Good afternoon folks.
Today I started my Fall visits to the Toronto Islands and was joined by Margaret Liubavicius. There were only a few migrants down there today as migration slowly reves up.
We did find some Black-crowned night-Herons, a Solitary Sandpiper, Caspian and Common Terns *, a Black-billed Cuckoo *, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, 4 Belted Kingfishers *, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Eastern Phoebes *, Great Crested Flycatchers *, 20 eastern Kingbirds *, Tree *, Bank, Barn *, and Cliff * Swallows, Grey Catbirds *, 80+ Cedar Waxwings, 11 Warbling Vireos *, Yellow *, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Yellow-rumped, Blackburnian, Black-and-White, and Wilson's Warblers, Chipping Sparrows *, and numerous Baltimore Orioles *. There were also lots of the regular birds down there. Not a birdy trip but a beautiful day to be out and there with the promise of many migrants to come. It is uphill from here from now through October for the migration through The Islands.
* indicates suspected or confirmed breeding birds on The Islands.
A big surprise today was the finding of two singing Winter Wrens. I don't know if they have started breeding on The Islands ( a way south of traditional breeding grounds) but I was finding Winter Wren right up until I stopped in June for the Summer.
Hope to bump into some of you down there.
Norm
