Indigo Buntings are Back at Riverwood
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Indigo Buntings are Back at Riverwood

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Tak

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Well, at least one adult male is so far. He was in the small trees beside the maintenance loop road, calling only a single note call repeatedly. He then moved to the sumac beside the lower parking lot.

If you go to see the buntings, please remember the maintenance loop is not intended as a pedestrian path. Staff drive in quickly and rather unexpectedly to get to the gravel, garbage cans and other materials stored in the area. Stay well off the road/grass road if you are not paying attention. One pair of birds normally nest in this area, and another pair normally nest down in the marshy area boxed in by the main paths and the river road. (There could well be others; these are just the two pairs I normally see.)

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little frank

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Where is Riverwood?

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Sorry, Riverwood Conservancy is in Mississauga. It's entrance is on Burnhamthorpe Rd, just a bit east of Erin Mills Parkway. The park runs along part of the Credit River.

It has 2 parking lots. The entrance to the lower parking lot, for which you have to go down a steep hill before parking, is located just about 3 yards in from the turn off of Burnhamthorpe, so it's easy to miss. That parking lot is used mostly by the mountain bikers and fishermen. The maintenance loop cannot be directly accessed from the lower parking lot because they chain and lock the gates although you can see into it. To walk into it, you have to walk three sides of a square. It can be accessed by walking downhill down the pathway that leaves the lower parking lot, then turning right onto the path that runs along the top of the hill, then turning right again into the grassy road that is the beginning of the maintenance loop.

I don't know if anyone who doesn't live in Mississauga should bother trying to see the Buntings at Riverwood. Of 6 visits, you usually only see them 2 times. They also seem to like to stay perched where the sun does not bring out their lovely blue. (Just a warning as some people have been disappointed in trying to get good photos.)

Riverwood is a very busy park with lots and lots of dogs, power walkers, mountain bikers, school classes (elementary has not yet cancelled field trips), etc. If you're patient, though, it offers lots of glimpses of interesting birds and animals.
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