East Point Park Bird Sanctuary, Scarborough

[Walter Fisher]

This morning a group of birders gathered to enjoy this newly developed and named park.

East Point Park Bird Sanctuary
April 16, 2015
7:30am - 11:30am

Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Scaup sp
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Red-breasted Merganser
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Iceland Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe
American Crow
Common Raven
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Carolina Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Eastern Towhee
American Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
American Goldfinch

As more birder's become aware of this park, I'm sure it will quickly become as popular as the Leslie Street Spit's Wet Woods.

East Point Park Bird Sanctuary is located south of Lawrence Ave East in Toronto's east end.  The parking lot is located at the bottom of Beechgrove Drive.  Further information about the park can be found here, here and here.

Happy Birding!
Walter

[Rotarran]

Cool, thanks for letting us know about this nice new park.  I look forward to checking it out!

[Brown-headed Birder]

Great list Walter.  We also had a Swamp Sparrow that two people Identified from some repeated calls just before we got back to the last little wooded alcove before the parking lot.  Just FYI, this is an isolated area so I wouldn't recommend women go there alone.  A good spot for two or more regardless of gender.

 :lol:

[Warbler Boy]

My wife and I were there yesterday too, for the first time. Looks like it has great warbler potential. Hopefully it will not get ruined by dog walkers unleashed dogs.


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[winz]

My wife and I were there yesterday too, for the first time. Looks like it has great warbler potential. Hopefully it will not get ruined by dog walkers unleashed dogs.


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I was out in Newport Beach CA at the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary and it's off limits to dogs and bikes.  maybe they should consider that.

[Warbler Boy]

Agreed! One of the reasons I like Tommy Thompson Park so much.  No one pays attention to "dogs must be on leash" signs.


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[Walter Fisher]

Another nice walk around East Point Park this morning got myself and 2 other birders a list of 46 species including 3 Eastern Kingbirds which flew over the park but did not land.

Walter