Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Bird Brain on April 17, 2013, 10:04:48 AM
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Hi everyone. I was at Lake Aquitaine this morning between 7:30-7:45am then again from 9:00-9:15am. Sighted the following:
American Coot x 1 ... swimming around then all of a sudden reared up and ran across the water really quickly, looked like bionic legs. Hilarious! :lol:
Belted Kingfisher - could hear him or her then sighted flying towards Lake Wabukayne.
Black-capped Chickadees
Bufflehead x 2 (1m, 1f)
Canada Geese
Downy Woodpeckers x 3 (females)
Grackles
gulls (mainly Ring-billed)
House Sparrows
Juncos
Mallards
Mourning Doves
Red-breasted Nuthatches
Red-tailed Hawk circling above lake
Red-winged Blackbirds
Robins
Song Sparrows
Starlings
Trumpeter Swans x 2 - wing tagged 038 and K09. J76 has left the lake and headed elsewhere a few days ago. Wow, 3 Trumpeter Swans at the lake this month - amazing and thrilling! :D
Have been sighting Great Blue Herons and Turkey Vultures flying by lately as well.
Out of the corner of my eye, could tell that something was walking directly behind me - just figured it was a squirrel or cat - turned to look ... HUGE Opossum, one of the biggest ones I've ever seen!
Lake Aquitaine: SE corner of Glen Erin Dr./Aquitaine Ave., behind the Meadowvale Community Centre.
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Trumpeter 038 has been hanging around the mouth of the Credit River most of the (late) winter/early spring. She was also here last winter, and I reported her number last year. Got a report back about her. A Trumpeter family at Aquitaine would be exciting.
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Hi Bob. This is great information to know! Explains why she was "talking" a lot this morning. haha :lol: