, Short-eared Owl, … Read more

Fall Roundup 2020

By Erwin Batalla The format for the 55th KFN Fall Round-up was the same as last year, with the focus on obtaining a better picture of the birds in the whole study area in early November.  Birds were recorded between noon Friday November 6 and noon Sunday November 8. Following the trend in the past … Read more

Message from the President – Virtual Meetings

As we head into the autumn it appears that COVID 19 will continue to restrict the face to faceactivities of the KFN. With appropriate infection control measures in place, we hope to be able tocontinue field trips and rambles. The Blue Bill, Newsletters, Facebook, Flickr and the normalactivities of the Executive continue unchanged. For many … Read more