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Rosetta McClain Gardens

Whittam

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A great day birding at Rosetta McClain today.  51 Species total.  2500+ Blue Jays migrating along the bluffs.  There seemed to be no end to them!  Here is a copy of today's list on eBird!

Scarborough--Rosetta McClain Gardens, Toronto, CA-ON
May 3, 2012 7:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments:     Migration really picking up.  1000s of Blue Jays migrating east!  Warblers coming!
55 species

Canada Goose  4
Trumpeter Swan  2
Long-tailed Duck  6     3 pairs seen off the bluffs
Red-breasted Merganser  8     Seen in Lake Ontario just off shore!
Common Loon  1
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Great Blue Heron  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Cooper's Hawk  1
Ring-billed Gull  10
Rock Pigeon  6
Mourning Dove  1
Eastern Screech-Owl  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Northern Flicker  2
Least Flycatcher  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  2
Eastern Kingbird  1
Blue-headed Vireo  1
Warbling Vireo  1
Blue Jay  2500     Possibly many more than 2500 as they just kept coming along the bluffs!
American Crow  2
Bank Swallow  60
Barn Swallow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  3
Carolina Wren  1
House Wren  2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  8
Hermit Thrush  1
American Robin  6
Gray Catbird  2
European Starling  6
Ovenbird  1
Black-and-white Warbler  6
Nashville Warbler  2
Blackburnian Warbler  4
Yellow Warbler  2
Chestnut-sided Warbler  3
Palm Warbler  6
Yellow-rumped Warbler  10
Black-throated Green Warbler  2
Chipping Sparrow  1
Clay-colored Sparrow  4     Heard and seen multiple Clay coloured sparrows...  "buzz buzz buzz"
Song Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  12
White-crowned Sparrow  4
Northern Cardinal  4
Red-winged Blackbird  6
Common Grackle  4
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
Baltimore Oriole  4
Purple Finch  1
American Goldfinch  4
House Sparrow  2

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

Cheers Terry
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Wow, we did alright, what a great day to be out.  After RMG, I ventured over to Chine Meadow (Bluffer's Park) to see much of the same but also added the following that were different:

Red-tailed Hawk  1
Killdeer  2
Chimney Swift  23
Northern Mockingbird  1
Brown Thrasher  2

Walter
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