Hello, and Riverwood + Erindale birds
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Hello, and Riverwood + Erindale birds

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Reuven_M

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Hi everyone :D
I've been reading this forum for a bit, and I thought I'd join up.
Im a 16-year old birder in Mississauga, right near Erindale Park.
I've been birding for as long as I can remember.

Mostly I'm visiting Riverwood and Erindale park, also Rattray Marsh and Port Credit are biking distance.

Anyways, this morning I biked aroung Riverwood and Erindale, and had some nice birds:
2 solitary sandpiper in the little pond in Erindale near the Burnhamthorpe bridge
9 warbler species including 1 blackpoll, 4 black-throated green, 3 wilson's, 1 canada, 5 magnolia
But the highlight was an osprey flying over Erindale, only the second I've had there. (not quite as good as the golden eagle soaring in the same spot last spring though!!!:mrgreen:)

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Welcome, Reuven, and thanks for posting.  It's great to get coverage for these spots.
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Thanks

Much (much) better today , did the same route as yesterday
1 cooper's hawk
1 red-bellied woodpecker
2 great crested and 1 least flycatcher and 3 pewees
5 red-eyed, 2 warbling and 2 Philadelphia vireos
1 Carolina and 2 house wren
2 rose-breasted grosbeak
15 warblers :mrgreen: including: 3 Tennessee, 5 Nashville, 6 chestnut-sided, 11 magnolia, 4 blackburnian, 5 black-throated green, 5 black-throated blue, 3 black-and-white, 9 redstart, 15 Wilson's, 1 Yellowthroat, 2 blackpoll, 2 bay-breasted, 3 Canada and 1 pine.
Not a bad day at all! :D
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Hi Reuven.  Welcome to the forum!  :D
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Hi Reuven. Nice lists. Keep em coming! Thanks.
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Thanks Jo-anne and Andreas

Another very good day today.

50 sp. total
Best bird was a great black-backed gull (first for Erindale/ Riverwood for me)
3 hummingbirds
4 woodpecker sp. including 1 pileated
1 traill's and 1 least flycatcher
1 warbling, 2 philidelphia and 9 red-eyed vireo
1 carolina and 1 house wren
1 rose-breasted grosbeak and 2 indigo buntings
15 warbler sp. again:
2 nashville, 1 yellow (last of the year?), 7 chestnut-sided, 3 magnolia, 1 black-throated blue, 4 black-throated green, 8 blackburnian, 1 pine, 7 bay-breasted, 3 blackpoll, 4 black-and-white, 7 american redstart, 2 northern waterthrush, 13 wilson's, 3 canada
I think it was mostly the same birds as yesterday, as flocks were in the same areas and similar sizes.

also 2 deer and 100s of green darner dragonflies
Anyone else who visits erindale or riverwood please post what you see
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Reuven,
Hello and welcome.
Quite an impressive list from a park 15 minutes away from me.
I think it's time for a visit.
Do you normally just stay on the paved bike/foot path between the 2 parks?
Meghan
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I normally either bike to Riverwood and walk the main paths there, or enter Erindale at the path off of Credit Heights dr., bike around in Erindale, and then along the path to Riverwood.

I've seen almost 140 species in a little over 2 years birding the parks, including golden eagle, red-shouldered hawk, peregrine, short and long-eared owl, pied-billed grebe, tundra swan (flyover), bufflehead, goldeneye, wilson's snipe, northern shrike, clay-coloured sparrow, white-winged crossbill and hoary redpoll

Last winter at least 4 golden-crowned kinglets, 4 brown creepers 1 hermit thrush 3 robins and 1 winter wren wintered in Erindale
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Quote from: "Reuven_M"
Best bird was a great black-backed gull (first for Erindale/ Riverwood for me)
Good one!  Usually see these birds at Jack Darling Park and Lakefront Promenade Park.  

My mom visits Riverwood and Erindale all the time and has been seeing a lot of deer lately.

Many years ago, I lived at Forestwood/Credit Woodlands so used to walk into Erindale daily off Credit Heights.  What a trip down memory lane!
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Less birds today, but still much better than usual, I hope this luck stays for the rest of the fall
Best was a black-crowned night-heron, my first for Erindale/Riverwood, and a parula, my first of the fall
2 wood duck
1 cormorant
1 great blue and 1 night-heron
1 vulture and 2 cooper's hawk
2 hummingbirds
2 kingfishers
2 pewees, 1 traill's, 3 unidentified empids and 1 great crested flycatcher
2 warbling and 5 red-eyed vireo
2 carolina wrens
3 grosbeaks
12 warbler sp, in considerably lower numbers than the last 2 days:
2 Tennessee, 2 nashville, 1 parula (singing!), 4 chestnut-sided, 4 magnolia, 1 black-throated blue, 4 blackburnian, 3 bay-breasted, 2 black-and-white, 2 redstarts, 1 canada and strangely, 11 Wilson's.
Has anyone else noticed way more Wilson's this fall? Before this fall I'd seen 3 in total at Erindale and Riverwood and I saw none anywhere this spring, but they've been by far the most common warbler this fall. I've probably seen at least 50 this fall so far.
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I actually counted it, and I've seen 147 species in Erindale and Riverwood, not "nearly 140"
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Much quieter today, with no flycatchers and just 1 vireo (a warbling), I'm guessing because of the heat.
Once again Wilson's are way more common than normal, 13/31 warblers were Wilson's
37 species total
1 wood duck
1 black-crowned night-heron
1 kingfisher
2 red-bellied woodpeckers (I love these guys :mrgreen:)
2 barn swallows
1 carolina and 1 house wren
1 gnatcatcher
1 nashville, 3 yellow (unexpected!), 2 chestnut-sided, 3 magnolia, 2 blackburnian, 3 bay-breasted, 2 "baypoll" (I think one bay-breast and 1 blackpoll, but they are not easy!), 2 redstarts and 13 (!) wilson's warbler
The chipping and song sparrows are starting to flock
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I met up with Will Corrigan this morning, and it was extremely quiet, the only migrant was 1 magnolia warbler
1 Cooper's Hawk
1 Pileated Woodpecker
1 Great blue heron
1 red-eyed vireo
1 magnolia warbler
6 barn swallow
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Decent today, but I think this is still mostly migrants from 4-5 days ago.
32 species total
1 Hummingbird
4 downy, 1 hairy and 3 flickers
1 red-eyed vireo
4 red-breasted and 1 white-breasted nuthatch
3 house wren
1 veery (first this fall)
10 warblers: 4 yellow (should be gone by now), 1 magnolia, 2 blackburnian, 2 pine, 1 bay-breasted, 1 blackpoll, 2 black-and-white, 4 redstart, 2 canada and 13 Wilson's.
That means that I had 13 Wilson's and only 15 other warblers!
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Went down to erindale for about 40 minutes this evening to look for nighthawks, and found 6
also a flock of 4-500 blackbirds, mostly grackles, an indigo bunting, and 4 bats, I think big brown
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