Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Reuven_M on November 20, 2010, 12:44:57 PM
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I spent 1.5 hours at Colonel Sam Smith this morning. Highlights were a harrier flying west out over the lake, a northern shrike, and great looks at a raft of about 320 greater scaup, which also contained 1 lesser scaup and 1 redhead
In total I saw:
40 Canada Goose
24 Mute Swan
90 Gadwall
110 Mallard
1 Redhead
320 Greater Scaup
1 Lesser Scaup
3 Long-tailed Duck
60 Bufflehead
80 Common Goldeneye
20 Red-breasted Merganser
20 Red-necked Grebe
1 Northern Harrier
20 Ring-billed Gull
5 Herring Gull
1 Northern Shrike
2 Black-capped Chickadee
2 Golden-crowned Kinglet
6 American Tree Sparrow
5 American Goldfinch
10 House Sparrow
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The shrike (http://outdoorontario.net/birds/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=27334#27334) was still present late in the afternoon. Most of ducks were well off the east side. They would have been more easily viewed from Rotary Park (the small headland a couple of blocks east).
The harbour area was so deserted that I suspected the presence of an owl, but despite much searching I couldn't find one.
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The harbour was deserted because there were people all over the docks when I was there and moving around in a raft thing.
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No sign of the shrike when I visited late this afternoon, but I found an American Pipit at the southern headland (the hill with the pole).
Also seen: a late migrant Red-tailed Hawk which flew west, and a Kestrel perched on the filtration plant.
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