Hello, and Riverwood + Erindale birds

[birderinontario]

Wow you are really a thorough bird watcher. I made some notes this morning based on what I could remember (no pen, just memory). I saw:
A Carolina
2 house wrens
A few warblers
Tons of geese
Hummingbirds

[Reuven_M]

Thanks.
Today before the rain:
2 red-tails
2 white-breasted nuthatch
7 golden and 1 ruby-crowned kinglet
1 tree, 4 song, 2 white-throated, 1 white-crowned and 5 juncos

[Reuven_M]

A rather good day afternoon considering the late date. The highlight was 20 red-tails and 3 unid'd buteos in ten minutes from 4:30-4:40.
1 great blue heron
1 vulture, 1 cooper's, 23 red-tails and 3 buteo sp.
1 great black-backed gull
1 pileated woodpecker
about 10 golden-crowned kinglets
not 1 but 2(!) warbler sp: a palm and a yellow-rumped
6 sparrows: 16 tree, 1 chipping, 4 song, 1 swamp, 1 white-crowned and 9 juncos

[Reuven_M]

Another good day, the highlight was a flock of 9 siskins, my first since spring 2009.
4 red-tails
2 hairy woodpecker
lots of golden-crowned kinglets (~40)
a flock of 15 cedar waxwings overhead
6 sparrows: 15 tree, 1 field, 2 fox, 6 song, 8 white-throated and 20 juncos

[Reuven_M]

My post this morning apparently didn't go through so I will rewrite it:
In about in an hour this morning I saw:
1 white and 3 red-breasted nuthatch
~20 golden and 2 ruby-crowned kinglets
2 myrtle warbler
1 tree, 3 fox, 5 song, 1 swamp, 4 white-throated andd ~30 junco
6 house finch

And what I actually came to post was my hawkwatching this afternoon. I saw
51 red-tails
1 sharpie
22 buteo sp.
other flybys:
2 cormorant
2 kingfisher
a few siskins, goldfinches and house finches

[Reuven_M]

The highlight today was a pair of bluebirds giving amazing looks from every angle as they fed on top of the toboggan hill.
Not much else around:
2 red-tails
2 hairy woodpecker
1 song and ~10 junco

[Reuven_M]

Extremely quiet this afternoon at Erindale, I saw only 8 species, all common wintering birds.

[Reuven_M]

Pretty active this morning, I saw:
2 cooper's and 3 red-tailed hawks
3 downies
1 red-breasted nuthatch
1 golden-crowned kinglet
2 tree, 1 fox and ~15 junco
loads of finches, I estimated 30 each house and gold

[Reuven_M]

Since migration is essentially over, I though I’d post my totals for every species. I use ebird (http://www.ebird.ca), a very helpful tool for recording your sightings and seeing other people's, I recommend trying it. What I saw august-now at Erindale/Riverwood:

Lifers: boreal chickadee, saw-whet owl (end of October, I’d rather not say where)
New for erindale/riverwood: black-crowned nightheron, bald eagle, merlin, great black-back gull, nighthawk,  marsh wren

Almost new for erindale/riverwood: red-shoulder, broad-wing, kestrel, peregrine, olive-sided fly, northern shrike, philidelphia vireo, purple finch

Very good numbers: all raptors, swift, most flycatchers, all vireos, red-breasted nuthatch, Carolina wren, gnatcatcher, hermit thrush, waxwing, all warblers except yellow, parula, waterthush, ovenbird and missed cape may and mourning, all sparrows but savannah and missed vesper, indigo bunting, grackles and red-wings, all finches.

