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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Bird Brain on April 28, 2015, 12:06:50 PM

Title: Maplewood Park - Cooper's Hawk, Brown Creeper, etc.
Post by: Bird Brain on April 28, 2015, 12:06:50 PM: Hi everyone. I was at Maplewood Park this morning from 9:15-11:15am and sighted the following:

Blue Jays
Brown Creeper
Cardinals
Chickadees

Cooper's Hawk x 2 (1 adult male and 1 adult female) - the male was perched on a tree branch and the female was flying around the middle woods, both "kekking" up a storm! I'm really hoping this year they will mate/nest/have babies - it's been awhile.

Downy Woodpecker x 1 (male)

House Finches
House Sparrows
Kinglets
Robins

Red-breasted Nuthatches
White-breasted Nuthatches

Other: Mourning Cloak butterfly x 1

Maplewood Park: East side of Glen Erin Dr., 1 1/2 blocks North of Aquitaine Ave. Park co-ordinates: 43.5899,-79.7599
Title: Re: Maplewood Park - Cooper's Hawk, Brown Creeper, etc.
Post by: Bird Brain on May 01, 2015, 11:29:11 AM: Wow, I almost fainted from shock this morning! A male and female Wood Duck are at Maplewood Park, flying around in the middle woods then standing on a high up tree branch at North end of the woods. I've never seen Wood Ducks at this park before! Lots of Pileated Woodpecker holes around so I wonder if they might use one for nesting? 8)
Title: Re: Maplewood Park - Cooper's Hawk, Brown Creeper, etc.
Post by: Pat Hodgson on May 01, 2015, 02:39:53 PM: they probably already are
Title: Re: Maplewood Park - Cooper's Hawk, Brown Creeper, etc.
Post by: Bird Brain on May 02, 2015, 12:26:58 PM: Quote from: "Pat Hodgson"
they probably already are
8)

The woods were extremely quiet today but no hawks around, no Wood Ducks sighted either. Between 11am-12 noon, sighted a male Hairy Woodpecker and a White-breasted Nuthatch (such a beautiful bird!) within inches of my face. Lots of Trillium flowers.
Title: Re: Maplewood Park - Cooper's Hawk, Brown Creeper, etc.
Post by: ostrich on May 02, 2015, 02:45:26 PM: I'm happy to hear the hawks have been around again. Any sign of a nest? My local pair just laid in the last week or so.
Title: Re: Maplewood Park - Cooper's Hawk, Brown Creeper, etc.
Post by: winz on May 02, 2015, 04:56:54 PM: I was there around 2:30 pm and saw a pair of Red-breasted Nuthatch working on a nest cavity in a dead tree. The male was also feeding the female while she was working on the cavity :o
Title: Re: Maplewood Park - Cooper's Hawk, Brown Creeper, etc.
Post by: Bird Brain on May 02, 2015, 06:12:57 PM: Hi ostrich. Just seeing old nests, a few which were "dummy" nests. Not seeing them building any new nest. :| It might be another one of these years where they have the babies elsewhere (unknown location) then bring them to Maplewood Park for hunting.

Hi winz. :) Thinking this will be a good month to focus on Maplewood Park. Apparently at Lake Aquitaine, there's a Robin with a white head and white back - haven't seen this one yet but a lot of people have seen it this week at East end of lake. Might wander down to Lake Wabukayne tomorrow to see what's around - will decide in the morning.
Title: Re: Maplewood Park - Cooper's Hawk, Brown Creeper, etc.
Post by: Bird Brain on May 12, 2015, 10:49:19 AM: This morning, 9:30-10:30am, sighted: Cardinal x 1 (male).

Could hear lots of Chickadees, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Pileated Woodpecker and Robins but not seen. No sign of hawks or Wood Ducks. Lots of Trillium flowers.
Quite windy this morning - love feeling and hearing this through the trees in the woods. Everything flowering in the neighbourhood - smells wonderful! :D
Title: Re: Maplewood Park - Cooper's Hawk, Brown Creeper, etc.
Post by: Bird Brain on May 16, 2015, 10:24:55 AM: Hi everyone. This morning between 6:30-8:00am, the male and female Wood Duck were flying in & out of the middle woods - hadn't seen them since May 1st.