Outdoor Ontario
Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Shortsighted on April 27, 2025, 02:19:36 PM
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A beautiful morning with full sun and a slight breeze. Only 5-degrees at 7:45 a.m. but that changed quickly. Unfortunately there was little bird migration action at the park. Not only didn't I encounter any new warblers, bunt there were none of the previous warblers in sight, only a few kinglets (both species) and the RC were singing. Today was also the first morning that I heard a winter wren singing. Saw it for only a few seconds. No Fox sparrow, but the male towhee did show up along with countless numbers of White-throated sparrows, both light and dark morph. A few flickers (one was repeatedly calling from a hole at the top of a tall dead tree trunk), a few YBSSs, a couple of Hairy WPs and Downy WPs. A RTH flew over a couple of times. Also saw a Merlin and a juvenile Cooper's hawk. There were no flycatchers even though several species have been observed elsewhere, including Great crested and Least FC.
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Vociferous flicker
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Juvenile Cooper's hawk in deep shade with bright backdrop
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-w4n3rqM/0/Nd3GNjZh8JdPHpgWJsZmgR33wmpLwGj5nkVVgHcWt/M/WTS%2Cpose%2C27%2Ccropped-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-w4n3rqM/A)
One of very, very, very many WT sparrows
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-zzM3NCB/0/KpvBMFwxC9925s8FBv5Lx4Dg5LKpC9WM96XFzLJ9B/M/Towhee%2C27%2Cperched%2Ccropped-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-zzM3NCB/A)
Male Eastern towhee