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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Anonymous on April 18, 2009, 05:22:06 PM

Title: Toronto Island Migration this past week
Post by: Anonymous on April 18, 2009, 05:22:06 PM

Though migration has been slow due to the not so great wind directions all week but there were still some new arrivals down there but the warmer weather and hopefully better winds should change all that in the coming week.
 
  Following are some of the birds found this week ( in no special order ). Today, Saturday was quite birdie on the Wards end of the Islands.

 High light for me today were the 47 Fox Sparrows.

 Common Loons, Horned Grebes, Canvasbacks, Ring-necked and Wood Ducks, all 3 Mergansers, many Bufflehead, many Sapsuckers and Flickers, a male Pileated Woodpecker on Snake Island on Thursday ( a rare visitor to The Islands ), both Kinglets, Carolina and Winter Wrens, Purple and House Finches, Tree and Barn Swallows, Tree, Savannah, Fox, Chipping, Field, White-throated, Swamp and Song Sparrows ( 75+ ), many Juncos, Eastern Towhees, Peregrine Falcon, N. Harrier, many E. Phoebes, Short-eared Owl, Glaucous Gull, Caspian Tern, many Hermit Thrushes, 17 Cardinals on Thursday ( average is 10 down there ), Downy Woodpeckers are common and we did find a pair of Hairy Woodpeckers, Brown Creepers, Yellow-rumped Warblers, etc., etc.  I probably forgot some of the sightings.

 Thanks Ian Cannell and Margaret Liubavicius for the good company and the good sightings.

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TORONTO ISLANDS ( Ward

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Post by: Al McGiven on April 18, 2009, 06:53:41 PM

Norm, where abouts are the Carolina wren and the Towees? They would both be lifers for me (I've only been in Toronto 6 months).

Title: Norm's Adventures
Post by: norman on April 21, 2009, 09:27:31 PM

Thanks for the Islands update, Norm. I honestly couldn't keep up with you -- you really cover a lot of ground when you set out.

I look forward to your next High Park report -- I hope to get down there on the weekend.

All the best,

--nb