Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Anonymous on May 11, 2009, 06:36:39 PM
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Good evening
Today on a nice sunny and warm but slow migration day down on the Toronto Islands Margaret Liubavicius and I came up with some nice birds and following as usual are some of the ones we found.
8 Canvasbacks, Hooded Merganser, Cooper's Hawks, Chimney Swifts, Belted Kingfisher, Great Crested Flycatchers, Eastern Kingbirds, Blue-headed and Warbling Vireos, 3 Eastern Bluebirds on Hanlans, Veerys, Swainson's, Hermit and Wood Thrushes, Gray Catbirds, Brown Thrashers, House Wrens, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Purple Martin, Cliff , Barn, Tree, and Rough-winged Swallows Swallows, Orange-crowned Warbler ( a nice male singing on Wards Island ), Nashville, Magnolia, Cape May, Black-throated blue, Black-throated Green, Blackburnian, Yellow, Black-and-white, Palm and Yellow-rumped Warblers, Savannah, Chipping, White-crowned, White-throated, and Field Sparrows, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Indigo Bunting, Baltimore and Orchard Orioles.
Blue Jays and Cedar Waxwings are now showing up in good nimbers as they pass through The Islands on the way to their nesting territories.