Spent some time today birding the lakeshore in Burlington from the foot of Waterdown to the foot of walker's line.
Highlights:
La Salle Marina
5 black duck/ mallard hybrids among the hordes of mallards and black ducks
9 canvasback (my first since march)
~30 redhead
hundreds of greater scaup (strangely, I couldn't find a single lesser here or anywhere else today)
~40 white-winged scoter
1 hooded, 3 common and 6 red-breasted merganser
7 ruddy duck
7 coots
other normal waterbirds (trumpeter/mute swans, canada geese, mallards, black ducks, goldeneye, bufflehead, herring and ring-billed gulls). No long-tailed duck or gadwall was a bit surprising
landbirds:
A hawk that was either a rough-leg or a strangely dark juv. red-tail (I couldn't see it properly through the trees)
1 kingfisher
1 brown creeper
1 carolina wren
2 song sparrow
Bayshore Park
This is just east of burlington golf course
11 ring-necked duck (first since march)
more red-breasted mergs, goldeneye, bufflehead, black ducks etc.
Behind the travelodge
~20 long-tailed duck
~1000 ducks flying far out on the lake
At the foot of Green st.
First 5 gadwalls for the day, and a lot of goldeneye
1 robin
At the foot of Guelph Line
More gadwalls, red-breasted mergansers, goldeneye and bufflehead.
Sioux Lookout Park
1 extremely tame domestic goose
2 trumpeter swan
canada geese, mute swans, black duck, mallards, scaup, bufflehead, goldeneye, red-breasted mergs
Also 1 kestrel and 3 red-tails on the QEW home
18 waterfowl and 37 species in all.
