Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: BetCrooks on April 23, 2013, 05:39:24 PM
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There are two storm water ponds off 6th Line just south of Dundas in Oakville. One pond is directly in front of the Wellspring Centre.
In that particular pond today were
-3 cormorants
-1 male and 2 female blue winged teal
-2 pairs of ring necked ducks
-the usual suspects: red winged black birds m and f; mourning doves; killdeer; mallards; Canada Geese; robins; grackles; starlings
In the second pond (closer to Walmart), there were 2 terns steadily fishing. I'm no expert, so I'll post a photo below, but they were huge and I believe they were Caspian terns. Noisy too.
I asked a fisher what fish were in the ponds, as they are landlocked. He said they had been stocked with at least bass and crappie.
If you want to double check the location, you can enter the following on Google Maps to pull up the view:
Wellspring Centre, Sixth Line, Oakville, ON
There is quite a bit of free parking along Central Park drive during the business day.
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I wanted to confirm your sighting. I was at the Neyagawa NHS area north of Dundas and I lso encountered the terns ( most likely Caspian Terns) overflying the ponds in that area (although these ponds are not stocked with fish.
Regarding the Cormorants, I had spotted at the 6th Line ponds on Thursday of last week at least 11 of them. On Saturday at the Neyagawa Pond at the old Horse Farm pond (corner of Neyagawa Rd and Burnhamthorpe) also saw at least an other 6 Cormorants. I must say I had never seen so many of them so far up from the lake. I am finding it odd to finsd them in what was normally geese territory. Any idea why?
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I think the Cormorants are migrating so they are stopping wherever there is water for a rest before proceeding north.
Just to clarify for others, my sightings were in 2013.