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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: thouc on September 17, 2012, 12:56:43 PM

Title: Humber Bay Park East
Post by: thouc on September 17, 2012, 12:56:43 PM
Some nice variety at Humber Bay today, high-lights for me was my FOY Wilson's Warbler. A female Northern Pintail was also a nice surprise.

Toronto--Humber Bay Park East, Toronto, CA-ON
17-Sep-2012 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.5 kilometer(s)
20 species

Gadwall  10
Mallard  15
Northern Pintail  1
Green-winged Teal  1
Double-crested Cormorant  10
Great Egret  3
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Least Sandpiper  1
Ring-billed Gull  10
Downy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  1
Red-breasted Nuthatch  1
American Robin  4
European Starling  10
Magnolia Warbler  1
Bay-breasted Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  3
Wilson's Warbler  1
Song Sparrow  2
White-throated Sparrow  1

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Title: Re: Humber Bay Park East
Post by: Photowyzard on September 20, 2012, 08:03:08 PM
Great sightings, I will add:

King Fisher (2)
Great Blue Heron (2)
Green Heron (1)
Juvi Night Heron (1)
Thompson's Hawk (2) - I heard someone else who saw it say it was a Thomson's, my guess would have been a Cooper's Hawk.  I did take some pictures of it.
and up to 8 Great Egrets!

Good catch on the Northern Pintail, I saw it as well.
Title: Re: Humber Bay Park East
Post by: thouc on September 20, 2012, 10:13:23 PM
Have never heard of a Thompson's Hawk. Cooper's sounds more likely...
Title: Re: Humber Bay Park East
Post by: Trillian Flummox on September 22, 2012, 01:18:25 PM
Enjoyed a visit on Friday. Still a number of shorebirds on the mudflats (before a Peregrine chased them away) and the winter ducks are increasing in number, but no sign of the Pintail:

Gadwall 30
Green-winged Teal 8
American Wigeon 6
Northern Shoveler 5
Common Goldeneye 4

Also a nice assortment of warblers, White-throated Sparrows, a family of 4 Mockingbirds, and a Brown Thrasher.