Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: skyviewer on August 26, 2009, 09:50:24 PM
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Enniskillen is a conservation area in north Bowmanville. There is a pond/swamp there that had a great blue heron on it with about 5 green herons. There is forest all around the pond. While watching a scarlet tanager flew by. It was my first sighting of one and i could not believe how brilliant the colour was. I tried to hunt it down to get a picture but it went in to some heavy tree cover. I also heard some small birds that i have never seen or heard before. The sound was kinda like a chickadee but with a double chatter at the end. It was a darker colour. I also heard a woodpecker but could not get a glimpse of it because of the heavy bush. It sounded big though because the pecking was soo loud compared to a flicker or smaller woodpeckers pecking that i have heard. After Enniskillen i drove up to a swamp on concession road 9 and there were some wood ducks. Then further along concession road 9 just east of Grandview road there is a small pond in a farmers field that must have a 100 or so ducks on it. You could see others having difficulty trying to fly in and find a spot to land. In the same area just on the road i saw at least 6 bluebrids, multiple finches amnd some other unrecognized birds. I have been by here before and seen the bluebirds.
Skyviewer