Good Day.
Today I joined Gunner Bessell to bird the Toronto Islands. WE started at the Hanlans Point end and this was where the bulk of the birds were as well as another large group on Gibralter point opposite the Trout Pond.
Our best bird of the day in our opinion was way along on Wards Island in the allotment garden beside the seniors building about 200 yards southeast of the Wards Island ferry docks. Here we found a late male Indigo Bunting that was fading into winter plumage but still had plenty of blue feathers. A nice surprise to end our day.
Some of the other birds that we encountered on our walk were Pied-billed Grebe, Wood Ducks, A. Black Ducks, Canvasbacks, Greater Scaup, 27 Hooded Mergansers together, Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawks hunting, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, N. Flickers, Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers, E. Phoebes, 50+ Black-capped Chickadees, White-breasted Nuthatches, Brown Creepers, Winter Wrens, both Kinglets, Gray-cheeked, Swainson's and Hermit Thrushes, Gray Catbirds, A. Pipit, Nashville Warblers, many Yellow-rumped Warblers, Palm Warblers, Eastern Towhees, Chipping, Savannah, Swamp and Lincoln's Sparrows, many White-throated, White-crowned Sparrows and Dark-eyed Juncos. Eastern Meadowlarks and Rusty Blackbirds.
Another birdie day on the under birded Islands.
