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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: nana on March 16, 2015, 04:18:14 PM

Title: Killdeer, WCSP, Bald Eagle - ABB, + Unwin
Post by: nana on March 16, 2015, 04:18:14 PM
One or more Killdeer have returned to Ashbridges Bay in the large puddles on the beach alongside many mallards. The juvenile White-crowned Sparrow has survived the winter and is still with the very vocal flock of Tree Sparrows at the 'stone beach'. A young Bald Eagle flew overhead going towards The Spit as I was leaving so I went in that direction on my way home but didn't see it along Unwin. A Kestrel was feeding on a mouse hi in a tree beside the little road in to the marina, a Raven was on its nest on the tower, the Peregrine was on the railing of the old building where it often spends time, a Red-tailed hawk was sitting in a tree on the edge of the Wet Woods, the Mockingbird was along Leslie atop a pole, Red-winged Blackbirds were everywhere, robins were singing, the Tundra swan was still at the bridge and all in all it felt like a taste of Spring.
Title: Re: Killdeer, WCSP, Bald Eagle - ABB, + Unwin
Post by: Napper on March 16, 2015, 06:15:34 PM
There were Killdeer at Downsview today at lunch.

Red winged Black birds at 9:30 am.

A Kestrel was performing the call, climb and dive routine around 1:30 pm across the whole length of the facility.


No Bald Eagles though.

Napper :D
Title: Re: Killdeer, WCSP, Bald Eagle - ABB, + Unwin
Post by: Rotarran on March 17, 2015, 08:54:21 AM
Hey Napper, is the ice starting to melt/crack/recede in the pond at Downsview?
Title: Re: Killdeer, WCSP, Bald Eagle - ABB, + Unwin
Post by: Napper on March 17, 2015, 04:41:56 PM
Sorry I can't see the pond from my vantage point inside the fence

 :(

Nothing worth noting today at Downsview