Adventures at Lake Aquitaine

[Bird Brain]

Hi everyone.  I was at Lake Aquitaine this morning between 7:30-7:45am then again from 9:00-9:15am.  Sighted the following:

American Coot x 1 ... swimming around then all of a sudden reared up and ran across the water really quickly, looked like bionic legs.  Hilarious!   :lol:

Belted Kingfisher - could hear him or her then sighted flying towards Lake Wabukayne.
Black-capped Chickadees
Bufflehead x 2 (1m, 1f)
Canada Geese
Downy Woodpeckers x 3 (females)
Grackles
gulls (mainly Ring-billed)
House Sparrows
Juncos
Mallards
Mourning Doves
Red-breasted Nuthatches
Red-tailed Hawk circling above lake
Red-winged Blackbirds
Robins
Song Sparrows
Starlings

Trumpeter Swans x 2 - wing tagged 038 and K09.   J76 has left the lake and headed elsewhere a few days ago.  Wow, 3 Trumpeter Swans at the lake this month - amazing and thrilling!  

Have been sighting Great Blue Herons and Turkey Vultures flying by lately as well.

Out of the corner of my eye, could tell that something was walking directly behind me - just figured it was a squirrel or cat - turned to look ... HUGE Opossum, one of the biggest ones I've ever seen!  

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

[rcflier]

Trumpeter 038 has been hanging around the mouth of the Credit River most of the (late) winter/early spring.  She was also here last winter, and I reported her number last year. Got a report back about her.  A Trumpeter family at Aquitaine would be exciting.

[Bird Brain]

Hi Bob.  This is great information to know!  Explains why she was "talking" a lot this morning.  haha   :lol: