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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Ed O'Connor on May 19, 2013, 09:00:00 AM

Title: Black-bellied Plover on the Spit
Post by: Ed O'Connor on May 19, 2013, 09:00:00 AM

High water levels mean that shorebirds--apart from Killdeer and Spotted Sandpiper--are in short supply on the
Spit these days. However, yesterday afternoon, a single Black-bellied Plover was resting on one of the Common Tern nesting sites in Cell 1.

I saw a female Orchard Oriole just south of the Owl Woods, and a male and second-year male of the same species in an open field near the lake end of the Spit. The second-year bird was singing loudly from the top of a shrub.

Between the Wet Woods and the rest of the park, I found a dozen species of warblers, including a female Northern Parula and my first Bay-breasted of the spring.

Title: Re: Black-bellied Plover on the Spit
Post by: nana on May 19, 2013, 04:56:03 PM

Sadly, I couldn't find the Black-bellied Plover this afternoon, but there was a wonderful flock (25 - 30) of Dunlin and Least Sandpipers zipping around Cell 1, snagging bugs off leaves and finding grubs on the stony pathways and scrubland down by the fish gate. Some rested on rocks as well. Eastern Kingbirds and new goslings with watchful parents.