Cranberry Marsh

[thouc]

Here is a report from the Cranberry Marsh this morning

200 Canada Goose
10 Mute Swan
2 American Wigeon
4 American Black Duck
50 Mallard
40 Northern Shoveler
6 Northern Pintail
15 Ring-necked Duck
6 Lesser Scaup
30 Bufflehead
10 Common Goldeneye
7 Hooded Merganser
10 Common Merganser
6 Red-breasted Merganser
30 Ruddy Duck
1 Wild Turkey   on Halls Rd
1 Osprey          on one of the nesting platforms
1 Red-tailed Hawk
4 American Coot
20 Ring-billed Gull
1 Herring Gull
2 Rock Pigeon
2 Mourning Dove
3 Downy Woodpecker
17 Northern Flicker
4 Eastern Phoebe
1 Blue Jay
20 American Crow
30 Black-capped Chickadee
3 Brown Creeper
2 Winter Wren
1 Hermit Thrush
5 American Robin
5 European Starling
4 American Tree Sparrow
20 Song Sparrow
1 White-throated Sparrow
20 Dark-eyed Junco
4 Northern Cardinal
25 Red-winged Blackbird
10 Common Grackle
30 Brown-headed Cowbird
10 American Goldfinch

[mark75]

Just to add: A pair of Trumpeter Swans were calling and displaying on Fri. Morning
                 Several Northern Harriers were flying and hovering over the open areas around Cranberry Marsh
                 One Fox Sparrow amid the junco and sparrow flocks in Lynde Shores Conservation Area ( Bird Feeder Trail )

[wideawakes]

Where is this? Could you give directions from Toronto?

[GStuart]

Drive east along the 401 to Salem Road (in Ajax).  Turn right (south) and proceed to Bayly Street East.  Turn left (east) and continue past Lakeridge Road where Bayly will change its name to Victoria Street West (you are now entering Whitby).  Halls Road South will be the first road on your right (south).  Drive south for about one and a half kilometers and eventually you will see a small widening of the road that acts as a parking pull-off.  This is the entrance to the northern viewing platform.  A few hundred meters south of that is the pull-off for the south viewing platform.

Had you continued along Victoria (instead of turning onto Halls Road S) you will get to the Lynde Shores Conservation Area (of which Cranberry Marsh is the western-most section).  This is where you would find the Bird Feeder Trail.

For more information, check out http://www.cloca.com/con_areas/CAlyndeshores.php .

[egret]

Yes indeed, that is the Lynde Shores area
but for any of you who now go.. do you not
notice the changes?  I have been going for years
and not the same at all.



I like the Cranberry Marsha area
and will attend soon.

egret