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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: AlvanBuckley on March 06, 2011, 06:27:21 PM

Title: Ashbridge's Bay - WW gulls and more migrants
Post by: AlvanBuckley on March 06, 2011, 06:27:21 PM

Hi everyone,

I managed to get down to Ashbridge's Bay this afternoon. I've never been there before so it was fun to explore a new area.

I immediately found several white-winged gulls and found them in two other places, totaling 10 WW gulls!
On my way back I heard and pursued the obvious call of a RWWB and found 2 Brown-headed Cowbirds nearby!

Anyway, here's a quick roundup:

Lakeshore Blvd & Coxwell:
2 Iceland Gulls
1 Glaucous Gull
1 probable Thayer's Gull!

Bay with these coordinates: 43.657269,-79.308865
4 Iceland Gulls, with one adult...there were probably more I can't quite remember

From the main sandy beach:
2 more Iceland Gulls flying by

Others:
~15 Common Redpolls.
1 Canvasback
2 Brown-headed Cowbirds
6 Red-winged Blackbirds

good birding,
Alvan

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Post by: Andreas Jonsson on March 06, 2011, 06:34:12 PM

Nice, do you have any pics of the gulls?

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Post by: AlvanBuckley on March 06, 2011, 06:52:34 PM

Sure do. I'll post some of them later this evening on my blog.

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Post by: Andreas Jonsson on March 07, 2011, 06:33:24 PM

Great. Looking forward to seeing them!

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Post by: Niloc on March 07, 2011, 07:48:02 PM

Interesting as I was there on Sunday and photographed a Crow on the ice battling some gulls for something and I noticed the gull was not the regular color pattern...so please post your pics..