Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Tyler on March 31, 2010, 11:50:24 AM
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Oshawa Second Marsh
The Little Gulls have arrived early this year . On March 27 instead of the usual April 7th. This morning there were 4 Little Gulls and 7 Bonaparte's Gulls in the Marsh.
other species seen include Green-winged and Blue-winged Teal, Northern Shoveler, Wood Duck, Ring-necked Duck, both species of Scaup,
At Thickson's Woods there were alot of Golden-crowned Kinglets and a Cooper's Hawk
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This mornings tally
Location: Oshawa--Second Marsh/McLaughlin Bay Wildlife Reserve
Observation date: 01/04/10
Number of species: 48
Canada Goose 15
Mute Swan 22
Trumpeter Swan 2
Wood Duck 5
Gadwall 36
American Black Duck 26
Mallard 12
Northern Shoveler 3
Northern Pintail 25
Green-winged Teal 6
Ring-necked Duck 9
Greater Scaup 13
Lesser Scaup 5
Long-tailed Duck 13
Bufflehead 32
Common Goldeneye 2
Hooded Merganser 3
Common Merganser 5
Red-breasted Merganser 61
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Red-necked Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Killdeer 4
Bonaparte's Gull 2
Little Gull 1
Ring-billed Gull 25
Herring Gull 51
Iceland Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Mourning Dove 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Eastern Phoebe 2
American Crow 6
Tree Swallow 6
Black-capped Chickadee 6
Brown Creeper 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 9
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 11
European Starling 10
Fox Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 25
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 52
Common Grackle 54
Brown-headed Cowbird 15
American Goldfinch 10
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Wow! That's quite a list for April 1st.
BB
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Wow thanks for taking the time to give such a detailed report!
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Hey Tyler you don't happen to be the conservation officer who handles the bird report book at Darlington Provincial Park? I met an officer last year after seeing some nesting Indigo Buntings who was really into birding and i thought with such an informative post you might be him. Anyways thanks for the info. And you may want to add 2 Great Horned Owls to that. I was hiking through there this past week and i heard a pair calling to eachother and the crows were going crazy but i could not find either of them to make an exact ID in a dense part of the bush by the lake.
Daxton
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Yesterday afternoon, Leslie Kinrys, her hubby Mike, BIGFRANK, and I checked out Second Marsh after reading Tyler's report (above) and we were not disappointed. The haze made it a little difficult to see the waterfowl with binoculars but 2 gentlemen (sorry, didn't get your names) allowed me to see the birds through their scopes. The following is what we saw there:
Canada Goose, Mute Swan, Trumpeter Swan, Gadwall, American Wigeon, American Black Duck, Mallard, Blue-winged Teal, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal, Redhead, Ring-necked Duck, Greater Scaup, Bufflehead, Common Merganser, Red-breasted Merganser, Turkey Vulture, Red-tailed Hawk, Killdeer, Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Rock Pigeon, Mourning Dove, Belted Kingfisher, Downy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Northern Shrike, American Crow, Tree Swallow, Black-capped Chickadee, Golden-crowned Kinglet, American Robin, European Starling, Song Sparrow, Red-winged Blackbird, Common Grackle, Brown-headed Cowbird, American Goldfinch.
Walter
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I guess that the two of us stayed a little later than you did.
At a quarter to four, about twenty Bonaparte's Gulls flew in off the lake. As they wheeled around over the sandbar/island it was soon apparent that some of the Boneys had rounded wings and black underneath. We had five Little Gulls by 4:00.
Thanks again for the shrike.
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Little Gull- 9, Blue-winged Teal- 4, Green-winged Teal- 56, Northern Shoverler- 27, Ring-necked Duck- 4, Northern Pintail- 4,
Rayfield Pye