Tufted Titmouse Toronto Islands

[Mathieu Siol]

Hi all,

I spent some time birding on the Toronto Islands. The activity was pretty slow but I managed to see the following:

-Pied-billed Grebe  1
-Double-crested Cormorant
-Great Blue Heron 1
-Mute Swan
-Canada Goose
-Mallard
-Gadwall
-American Kestrel
-Ring-billed Gull
-Chimney Swift  3
-Downy Woodpecker 1
-Northern Flicker  10
-Willow/Alder Flycatcher  1
-Red-eyed Vireo  1
-Blue Jay
-TUFTED TITMOUSE  1 near Hanlan's point
-Black-capped Chickadee
-White-breasted Nuthatch   heard only
-Brown Creeper  3
-Winter Wren   1
-Ruby-crowned Kinglet   5
-American Robin
-Swainson's Thrush   6
-Gray Catbird  7
-Cedar Waxwing
-Chestnut-sided Warbler  5
-Magnolia Warbler  3
-Blackburnian Warbler  2
-Yellow-rumped Warbler   3
-Black-throated Green Warbler  1
-Palm Warbler  2
-Bay-breasted Warbler 1
-Blackpoll Warbler  1
-Mourning Warbler 1
-Wilson's Warbler  1
-Scarlet Tanager 1
-Northern Cardinal
-White-throated Sparrow


Good birding

Mathieu

[Andreas Jonsson]

Hi Mathieu, that's a very nice bird, the Tufted titmouse I mean. Congratulations! Do you have more detailed directions. People, me included, could be interested in looking for it tomorrow. Thanks.

[Mathieu Siol]

Hi Andreas,

actually I only saw the birs for a minute or so. I will try to explain where I saw it. From Hanlan's Point dock follow the road for 200-250m. The bird was flew from the left and perched in a tall tree on the left side of the road (the tree was a big one with sort of flaky bark and silvery leaves, and the closest to the road at that point). The tree was approximately 50-80m before the first washroom building (the red brick one on the left). However, I was trying to put my son to sleep in the stroller, and lost sight of the bird pretty quickly, but this was the general area in which it was...

Hope you'll find it tomorrow if you go.

Good luck


Mathieu