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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: adonbirder on December 22, 2007, 03:29:21 PM

Title: 3 Owls, Northern Goshawk Leslie Spit Saturday
Post by: adonbirder on December 22, 2007, 03:29:21 PM

Hi went for a quick hike at Tommy Thompson Park aka the Leslie Spit and was worth the morning walk.
Saw 3 owls, Barred, Long-eared and Great Horned. Also saw 2 Peregrine falcons, 1 was harassing a Northern Goshawk ,real neat.
Other highlights include 2 Northern Shrikes, flocks of common redpolls, 3 horned larks, 4 tundra swans, 4 types of gulls (Great Black-backed, Herring, Ring-billed and Bonapartes) and the usual rafts of ducks in the open water. Also saw a huge beaver by the little red bridge. Was a nice day to be out

Andrew Don


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Post by: Papagano on December 22, 2007, 05:34:46 PM

Andrew,

I was just wondering what area of the spit did you see the owls.  I may check out the T.T park  area tomorow and if i had a general idea of where they like to roost it would be quite helpful.

thanks man

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Post by: adonbirder on December 22, 2007, 09:27:33 PM

try around by where they do the bird banding, down the first peninsula, also past the little red bridge and on the right good area too