Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Anonymous on November 22, 2008, 05:49:56 PM
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Good evening folks
Today Ian Cannell, Alfred Adamo, Ed O'Conner, Margaret Liubavicius and myself again teamed up to bird the Leslie Street Spit and besides the 2 King Eiders ( first winter male and female, close to shore, scope not required ) and 4 Purple Sandpipers at Pipit Point we also came up with a 2 Red-throated Loons, Red-necked Grebe, Great Blue Heron, the usual selection of ducks including American Wigeon, many Common Goldeneye and all 3 Merganser species, a 1st winter Lesser Black-backed Gull, Northern Shrike, American Pipit, and Lapland Longspur.
Good luck if you venture out there tomorrow.
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Saw a report on this eve news (Global) regarding a Snowy Owl that was release on the spit today after being rescued from someone's basement. I also heard a member of the spit staff collected a dead Snowy today also.. not sure if this was the same one or not.. tragic regardless.
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it was not the same one...we were lucky enough to see the released snowy owl perched atop some poles not too far from the gate, about an hour after released. It stayed there for a few of us so that we could view it without disturbing it.
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It sure was a good day out there, can also add Northern Harrier and Snow Buntings to the list.
The Lapland longspur walked right by our feet on the road!
Thanks for the tip on the purple sandpipers, sure were neat to watch and very plump birds.
I have put some photos of these birds and more in the bird photo section
Also we stopped by Humber Bay Park and saw female Harlequin duck in close and in nonbirds a mink on a rock
also updated my webpage at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrew-don/
See you all out birding
Andrew