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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: stuartimmonen on February 07, 2012, 09:05:29 AM

Title: Northern Pintail, Ring-necked Duck-- Grenadier Pond 02/07/12
Post by: stuartimmonen on February 07, 2012, 09:05:29 AM

At around 8AM today, while scanning a large group of Ring-billed Gulls loafing on the (very thin) ice at the south end of Grenadier Pond in High Park, I noticed a male Northern Pintail and male Ring-necked Duck hanging around with Mallards at the pond edge. Both were within 6m of a couple of breaks in the phragmites, accessible from the walking path parallel to the Queensway:

http://g.co/maps/7d9u7 (http://g.co/maps/7d9u7)

While land birds were a little thin, there was lots of variety in the water:


Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Gadwall
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Ring-necked Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Ring-billed Gull

And also around the south end of High Park:

Rock Pigeon
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
Dark-eyed Junco
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Title: Re: Northern Pintail, Ring-necked Duck-- Grenadier Pond 02/0
Post by: stuartimmonen on February 11, 2012, 05:42:37 PM

The Ring-neck continues. I last saw the Pintail on the morning of 02/08.

Title: Re: Northern Pintail, Ring-necked Duck-- Grenadier Pond 02/0
Post by: bosh on February 13, 2012, 03:10:15 PM

I was there on the 10th and saw a Pintail in the marshy area north of Grenadier. The Ring-necked Duck and Hooded Mergansers were in the south part of the pond.