Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Brian Bailey on December 30, 2013, 09:54:59 PM
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I visited Humber Bay Park East this afternoon hoping to find the Pied-billed Grebe reported last week. I quickly found it, then scanning the rest of the waterfowl, I found a second one. A shrike came by while I was watching them.
I spotted a few Ruddy Ducks in the bay. When I got to the eastern headland, there was a flock of 60 close to shore, making 65 all together. That's by far the largest flock I've ever seen there at any time of year.
Other unusual sightings were a Glaucous Gull and 10 Great Black-backed Gulls. Gulls in general were pretty scarce and they were the most numerous species. That doesn't happen often!
BB
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I saw Pied-billed Grebes there back in early November. It was my first time seeing them at HBE but not my first time ever seeing the species.
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It's been a pretty good spot to find them over the years (but not in breeding season). I noticed later that 2 had been reported there a few weeks ago, so I suppose it wasn't that remarkable after all.
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I don't know much about Grebes and other shorebirds; PIed-billed seem less common in my travels compared to other species. My first sighting of them was in Brighton Ont.