Queen's Park

[Matthew Strimas-Mackey]

@shorebird: I'm also fairly new to birding so I can't say exactly how long the birds stick around. I imagine it's not much longer than a few more weeks at best though. It's great there right now, you should definitely check it out. I'm in Queen's Park most week day mornings between 8-9am.

[Andreas Jonsson]

@ostrich: The Red-tails used to nest on the roof of the parliament building (south-west corner), but I don't know about this year.

@shorebird: The warbler migration is quite short. After the first week of June it will mostly be over.

These are data from ebird.com for Toronto (the green bars indicate that the species has been observed):

[Andreas Jonsson]

I had an Eastern Peewee in the park at lunchtime.

[shorebird]

I think I heard a winter wren's song in the Park these couple of days, if I'm not mistaken.

[Matthew Strimas-Mackey]

I only had about 15 minutes in the park this morning. There's certainly less action than last week, but there's still a few migrants to be seen:

1    Eastern Wood-Pewee
1    Warbling Vireo
2    Red-eyed Vireo
1     Veery
1    Swainson's Thrush
1    Chestnut-sided Warbler
5    Magnolia Warbler
2    American Redstart
1    Ovenbird
3    Baltimore Oriole

[BC]

I was there about an hour and a half later and things had picked up though I missed a few of your birds. I had several personal firsts for Queen's Park. Many of these birds were singing. A lot of Canadas, Tennessees and Blackpolls came through Pelee when I was there on the weekend so it was nice of them to stop in Toronto.

• Black-throated Green Warbler
• Tennessee Warbler - singing helpfully
• Blackburnian Warbler
• Blackpoll Warbler
• American Redstart
• Canada Warbler
• Magnolia Warbler
• Blue-headed Vireo
• Warbling Vireo
• Red-eyed Vireo
• Least Flycatcher
• Eastern Wood-Pewee
• Hermit Thrush
• Swainson's Thrush
• Baltimore Oriole
• American Goldfinch
• Chimney Swift

[Matthew Strimas-Mackey]

Nice list. I guess I wasn't looking hard enough. I'm going to try to get out for longer tomorrow morning.

[BC]

A lot of the warblers were in the N/E corner between the war memorial and the traffic light. They were up pretty high.

[Matthew Strimas-Mackey]

Most of the action was on the west side of the park this morning.

3    Warbling Vireo
1    Red-eyed Vireo
4    Swainson's Thrush
1    Nashville Warbler
1    Chestnut-sided Warbler
6    Magnolia Warbler
2    American Redstart
1    Common Yellowthroat
4    Canada Warbler
1      Unidentified Empidonax flycatcher

Also, the squirrels were going crazy this morning: running around, chasing eachother, chattering non-stop. Much more than normal. I saw one squirrel fall at least 15 metres onto the hard pavement and run away unscathed.