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Request for Information => Birding Areas => Topic started by: Grant on October 05, 2007, 10:02:12 AM

Title: Birding Photography Lower Humber River
Post by: Grant on October 05, 2007, 10:02:12 AM

I have seen some many reports from this sewage lagoon or that sewage lagoon. I was wondering does anybody know about the water treatment plant just before the mouth of the Humber River?? Is this a good place to go look for birds does anybody no if there is any access along the lower part of the Humber River by foot??

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Post by: Kin Lau on October 05, 2007, 11:17:23 AM

Try the following link for a walking trail map from the Old Mill area down to the lake.

http://www.toronto.ca/parks/brochures/w ... rRiver.pdf (http://www.toronto.ca/parks/brochures/walks/DW_HumberRiver.pdf)

We found a very tame Great Egret at the Old Mill area a week ago.

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Post by: Joe on October 05, 2007, 03:52:31 PM

There is limited access on foot.  I posted a few weeks ago about a kayak trip down the humber.  We started at Old Mill and went as far as the most southerly marsh (before Queensway).  It was a great trip.  Lots of birds.

Joe

Title: Treatment vrs. sewage lagoon.
Post by: Ron Luft on October 11, 2007, 11:07:54 AM

There is a difference between a treatment facillity such as on the Humber and a sewage lagoon. The Humber treatment Facillity itself is a heavily engineered processing facillity and as such offers little of no habitat for any life except microbial. sewage lagoons rely on time and more natural processes that are less engineered and do provide some habitat to waterfowl, shorebirds and many other fauna including microbial. The area around the lower Humber does have good habitats but as has been described; limited access.