Northern Pintail, Ring-necked Duck-- Grenadier Pond 02/07/12

[stuartimmonen]

At around 8AM today, while scanning a large group of Ring-billed Gulls loafing on the (very thin) ice at the south end of Grenadier Pond in High Park, I noticed a male Northern Pintail and male Ring-necked Duck hanging around with Mallards at the pond edge. Both were within 6m of a couple of breaks in the phragmites, accessible from the walking path parallel to the Queensway:

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While land birds were a little thin, there was lots of variety in the water:


Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Gadwall
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Ring-necked Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Ring-billed Gull

And also around the south end of High Park:

Rock Pigeon
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
Dark-eyed Junco
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

[stuartimmonen]

The Ring-neck continues. I last saw the Pintail on the morning of 02/08.

[bosh]

I was there on the 10th and saw a Pintail in the marshy area north of Grenadier. The Ring-necked Duck and Hooded Mergansers were in the south part of the pond.