Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: souci on April 03, 2015, 01:00:58 PM
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Second warm day in a row, and I went out to my backyard at about 10:30 to find an adorable mixed flock around the birch trees. Golden-crowned Kinglets, so tiny, and a very similar bird but larger that I have finally concluded might have been a Yellow-rumped Warbler. It is possible, but I would feel better about it if someone else has also started seeing them. There were Dark-eyed Juncos on the ground and singing away. And out with them, but silent, were also a pair of Norhtern Cardinals and a pair of Chickadees and some White-breasted Nuthatches, who appear to be trying to make a nesting hole in my stucco!
In other news, I saw the first Red-winged Blackbirds and American Robins on the same day, for the first time ever, on Mar 17 at Downsview Park. A couple of days later I could hear them around my house, which is nearby. Late-normal according to my records.
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There was a report of a Yellow-rumped Warbler from Pinery Provincial Park yesterday, so definitely possible. They are known to try to winter, so could either be one that has managed to survive this cold winter or an early migrant.
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Well, that is promising, but then no other reports around Toronto. The bird seemed to part of the little flock passing thru...
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1 Yellow-rump was reported at Saddington Park in Port Credit on Apr 3.
We saw 1 at Humber Bay East on Apr 7.
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2 Yellow-rumped Warblers at TTP today. As well as an Eastern Bluebird.