Humber Bay Park East November 12

[American Redstart]

Today at Humber Bay, the highlights were a white-winged scoter and shrieking sounds from the mockingbirds.
I saw 15 species and 8 were ducks.

10 Canada Geese
10 Mute Swans
10 Gadwalls
10 Mallards
5 Redheads
1 White-winged Scoter
50 Long-tailed Ducks
15 Buffleheads
5 Hooded Mergansers
10 Common Mergansers
15 Ring-billed Gulls
20 Northern Mockingbirds
1 Northern Cardinal
5 House Finches
5 European Starlings

[JW Mills]

Nice list!
I was there today as well and would like to add;
1 Loon
1 Ruddy Duck

[jackbreakfast]

Nice name; nice bird!
Hi!
I was there too today and saw all those save the house finches and scoter (nice treats for you)...the wailing mockingbird was a delight...
I would also add 1 egret, 6 green-winged teal, and ~5 yellow-rumped warblers!
Good weather today!
j.b.

[American Redstart]

Where in Humber Bay Park did you see the Ruddy duck?

[JW Mills]

I spotted the Ruddy Duck off the north-east point at roughly these co-ordinates;
Lat. 43.62512958752863
Long. -79.47029650211334
 
I use this site;
http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html

[American Redstart]

Thanks.

[American Redstart]

My white-winged scoter was a ruddy duck.

[GStuart]

Today at Humber Bay, the highlights were a white-winged scoter and shrieking sounds from the mockingbirds.
20 Northern Mockingbirds

Um, wow!

[stvgarrett]

The Mimico Creek Estuary (this separates Humber Bay East park from Humber Bay West park) is pretty reliable for a Northern Pintail. There has been a nice male here for a few weeks, seen again this morning. See this map, where the green arrow is:
http://g.co/maps/443ar
Note that the map photo is old, the area in question has been pretty much segregated from the main part of the creek in recent years. As a result, you cannot see the area in question from the west side of the creek, you need to be on the east side.

Also seen in the same location: 2 Killdeer, Great Egret, 10+ American Wigeons, 3 American Black Ducks.

[stuartimmonen]

Very nice assortment! I haven't been over to HBP in weeks... I've been missing out. Are the Hoodies in the interior pond or out on the lake?

Nice to see Buffleheads and Long Tails returned all along the Lake Ontario shoreline, as well as the former in Grenadier Pond.

All these S and SW winds should really be paying off with something crazy, shouldn't they?

s

[American Redstart]

I saw the hooded mergansers on the lake.
There were quite a few of them.

[stvgarrett]

Hooded Mergansers were pretty widespread, including several in one of the interior small ponds, as well as in the estuary (which included a number of green winged teals as well as the other birds I mentioned).