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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Iain on April 28, 2009, 08:52:26 PM

Title: Colonel Sam Smith Monday and Tuesday
Post by: Iain on April 28, 2009, 08:52:26 PM

I birded CSS yesterday and this evening between 6 and 8pm and came up with the following highlights over the two days :

Northern Waterthrush
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Lincoln's Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Brown Thrasher
Hermit Thrush
Pine Siskin
Winter Wren
Purple Martin
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Merlin

Sora (pointed out to me by Dave)

Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe

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Post by: Brian Bailey on April 28, 2009, 09:13:50 PM

Cycling through the waterfront area of the park this evening I noticed the numbers of Red-necked Grebes and Long-tailed Ducks had dropped dramatically from just a few days ago.

BB

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Post by: mr.sharp-photo on April 30, 2009, 08:27:42 AM

we went there yesterday for the first time. its a nice park!

got a great photo of a red-tailed hawk eating a snake.
otherwise, not a lot to see other than the blue sparrows and some long-tailed ducks.