A sunny afternoon spent exploring Lakeside Park, Mississauga yielded 44 species as follows:
WOODCOCK (1) Spotted Sandpiper (2) CASPIAN TERN (4) Diving for fish offshore. Black-crowned Night Heron Black-throated Blue Warbler (1) Yellow-rumped Warbler (Several) Yellow Warbler (Singing loudly)(2) Black and White Warbler (1) Palm Warbler (3) Hermit Thrush LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH Robin (Several pairs feeding young) White-crowned Sparrow (100+) White-throated Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Cowbird Common Grackle Red-winged Blackbird (Including a large flock of females) Starling Bluejay Northern Mockingbird (4) Cardinal House Wren (heard) Black-capped Chickadee American Goldfinch Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Several) Yellow-shafted Flicker Downy Woodpecker Mourning Dove Rock Dove Mute Swan Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Bufflehead Mallard Canada Goose Double-crested Cormorant Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull American Kestrel DIRECTIONS: From the QEW, take Southdown Road south to Lakeshore Road West. Lakeside Park is on the south side of Lakeshore Road directly across from number 2703. Sandra and Bob Hawkins
