Common Moorhen - Scarborough

[Bluffs Birder]

After almost 30 years of having a small waterfall/pond in the backyard it finally paid off this morning with the sighting of a Common Moorhen walking about.  What a strange bird to have in the yard here in southern Scarborough.  Unfortunately the bird seems to have moved on as I haven't seen it in approx. 30 minutes.
 
I live in the Kingston Road/Midland Avenue area and will repost with directions if the bird is spotted again.
 
Walter Fisher

[Len Manning]

Excellent record. Great bird to get. I still can't find one!

[Whittam]

Excellent bird!   Cheers Terry

[Bluffs Birder]

After not being seen for a week the Moorhen just reappeared at 6:30PM on the top of the fence out in the backyard.  It stayed there for about a minute and then flew over to our neighbour's yard and then quickly disappeared again.  Other than 2 ponds, the neighbour's and ours, I don't know what would be the attraction in hanging around here so long.  Unbelievable!

Walter

[Brian Bailey]

Maybe with all this rain, the whole city seems like a marsh!  The one at Sam Smith Park is still there too.  When it showed up last weekend, I thought it would be a one day visitor.

BB