Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: thouc on May 05, 2012, 04:40:50 PM
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A great surprise today at Darlington Provincial Park - a White-winged Crossbill, my first for Ontario. When I was about to leave I spotted a red bird with hooked bill and white wing bars, definitely a White-winged Crossbill. I certainly didn't expect one at this time of the year, after missing them the whole winter season! Other birds of interest were Chestnut-sided, Palm and Yellow-rumped Warblers, Willow Flycatcher, Eastern Towhee, Swamp, Song, White-throated and White-crowned Sparrows, Spotted Sandpiper and Common Tern. Almost all of the interseting passerines were in a row of bushes and trees near the washrooms at the beach parking.
2 Canada Goose
2 Mallard
12 Bufflehead
20 Red-breasted Merganser
10 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Spotted Sandpiper
25 Ring-billed Gull
1 Common Tern
2 Northern Flicker
1 Willow Flycatcher
3 Blue Jay
2 American Crow
1 Tree Swallow
10 American Robin
1 Gray Catbird
5 European Starling
1 Chestnut-sided Warbler
3 Palm Warbler
10 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Eastern Towhee
3 Song Sparrow
1 Swamp Sparrow
5 White-throated Sparrow
2 White-crowned Sparrow
1 Northern Cardinal
30 Red-winged Blackbird
10 Brown-headed Cowbird
1 White-winged Crossbill