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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Marek on October 24, 2006, 09:13:50 PM

Title: Humber Bay and Sam Smith
Post by: Marek on October 24, 2006, 09:13:50 PM

Hello everyone. I did some birding on my own today. Like many of you know by now I’m not an expert in this field, at least not yet. Humber Bay Park and Sam Smith Park were places of my camera shooting trip.
http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/Oct ... everything (http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/October/A_little_bit_of_everything)
http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/Oct ... n_Kestrel2 (http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/October/American_Kestrel2)
http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/Oct ... an_Kestrel (http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/October/American_Kestrel)
http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/Oct ... can_Wigeon (http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/October/American_Wigeon)
http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/October/Bufflehead (http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/October/Bufflehead)
http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/Oct ... anser2_001 (http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/October/Common_Merganser2_001)
http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/Oct ... ganser_001 (http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/October/Common_Merganser_001)
http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/Oct ... _Cormorant (http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/October/Double_Crested_Cormorant)
http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/October/Green_Heron (http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/October/Green_Heron)
http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/Oct ... rned_Grebe (http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/October/Horned_Grebe)
http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/Oct ... sser_Scaup (http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/October/Lesser_Scaup)
http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/October/Ruddy_duck2 (http://mareknaturephoto.com/Gallery/October/Ruddy_duck2)
Third picture from the bottom, is that Horned Grebe. Correct me please if i'm wrong.

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Post by: Dr. John on October 24, 2006, 10:08:45 PM

Hi Marek. I think your green heron is actually a juvenile black crowned night heron.

-John

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Post by: Jody Melanson on October 25, 2006, 09:54:44 PM

Hi Marek. Thanks for sharing your photos. I think your Common Mergansers are Red Breasted Mergansers.

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Post by: Marek on October 25, 2006, 10:31:16 PM

Thank you.
Juvenile Black Crowned Night Heron it is. The eye is red, Green Heron's eye is yellow. Like I sad, i'm not an expert. However it doesn't excuse me from buying myself a proper book.
Common or Red Brested, females look the same to me (smile).

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Post by: Brian Bailey on October 26, 2006, 07:33:35 PM

Hi Marek,

Nice shots!

I looked at some of the others too and "Common Merganser3"  (number 11 of 24) are actually Hooded Mergansers.  They are smaller and much darker than the other two species.

Was the Ruddy Duck at Sam Smith or Humber Bay?

BB

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Post by: Marek on October 28, 2006, 04:03:24 PM

Humber Bay.