Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: nkwali on May 24, 2017, 01:26:23 PM
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Things seem to be slowing down a bit after the excitement of the Piping Plover at Ashbridges Bay this week.
Today (Wednesday)
A few shorebirds still hanging around
Dunlin
Sanderling
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Semipalmated Plover
And 5 Trumpeter Swans have been in the new part of the bay for the past two days.
Warblers:
A lone (and probably confused) Yellow-rumped
lots of Yellow
Chestnut-sided
Highlight for today:
Philadelphia Vireo in the low trees near the parking lot
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Jean Iron reported seeing a (different) piping plover at Ashbridges Bay today
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I was there late in the afternoon and saw the Piping Plover together with other shorebirds mentioned above. I also saw the following:
one Magnolia, a Common Yellowthroat, a Tennessee Warbler, quite a few Cedar Waxwings, a pair of Warbling vireos, a Swainson's Thrush, one Yellow-bellied Flycatcher and lots of Baltimore Orioles.
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Spent some time at Ashbridges this morning (Friday). There weren't a lot of shorebirds, but some variety. And then as I was leaving a bunch of warblers by the parking lot (near the hawthorn)
Shorebirds:
Ruddy Turnstone
Spotted Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Semipalmated Plover
Sanderling
Bonaparte's gull
Warblers
Yellow
Blackburnian (female)
Chestnut-sided
Redstart (female)
Blackpoll
Add others reported
Canada
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Had a pair of greater yellowlegs today on woodbine beach at around 6 am. Right in the middle of the water on the flooded beach at the eastern end (further away from Ashbridge's). Beak was very long and slightly upturned. I heard one of them calling over and over as I observed them.