Numbers (sorry its a bit long, obviously many of these are at least partially estimates, and there are a lot of repeat sightings for many species, like chickadees):
Canada Goose   897
Wood Duck   9
Mallard   202
Double-crested Cormorant   20
Great Blue Heron   7
Black-crowned Night-Heron   2
Turkey Vulture   1252
Osprey   2
Bald Eagle   3
Northern Harrier   3
Sharp-shinned Hawk   23
Cooper's Hawk   27
Sharp-shinned/Cooper's Hawk   21
Accipiter sp.   1
Red-shouldered Hawk   3
Broad-winged Hawk   513
Red-tailed Hawk   134
Buteo sp.   45
American Kestrel   21
Merlin   3
Peregrine Falcon   2
small falcon sp.   5
diurnal raptor sp.   30
Killdeer   9
Spotted Sandpiper   6
Solitary Sandpiper   5
Ring-billed Gull   1094
Herring Gull   294
Great Black-backed Gull   3
Rock Pigeon   134
Mourning Dove   207
Northern Saw-whet Owl   1
Common Nighthawk   12
Chimney Swift   88
Ruby-throated Hummingbird   30
Belted Kingfisher   17
Red-bellied Woodpecker   12
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker   2
Downy Woodpecker   114
Hairy Woodpecker   38
Northern Flicker   60
Pileated Woodpecker   4
Olive-sided Flycatcher   3
Eastern Wood-Pewee   16
Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's)   3
Least Flycatcher   11
Empidonax sp.   2
Eastern Phoebe   13
Great Crested Flycatcher   14
Northern Shrike   1
Blue-headed Vireo   10
Warbling Vireo   12
Philadelphia Vireo   7
Red-eyed Vireo   53
Blue Jay   1458
American Crow   277
Tree Swallow   1
Barn Swallow   36
Black-capped Chickadee   1266
Boreal Chickadee   1
Red-breasted Nuthatch   35
White-breasted Nuthatch   40
Brown Creeper   4
Carolina Wren   15
House Wren   52
Winter Wren   2
Marsh Wren   1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher   52
Golden-crowned Kinglet   286
Ruby-crowned Kinglet   174
kinglet sp.   70
Veery   1
Swainson's Thrush   3
Hermit Thrush   28
American Robin   959
Gray Catbird   124
Northern Mockingbird   1
European Starling   353
Cedar Waxwing   1107
Tennessee Warbler   23
Orange-crowned Warbler   13
Nashville Warbler   145
Vermivora sp.   6
Northern Parula   3
Yellow Warbler   9
Chestnut-sided Warbler   51
Magnolia Warbler   100
Black-throated Blue Warbler   18
Yellow-rumped Warbler   542
Black-throated Green Warbler   34
Blackburnian Warbler   30
Pine Warbler   5
Palm Warbler   38
Bay-breasted Warbler   19
Blackpoll Warbler   15
Bay-breasted/Blackpoll Warbler   3
Black-and-white Warbler   49
American Redstart   73
Ovenbird   3
Northern Waterthrush   2
Common Yellowthroat   27
Wilson's Warbler   93
Canada Warbler   19
Eastern Towhee   1
American Tree Sparrow   44
Chipping Sparrow   79
Field Sparrow   6
Savannah Sparrow   1
Fox Sparrow   20
Song Sparrow   417
Lincoln's Sparrow   6
Swamp Sparrow   28
White-throated Sparrow   471
White-crowned Sparrow   337
Dark-eyed Junco   391
Northern Cardinal   716
Rose-breasted Grosbeak   17
Indigo Bunting   37
Red-winged Blackbird   211
Rusty Blackbird   9
Common Grackle   3115
Brown-headed Cowbird   12
Baltimore Oriole   8
Purple Finch   5
House Finch   43
Pine Siskin   9
American Goldfinch   1401
House Sparrow   300

An incredible fall (which is hopefully not over quite yet)

[Reuven_M]

Not much around this afternoon:
My whole list:
x   Canada Goose (heard only)
30   Ring-billed Gull
2   Herring Gull
1   Mourning Dove
3   Downy Woodpecker
3   Hairy Woodpecker
3   American Crow
20   Black-capped Chickadee
1   White-breasted Nuthatch
2   Dark-eyed Junco
1   Northern Cardinal
5   American Goldfinch

[Reuven_M]

A few bird this afternoon, including 2 cooper's hawk, 1 red-bellied and 1 pileated woodpecker

[Reuven_M]

Migration isn't quite over, I had 3 fox and 1 song sparrow this morning in the fog among various overwinterers

[Reuven_M]

Surprisingly good this morning, with a few lateish birds that hopefully overwinter, including 2 bluebird, 2 golden-crowned kinglet and 1 brown creeper.
Also:
3 red-tails and 1 sharpie
2 downy, 1 hairy and 1 red-bellied woodpecker

[Reuven_M]

I left this morning with the ground bare, and it was coated with white by the time I got back. A pretty good morning, probably everything seen is wintering.
1 red-tailed hawk
1 red-bellied and 1 downy woodpecker
2 robins (heard)
1 brown creeper (heard)
A large flock of finches, but unfortunately I couldn't find any purples, siskins or redpolls. I estimated 50 golds and 75 houses.

[Reuven_M]

And I thought migration was over... golden eagle AND white-winged crossbill today        
The eagle was a flyover, the crossbill feeding in the first conifers you come to driving in from Dundas St.

Also:
1 red-tail
1 downy woodpecker
1 robin
loads of finches all over the place, my very rough estimate is 80 each house and gold (I also had a siskin at my feeder yesterday)