Today Ian and I birded the Leslie Street spit for our first gloveless day this season. Despite the clouds it turned out to be a pleasant outing high lighted by Ian finding a female King Eider on the lake close beside The Lighthouse.
Other birds of note were 17 Red-necked Grebes, both Scaup, Surf and White-winged Scoters, all 3 Mergansers, Glaucous, Iceland and Thayer's Gulls, Northern Shrike, Golden-crowned Kinglets, a flock of 13 Horned Larks, Hoary Redpoll, 200+ Common Redpolls, 30+ American Tree Sparrows and through out we saw or heard 13 Red-winged Blackbirds.
There is huge increase in the number of Ring-billed Gulls at and beside Peninsulas A and B ( Thousands ). Gadwall and Mallards have also increased and we spotted 3 American Crows flying east.
If you want to see displaying Waterfowl then you can observe Common Goldeneye, Bufflehead, Long-tailed Duck, and Common and Red-breasted Mergansers all doing their display movements and sounds.
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LESLIE STREET SPIT (TOMMY THOMPSON PARK) IN TORONTO - Now on it
