Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Leslie Kinrys on September 17, 2006, 09:48:00 PM
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We spent the early part of the afternoon at Rosetta McLain Gardens. It was a beautiful day on the Bluffs, we just would have liked a few more birds. Thanks to Big Frank for helping us to identify raptors.
Heading back home, we stopped off at the dam at G. Ross Lord park (Finch/Dufferin), which was a good choice. Along with the Mallards and Ring-billed Gulls, there were 2 Great Egrets, 2 GBH, 1 Pied-billed Grebe, 1 Belted Kingfisher, 8 Double-crested Cormorants, 1 Spotted Sandpiper, 1 Kildeer, 3 N. Flickers, and 1 juvenile Black-crowned Night-heron. My husband noticed a swan feeding and I said it was probably a Mute. It lifted its head out of the water and I was wrong, because it was a Trumpeter! First time I've seen one at the dam. It was tagged and I took down its number to send in to the banding center.