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Birding Reports => Migration Movements => Topic started by: jackbreakfast on October 19, 2011, 01:58:19 PM

Title: pine siskins?
Post by: jackbreakfast on October 19, 2011, 01:58:19 PM

I wonder if anyone has noticed any pine siskins around Toronto lately? En route to the Humber Bay Parks yesterday, I saw a few. Let me say that I'm 90% sure I saw them, anyhow...afterwards I saw a great many y.r. warblers (who look fairly similar to the p. siskins this time of year) but I will tell you that the first batch of birds had no white eye rings nor white wing bars. Yes indeed, I am 90% certain. Of course I have no pictures to prove it...
Anyhow, I wonder if anyone else has noticed any pine siskins around lately?

Title: Re: pine siskins?
Post by: RKD on October 19, 2011, 09:22:12 PM

No Pine Siskens yet but seen a few Junkos yesterday and today at our feeders. Winter is indeed coming

Title: Re: pine siskins?
Post by: Rob'in'To on October 20, 2011, 08:41:13 AM

It's doubtful many of us will see Pine Siskins in the GTA this winter.  The Winter Finch Forecast was released.  And Mr. Pittaway is pretty accurate from what I have seen of his reports the last few years since I learned about them.

http://www.ofo.ca/reportsandarticles/winterfinches.php (http://www.ofo.ca/reportsandarticles/winterfinches.php)