Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Anonymous on September 30, 2008, 07:41:44 AM
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Good morning
Sorry for the late posting but I did not arrive home on The Hill until very late due leaving The Islands late and to the VIVA bus strike which is a pain in the butt (oops, sorry ).
Yesterday morning Ian Cannell, Margaret Liubavicius and I went down to The Islands with high hopes for at least some good birds and we sure were not disappointed. What a day even with the total cloud cover overhead.
We started out at Hanlans Point this time and it was very birdie but the best birds in the morning were 2 Sedge Wrens and an amazing 5 N. Sharp-tailed Sparrows. These Sparrows were all well seen and in fact at one time as Ian was behind us looking at 1 of them Margaret and I had a stellar look at one 15 feet away and when it flew off to the left almost immediately another one came in from the right and sat in almost the same place. One of the Sedge Wrens posed for 5 minutes less than 25 feet in front of Margaret and I.
From these great sightings it was not down hill from there as we continued our birding and below are some of the birds we found.
- Common Loon, Gadwalls, a low soaring 2nd year Bald Eagle ( we had to duck :>)) ), hunting Cooper's Hawks, migrating A. Kestrels, a feeding Merlin and an overhead Peregrine Falcon, B. Kingfishers, 67 Y-B Sapsuckers, 26 N. Flickers, 23 E. Phoebes, R-B Nuthatches, 11 Brown Creepers, an unexpected 5 Carolina Wrens, 10 Winter Wrens, 100's of R-C Kinglets and many G-C Kinglets, Veery, 27 Swainson's Thrushes, 17 Gray Catbirds, American Pipit, Blue-headed, Philadelphia and Red-eyed Vireos, 2 Orange-crowned Warblers, as well as 10 more species of Warblers including 109 Palm Warblers, Chipping, many Song, Field, Savannah, Many White-throated, and a few White-crowned Sparrows and Dark-eyed Juncos.
For those who care there are still lots of Butterflies down there.
Weather does not look too promising for the next couple of days but this is the time for surprises on The Islands.