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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: thouc on March 14, 2011, 09:44:05 PM

Title: Col. Sam Smith - Mar 14
Post by: thouc on March 14, 2011, 09:44:05 PM

Nice weather and springlike with the Blackbirds vocalizing. I found my "target species", Northern Shrike, Horned and Red-necked Grebe (pretty far out) and had a very close view of a Red-tailed Hawk on one of the lamp post on the parking lot.

Full list:
10 Canada Goose  
2 Mute Swan  
10 Gadwall  
10 Mallard  
100 Long-tailed Duck  
25 Bufflehead  
10 Common Goldeneye  
2 Hooded Merganser  
5 Red-breasted Merganser  
2 Horned Grebe  
2 Red-necked Grebe  
1 Great Blue Heron  
1 Red-tailed Hawk  
100 Ring-billed Gull  
1 Herring Gull  
10 Mourning Dove  
1 Northern Shrike  
1 American Robin  
1 American Tree Sparrow  
20 Red-winged Blackbird  
1 Common Grackle

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Post by: dbellilo on March 14, 2011, 09:52:51 PM

hi there
i was there this morning
and i'd add 5 w.w. scoter to the list and also 4 horned grebe!
but i can't believe you saw a GB heron there!!!
where was the heron?

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Post by: feathered on March 14, 2011, 09:55:52 PM

Nice list! I totally missed the heron. I saw the Shrike, Red-tail, and a nice close Horned Grebe in the narrow entrance of the bay area hanging around with a Coot, but my binos are broken so I didn't bother looking too far out. The male Buffleheads were displaying just off the beach on the east side where people feed the ducks, too. :D

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Post by: Reuven_M on March 14, 2011, 10:16:30 PM

Looks like everyone was there today. I had a pretty similar list in early afternoon, but added black duck, white-winged scoter, common merganser, a few scaup, a lot more grebes (9 horned and 6 red-necked), a coot, a song sparrow and a little flock of redpolls. No hooded merg or heron.

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Post by: thouc on March 15, 2011, 10:52:49 AM

The Heron was flying over so probably not resident there.