Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Shortsighted on June 26, 2024, 01:39:34 PM
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Both cygnets and BCNH were reported a couple of days ago but I didn't see either. The protected lagoon didn't feature any herons at all. Almost every bird that I saw was a RW blackbird. One again, there was a Gray catbird that couldn't stop singing. I saw one E. kingbird and one Willow FC but they took off almost immediately. There was a female House finch in a spruce tree carrying nesting material and it returned to the same bough several times thereby indicating a nest was present but unseen from the ground. I stayed a while hoping that the male finch would show up and it did appear on-scene within a few minutes. On the beach I scanned the brink of the bluffs and saw a Red-tailed hawk way up there. It would swoop over to a colony of nesting swallows and pick one out to play with and then return to the cliff's edge. Nasty business. Out on the water the city had a cormorant performing semaphore duty for the local kayakers. Nice touch.
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Female House finch collecting nesting material
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Male House finch slacking off
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RTH with swallow ... barely a swallow
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Cormorant on semaphore duty