Lake Aquitaine - Bufflehead, Coot, Trumpeter Swan, etc.

[Bird Brain]

Hi everyone.  I was walking around Lake Aquitaine from 11:45am - 12:45pm.  Weather:  cloudy, windy, -2c windchill, light snow.  Brrrr!   :shock: (Murphy's Law, as soon as I went home, it became sunny & blue skies).  Sighted the following:

Blue Jays x 3
Bufflehead x 1 (male)
Canada Geese
Cardinals x 3 (2m, 1f)
Common Grackle x 16+
Coot x 1 - hanging out close to the Bufflehead
Gulls, mainly Ring-billed
House Sparrows
Mallards
Mourning Doves x 2
Red-winged Blackbirds x 30+ (males and females)
Robins
Starlings x 60+
Trumpeter Swan x 1 (male), wing tagged J76.  I'm amazed he's still around at this location!

Lake Aquitaine:  SE corner of Glen Erin Dr./Aquitaine Ave., behind the Meadowvale Community Centre.

[Rotarran]

Cool.  Yeah I like the fact that now that the ice is finally melting, we see some water birds in smaller ponds and lakes as well.  In winter it's Lake Ontario or nothing.

[Bird Brain]

Hi Rotarren.  If the weather ever warms up, will wander down to Lake Wabukayne and see what's happening there.  

Last week, only the NW corner of Lake Aquitaine had open water.  

Usually see Coot at Lakefront Promenade Park.

[winz]

No Mockingbirds?  last Sunday morning around 9:30am saw one preening there.

[Bird Brain]

Hi winz.  Didn't see any Mockingbirds today but a friend of mine out walking his dog saw one recently.

[rcflier]

Hi Jo-Anne,

My friend Waverley and myself walked Aquitaine to Wabukayne and back yesterday.  Not too much activity at Wabukayne yet, was hoping for GBH or BCNH, but no luck.  Wabukayne is ice free now.  Lots of geese and mallards.  Haven't seen the bufflehead nor the coot at Aquitaine, but yes, J76 is still there.  Lot's of Cardinals at both lakes.  Oh ya, saw a male house finch along the house row near the school on the way to Wabukayne.

happy birding,

[Bird Brain]

Hi Bob.  Thank You re: your sightings in the neighbourhood!    

I can't wait until May and hopefully sighting lots of Warblers!  Also hoping for some baby hawks at Maplewood Park this year!  The adult male and female are both around.