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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: pacharo on May 23, 2014, 12:09:01 PM

Title: Whimbrels at Colonel Sam
Post by: pacharo on May 23, 2014, 12:09:01 PM

Visited Colonel Sam Smith Park yesterday afternoon hoping to spot the whimbrels. I was lucky to be there at the right time around 3:30 PM when a flock (21 of them according to a report at ONTBIRDS) did a few passes near the South-East tip of the park before deciding to move on.

Thank you to the gentleman with a scope who pointed them out to me.

The photos won’t win any contest  but here are a couple:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/44921566@N07/14251700954/ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/44921566@N07/14251700954/)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/44921566@N07/14065392008/ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/44921566@N07/14065392008/)

Title: Re: Whimbrels at Colonel Sam
Post by: Dinusaur on May 23, 2014, 05:20:59 PM

Great sightings and good photos too. Thanks for sharing. I went there today between 12 and 1; saw flocks of Dunlins but no Whimbrel during that time. I heard tomorrow and Sunday will see the peak of their fly-by.