Leslie Street Spit, Toronto - May 15th

[Bluffs Birder]

Complete list of what we saw:

Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Trumpeter Swan
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Canvasback
Long-tailed Duck
Red-breasted Merganser
Common Loon
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Osprey
American Kestrel
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Veery
Swainson’s Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Canada Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Walter

[nkwali]

On the spit on Sunday (short walk around the lower ponds):

chipping sparrow
white-crowned sparrow
mute swan
common tern
least sandpiper
killdeer
gadwall
mallard
long tailed ducks
barn swallow
tree swallow
red-winged blackbird
muskrat


And a question
Where did you see the blue-winged teal - I've been looking for the past several years to spot one of these - no luck so far.

[Cody]

Impressive! 89 Species.   Will you be coming on the OFO trip on May 29th :?:

[Bluffs Birder]

Hi nkwali,

Welcome to the forum.

The lone male Blue-winged Teal was in the Triangle Pond which is out beyond the red bridge about halfway to the lighthouse.  It flew after I tried my best not to spook it as I walked down the small path that leads to the pond.


Hi Cody,

It was actually 90 species, I forgot the Northern Mockingbird that was just outside of the park's entrance.  

No, I won't be out for the OFO trip.  Good luck if you go.

Walter

[Greg Schneider]

Interesting to see those ducks hanging around. Would some of them breed there? I did hear that canvasback have bred there before.