Leslie Street Spit 10/10

[bosh]

Great day at the Spit today - spent most of the day from 8 am onwards out there. Highlight of the many good birds was a female Black Scoter.

28 Canada Goose
26 Mute Swan
4 Trumpeter Swan (Tag # 107, 111; two un-tagged)
57 Gadwall
10 American Wigeon
9 American Black Duck
2 American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid)
91 Mallard
1 Blue-winged Teal
23 Northern Shoveler
7 Northern Pintail
26 Redhead
6 Greater Scaup
2 Lesser Scaup
40 Greater/Lesser Scaup
1 Black Scoter
1 Bufflehead
18 Hooded Merganser
6 Common Merganser
1 Red-necked Grebe
40 Double-crested Cormorant (Dark-crested)
2 Great Blue Heron
1 Green Heron
1 Black-crowned Night-Heron
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
15 Killdeer
35 Ring-billed Gull
2 Herring Gull
3 Mourning Dove
3 Belted Kingfisher
5 Downy Woodpecker
4 Eastern Phoebe
4 Blue Jay
3 Black-capped Chickadee
1 Brown Creeper
3 Winter Wren
16 Golden-crowned Kinglet
32 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1 Gray-cheeked Thrush
6 European Starling
11 Palm Warbler
19 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
4 Field Sparrow
11 Song Sparrow
2 Swamp Sparrow
30 White-throated Sparrow
1 White-crowned Sparrow
8 Dark-eyed Junco
4 Northern Cardinal
1 Common Grackle
11 American Goldfinch

1 Mink
2 Muskrat
2 Northern Leopard Frog

[lovemypt]

nice list

[pmanning]

That's a great list. Where were you? I spent part of Sunday at the big pond on the east side, and saw lots of great waterfowl (Shovelers and Blue-Winged Teal), but I'd really like to know where you were.

[bosh]

I was all over. The water level was really low so I went out on the marsh in "Embayment A" - that's where I saw the Scoter, the Swamp Sparrows, the BCNH, the Sharpie, one Wren... the Green & Blue Herons were at the East Pond with the ducks you mentioned and a few others like a Phoebe, the Killdeer, Kingfishers... almost all of the Palm Warblers were out near the lighthouse rooting around at the base of a small tree, but the other warblers and Kinglets were mostly in the forest where you go out to the cormorant nesting area. Out by the nests themselves there were lots of White-throateds and Downy Woodpeckers, the Common Mergansers and the Creeper. The Cardinals and Goldfinches were in the parking lot area. The Field Sparrows were by the little bridge.

So, in other words, all over! But it's interesting how many of the species seem to keep to certain areas.