Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Anonymous on May 05, 2009, 03:40:38 PM
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Good Afternoon
This morning I only birded Hanlans Point and this turned out to be enough.
While I was standing listening to singing Blackburnian and Cape May Warblers at 9:25 this morning I suddenly heard the call of a Fish Crow. I looked up in time to see the Crow right ( about 50 feet ) over my head ( I was behind a large Spruce Tree and didn't see it coming west off of the lake ). Apparently the resident Amarican Crow also heard it as it was very quick to intercept it and tell it to move on. The American Crow chased it around for about a minute then escorted it East over the Wildlife sanctuary where I lost it behind the trees. This is of course a life bird for me in the Toronto area not to mention The Islands. A nice bird on an otherwise slow morning but I did find some other decent birds and following are some of them. Watching them was like watching a Raven and an A. Crow for an approximate size difference, I said approx..
2 Green-winged Teal, 5 Canvasbacks, 3 overhead Common Loons and a Black-crowned night-Heron, Spotted Sandpipers, Caspian and Common Terns, Least Flycatcher, 7 Warbling Vireos, 7 Brown Thrashers, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Carolina Wren, 5 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, a male yellow House Finch ( yellow throat, breast and rump ), Nashville, Yellow, Cape May, Blackburnian and Palm Warblers, Ovenbird and Common Yellowthroats, White-crowned, 22 Savannah and 8 Chipping Sparrows, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Baltimore Oriole, 3 Eastern Meadowlarks and a singing male Bobolink ( almost in full breeding plummage ).