saturday, while driving down blakemanor blvd in scarborough (near markham and eglinton) we spotted a bird sitting in the middle of the road......NOT MOVING. we stopped the car, and discovered that it was a horned grebe --
http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/horne ... carborough -- imagine our surprise. it did not appear to be injured, however, if we had left it there it would surely have been run over. we wrapped the little grebe in a towel and took it down to the bluffs at the bottom of brimley. we placed it on the ground and after a couple of minutes it jumped into the water and started preening.