Though migration has been slow due to the not so great wind directions all week but there were still some new arrivals down there but the warmer weather and hopefully better winds should change all that in the coming week.
Following are some of the birds found this week ( in no special order ). Today, Saturday was quite birdie on the Wards end of the Islands.
High light for me today were the 47 Fox Sparrows.
Common Loons, Horned Grebes, Canvasbacks, Ring-necked and Wood Ducks, all 3 Mergansers, many Bufflehead, many Sapsuckers and Flickers, a male Pileated Woodpecker on Snake Island on Thursday ( a rare visitor to The Islands ), both Kinglets, Carolina and Winter Wrens, Purple and House Finches, Tree and Barn Swallows, Tree, Savannah, Fox, Chipping, Field, White-throated, Swamp and Song Sparrows ( 75+ ), many Juncos, Eastern Towhees, Peregrine Falcon, N. Harrier, many E. Phoebes, Short-eared Owl, Glaucous Gull, Caspian Tern, many Hermit Thrushes, 17 Cardinals on Thursday ( average is 10 down there ), Downy Woodpeckers are common and we did find a pair of Hairy Woodpeckers, Brown Creepers, Yellow-rumped Warblers, etc., etc. I probably forgot some of the sightings.
Thanks Ian Cannell and Margaret Liubavicius for the good company and the good sightings.
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TORONTO ISLANDS ( Ward
