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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Bird Brain on June 20, 2019, 11:52:30 AM

Title: Great Blue Heron lands in my neighbour's back yard!
Post by: Bird Brain on June 20, 2019, 11:52:30 AM

Hi everyone.  Some excitement this morning at 10:45am - a Great Blue Heron was circling above Elora Dr. then landed in my neighbour's back yard! (just North of Rathburn Rd.) - Mississauga :D  8)

Title: Re: Great Blue Heron lands in my neighbour's back yard!
Post by: orchidpoet on June 20, 2019, 02:50:43 PM

I have found a part of the answer. It's some kind of flycatcher.

Is it the great crested flycatcher, or brown crested?

Title: Re: Great Blue Heron lands in my neighbour's back yard!
Post by: Bird Brain on June 20, 2019, 04:59:05 PM

Hi orchidpoet ... sorry, your posting has gone into the wrong thread.

Title: Re: Great Blue Heron lands in my neighbour's back yard!
Post by: Shortsighted on June 20, 2019, 05:27:22 PM

Nothing is more interesting than a clever GBH and I guess
that from your surprise guest's perspective nothing is more interesting
than your neighbour's backyard. Maybe your neighbour has an extraordinary
bird bath. I'm imagining the 7th wonder of Mississauga. Perhaps you could
suggest that your neighbour erect a statue of a Great Blue Heron in the
backyard as a tribute to this special occasion. You did film it, didn't you.

Title: Re: Great Blue Heron lands in my neighbour's back yard!
Post by: Dinusaur on June 20, 2019, 06:50:23 PM

Or a backyard fish pool with bright colored gold fish in it. Or he is after some nestlings that he spotted while flying overhead. Interesting to see one at the backyard no doubt.

Title: Re: Great Blue Heron lands in my neighbour's back yard!
Post by: jnish on June 20, 2019, 07:29:38 PM

I laugh every time I look at this photo of a GBH camouflaging himself amid the blue striped cushions!
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48100180892_3358109070.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2ghrZZE)IMG_0170_1 (https://flic.kr/p/2ghrZZE) by Jane Nishikawa (https://www.flickr.com/photos/138568556@N08/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Great Blue Heron lands in my neighbour's back yard!
Post by: Bird Brain on June 21, 2019, 10:36:20 AM

Quote from: "jnish"

I laugh every time I look at this photo of a GBH camouflaging himself amid the blue striped cushions!
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48100180892_3358109070.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2ghrZZE)IMG_0170_1 (https://flic.kr/p/2ghrZZE) by Jane Nishikawa (https://www.flickr.com/photos/138568556@N08/), on Flickr

That is hilarious!   :lol:

Title: Re: Great Blue Heron lands in my neighbour's back yard!
Post by: Bird Brain on June 21, 2019, 10:41:08 AM

Quote from: "Dinusaur"

Or he is after some nestlings that he spotted while flying overhead.

Hmmm ... lately, seeing a lot of baby House Sparrows, baby Robins and baby Starlings in the neighbourhood - sadly, finding some of them dead on the sidewalk, covered in very active flies.   :cry:

Baby Grackles are alive and healthy, being fed by the parents.

Title: Re: Great Blue Heron lands in my neighbour's back yard!
Post by: Bird Brain on June 21, 2019, 10:43:34 AM

Quote from: "Shortsighted"

I'm imagining the 7th wonder of Mississauga. Perhaps you could
suggest that your neighbour erect a statue of a Great Blue Heron in the
backyard as a tribute to this special occasion.

That is truly sarcastic and warped - my kind of humour!   :lol:

Title: Re: Great Blue Heron lands in my neighbour's back yard!
Post by: Howieh on June 21, 2019, 10:57:56 AM

I guess Hazel is the first wonder (meant as a compliment), not sure about the other five! :)

Title: Re: Great Blue Heron lands in my neighbour's back yard!
Post by: Shortsighted on June 21, 2019, 12:10:45 PM

You got that right! Hazel is the first and prime wonder of Mississauga.
The Marilyn Munroe building is probably on the list. Then there is the
collective wonder of the community of enthusiastic and skilled birders
that are out there where all the action is.