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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: What was that? on October 25, 2009, 05:33:56 PM

Title: Reesor Road area
Post by: What was that? on October 25, 2009, 05:33:56 PM

Upper Reesor Pond
Can Geese / Mallards / Gadwalls / Yellowlegs / American Coot / Ring bill gulls / Redtailed hawks flying over

Lower Reesor Pond
Can Geese / Pied Billed Grebe / many, many white throated sparrows

Zoo (of all places)
Dark eyed Junco
Red tailed hawk (best viewing I have ever had, flew off a couple of times, but stayed behind shop nearest entrance so kept finding it again)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39167841@N06/4044272602/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/39167841@N06/4044272602/)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39167841@N06/4044267960/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/39167841@N06/4044267960/)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39167841@N06/4043518779/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/39167841@N06/4043518779/)
(Not as good as JTF's pictures but it gives me something to aim for (pun intended)).

Graham

Title: Ref: RTH
Post by: JTF on October 25, 2009, 07:25:23 PM

Great looking images. Not often you can get a pic of a RTH on the ground, good work.

Title: Reesor road today...
Post by: bernie2112 on October 25, 2009, 10:28:17 PM

To add to this report we saw:

A family of five Cackling Geese (thanks to Stan Long for pointing them out) at uppper Reesor.

At the lower Reesor pond we saw a pair of Fox Sparrows and a Swamp Sparrow along with the Grebe and the geese. There was also a pair of Ravens (croaking rather than cawing) flying overhead.

Cheers,

Bernie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/berniemonette (http://www.flickr.com/photos/berniemonette)

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Post by: Bird Brain on October 25, 2009, 11:34:54 PM

Graham ... I especially enjoyed your first photo.

Jo-Anne  :)

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Post by: What was that? on October 26, 2009, 05:15:28 PM

Thanks for your kind comments BB and JTF. Your work is one of my targets JTF. Soon, soon (hideous cackle - seasonally referenced).

Bernie - cackling geese - new to me, so I checked on the web, for those interested
http://www.sibleyguides.com/canada_cackling.htm (http://www.sibleyguides.com/canada_cackling.htm)
Something for me to look out for. Thanks for the update.
Graham

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Post by: Lee on October 29, 2009, 04:50:20 PM

Beautiful shots of the RTH!