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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: adonbirder on March 25, 2011, 03:00:10 PM

Title: Lapland Longspurs etc at Burloak Drive, Oakville
Post by: adonbirder on March 25, 2011, 03:00:10 PM

Hi, there is still a big mixed flock of over a hundred birds in the muddy field east of where Burloak Drive and Great Lakes Blvd meet, many are Lapland longspurs in breeding plumage, also Snow Buntings and Horned Larks. Can park at Shell Station at Rebecca Street and Great Lakes Blvd and walk north on Great Lakes and scope the big muddy field to the east, should see them flying around, are very flighty.

Andrew


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Post by: Rob'in'To on March 25, 2011, 07:30:35 PM

Is this the muddy field across from that mall and I think a Galaxy movie theatre?

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Post by: adonbirder on March 25, 2011, 10:41:53 PM

no further down Burloak Drive, is the big field on the left where Burloak meets Great Lakes Drive, just north of Rebecca Street

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Post by: stvgarrett on March 26, 2011, 05:13:38 PM

thanks for that posting, I took a drive out to Burloak today, bumped into a couple of other birders and we saw all three species, although I didn't count a hundred - closer to fifty. Here's where we saw the Snow Buntings and Lapland Longspurs: http://goo.gl/maps/bwNA (http://goo.gl/maps/bwNA) (look for the green arrow on the map). They let us get nice and close, we had some great views.
The Horned Larks were bombing around in the same field, apparently picking fights with each other. Also flushed a couple of Killdeers across the road. We just parked on the west side of Great Lakes Blvd. and crossed the road at the lights.

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Post by: adonbirder on March 26, 2011, 10:39:50 PM

glad you got to see them, that's the field, but the flock split up and moved around alot on the friday, you could have easily missed some, some were hanging way at the end of the muddy field.
Hope was a little better for today, friday my boots got just covered in mud :)

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Post by: stvgarrett on March 27, 2011, 01:36:02 PM

You are right, the birds are pretty mobile, and they probably will be in a different part of the field today. There's no way you are going to see those birds without hauling a few pounds of mud back to your car, that's for sure! :)