Good evening.
Today Ian Cannell and I went up to the Kirkfield and Carden Alvar area and this was my first time up there in the fall / winter season and it was not a real birdy trip and can in no way compare with the May / June period but we did find some nice birds.
We found Common Redpolls, Pine Grosbeak, 53 Bohemian Waxwings, N. Goshawk, Rough-legged Hawk, Common Loons, Great Blue Herons, Bald Eagle, Northern Shrikes, Hooded and Red-breasted Mergansers, Common Loons, Bonaparte's Gulls, Ravens, and along the way 3 up close Deer, 1 posing Coyote and another Coyote howling in the morning.
See Wildlife In Toronto on this site about the melanistic deer seen
On our way home we found a Merlin and Red-bellied Woodpecker in Keswick and a fly by Cooper's Hawk along Yonge St. In Richmond Hill.
A cool but beautiful day to be out there and a new experience at Carden.
Directions:-
CARDEN ALVAR INCLUDING WYLIE ROAD
Wylie Road is north of Kirkfield in Victoria County and Kirkfield itself is on County Road 48 east of Highway 12 and well north of Whitby and about 130 km from Toronto if you follow the roads and not a Crow.
From the centre of Kirkfield go north on County Road 6 passing under the Lift Lock on the Trent Canal and drive about 2
