Hello, and Riverwood + Erindale birds

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Quite a lot of migrants around today, dominated by red-eyed vireos

1 wood duck
1 great blue heron
1 cooper's, 1 sharp-shinned, 1 red-tailed hawk
1 cuckoo sp. (silhouette flyover)
6 flycatcher sp.: 1 olive-sided, 10 pewee, 2 alder (FOY), 1 least,  3 great crested, 4 kingbird (+ 3 traill's and 1 empid)
9 warbling, 4 philidelphia, 70+ red-eyed vireo
1 very very late ruby-crowned kinglet
1 veery and 4 swainson's thrush
16 warbler sp: 1 tennessee, 1 nashville, 25 yellow, 5 chestnut-sided, 10 magnolia, 1 yellow-rumped (late), 1 black-throated green, 5 blackburnian, 4 bay-breasted, 1 blackpoll, 1 black-and-white, 25 redstart, 3 mourning, 6 yellowthroat, 5 wilson's, 2 canada
14 grosbeak, 8 indigo bunting
10 baltimore oriole

[Reuven_M]

More butterflies than birds today, but did see:
1 pair of wood ducks
2 blackpoll warbler
1 male bobolink - possible breeding? Not seen a migrant this late before

[Reuven_M]

Had a few migrants on tuesday to finish off May - 2 blackpoll warbler and an alder flycatcher.

Today was notable for large numbers (for me) of swallows and swifts flying around the field  and river at Erindale, I eastimated:
10 chimney swift
6 rough-winged, 1 tree, 15 bank, 10 barn, 4 cliff swallow

Also 1 kingbird, 1 great crested flycatcher and 1 pine warbler

[Reuven_M]

Some interesting breeding birds today:

Cooper's hawk nest
1 great blue heron
2 hummingbird
pewees, kingbird and great crested flycatcher
warbling and red-eyed vireo
rough-winged, tree, barn and many cliff swallow
1 carolina and 6 house wren
1 wood thrush
yellow and pine warbler, redstart and yellowthroat
1 grosbeak and 10+ indigo bunting (very common this year)
baltimore oriole

Other sightings in the toronto wildlife section.
Nice meeting you Kathleen and Ralph (I hope I'm remembering names right)

[Reuven_M]

Well, I'm off to Algonquin for the summer today, so no more reports from mississauga. This morning I found some stuff:

1 great blue heron
2 red-tails and 4 baby cooper's in the nest (the red-tails weren't in the nest! )
spotted sandpiper and killdeer
5 swifts
1 hummingbird
great crested fly, phoebe, pewee
red-eyed and warbling vireos
cliff and barn swallows
1 carolina and 5 house wrens
1 mockingbird and many catbirds
yellow warbler, redstart and yellowthroat
chipping/song sparrow
2 grosbeaks and 12+ indigo bunting
baltimore orioles

2 garter snakes

tiger swallowtail, monarch, cabbage white, summer azure, red admiral, hobomok skipper, peck's skipper, european skipper

eastern forktail, familiar bluet (caught to identify), other bluets, dot-tailed whiteface, green darner, twelve-spotted skimmer, common whitetail

1 deer