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Ontario Birds / May 11th
« Last post by Shortsighted on Today at 02:37:54 PM »
Brilliant, crisp Mothers' Day morning.  Still cool at 7 a.m. but warblers are still feeding.  Sightings include:  Am. Redstart,  Northern Parula,  Black-throated blue,  Black-throated green,  B&W,  Cape May,  Myrtle,  Palm,  Nashville,  RC kinglets,  Veery,  E. phoebe,  Flicker,  Red-bellied WP,  and White-crowned sparrows. 



Eastern phoebe


Veery


Cape May warbler singing


Nashville warbler


Black & White warbler


Northern Parula


Black-throated Green warbler


Northern Parula


Black-throated Green warbler






Black-throated Blue warbler
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Southern Ontario Wildlife / New born Bunnies/Hare/Rabbits, front yard, Milton
« Last post by Napper on May 10, 2025, 06:26:59 PM »
Someone was kind enough to plant all of these beautiful yellow flowers, my wife intent on green has been working daily to remove them. Yesterday in front yard while on task she spotted movement in the grass and discovered new born rabbits just below ground level under the grass. This is directly in the middle of our front lawn.
Our dog spends hours out there on leash and hasn't bothered them. No sign of mama rabbit.
This is a first for us
Napper :o
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Anything Goes / Re: Bloor-Yorkville Annual Spring Flower Show: Yay, Okay or Nah?
« Last post by Shortsighted on May 10, 2025, 02:26:31 PM »
What an incredible amount of work and artistic vision.  Must have taken 100's of people to pull all this off.  You have some rather brilliant angles and perspectives, especially among the stills.  The collaboration of stills and video really works here.  I love the shop window with the sculpt of floral bells, while devoid of colour, they have the floral form as metaphor.  Perspicacious of you to have noticed it and wise to include it ... most would have overlooked it for something more colourful and flashy, yet the simplicity of floral form sans colour interrupts the deluge of colour implicit in the subject material.  My eyes like that.  I wondered why you didn't open with the hand & butterfly and then pan out, but you didn't miss it and panned into it.  This concept certainly confounds the notion that the inner city is sterile and sometimes brutal.  A really welcoming interlude.
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Ontario Birds / May 10th - trickling through
« Last post by Shortsighted on May 10, 2025, 02:09:34 PM »
The morning was sun & cloud, 8 - 11 degrees.  Between 7 o'clock and 9:30 there was some modest warbler activity near the bluffs.  I didn't stay long.









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Ontario Birds / Re: May 8th -- Bluffs were a bird super highway
« Last post by Charline on May 10, 2025, 11:33:06 AM »
Great catches!
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Anything Goes / Bloor-Yorkville Annual Spring Flower Show: Yay, Okay or Nah?
« Last post by Charline on May 10, 2025, 09:35:27 AM »
Fleurs de Villes in Bloor-Yorkville is where flowers meet fashion. in the spring of 2025. Right in the heart of Toronto, the luxury and trendy neighborhood is transformed by blooms. Floral art lines the streets. Designers and florists turn petals into couture. Every display tells a story. Every corner feels like spring. Let’s explore the magic together.

https://youtu.be/XxxVQcXJmp4
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Toronto Wildlife / Re: Squirrel Tales: Cinnamon Morphs, Firework Tails & Red Rascals!
« Last post by Charline on May 10, 2025, 12:20:22 AM »
Quote from: Shortsighted on May 09, 2025, 01:03:32 PM
Hair dye and ... contacts?


Been there, done that?  ;)
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Ontario Birds / May 9th - Highway closure
« Last post by Shortsighted on May 09, 2025, 01:18:59 PM »
No bird super highway along the bluffs today ... just a kinglet and one Blue-headed vireo.  Away from the bluff was also quiet.  I relocated farther north to see where the warblers all went.  Always been a sucker for flycatchers ... don't know why, so seeing a Great crested flycatcher this morning (again) I was primed to work the area.  Also saw FOY kingbird, but no photo.  Warblers were only Myrtle, Palm and N. parula.  Thought that I spotted a Tennessee warbler but turned out to be a FOY Red-eyed vireo.



Off the brink of the bluffs ... far away and below me ... Blue-headed vireo

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Cedar waxwing


Eastern phoebe


Northern Parula



Great crested flycatcher (in the shade).


Arnold, the oriole.  A fellow was putting out seed for a grosbeak and I suggested a half of an orange to attract an oriole but on repeated visits I noticed he didn't take my advise ... no one ever does.  I sometimes have a half orange in a zip-lock bag and put it on a log and then return later.Hit and miss, really.  I love those hits.
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Toronto Wildlife / Re: Squirrel Tales: Cinnamon Morphs, Firework Tails & Red Rascals!
« Last post by Shortsighted on May 09, 2025, 01:03:32 PM »
Hair dye and ... contacts?
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Toronto Wildlife / Re: Squirrel Tales: Cinnamon Morphs, Firework Tails & Red Rascals!
« Last post by Charline on May 09, 2025, 12:25:57 PM »

I initially thought Cinnmon's partial blue eye was a cataract. But it seems that Cinnamon can still see with that eye. Now I am not sure what it is. Maybe it was just a partial blue eye?
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