Hi,
Yesterday and today small numbers of pine siskins stopped early in the day
to check out the seed crop on a white spruce and a yellow birch in our yard.
This afternoon two individual white-winged crossbills perched atop a white
spruce, but soon moved on.
Throughout the day a constant flow of red-breasted mergansers moved
westward across the bay at the south side of the woods. About 4:30 a feeding
flock of some 10,000 to 12,000 almost exclusively female-plumaged red-breasted
mergansers stretched across the whole bay. Those nearest shore were being
mobbed by several hundred gulls, mostly ring-bills, as they, apparently, dived
for fish. The flock gradually moved to the western end of the bay, with
several hundred in flight at any one time.
Directions to Thickson's Woods Nature Reserve
To get to Thickson's Woods, Exit from #401 to Thickson Rd. S. Continue south
about 1.5 kilometres to the Waterfront Trail, where you will see a large green
sign on your left that says "Thickson's Woods Nature Reserve". Park along the
east side of Thickson Road and walk east along the Waterfront Trail about 200
metres to where a pathway enters the woods on your right. Trails lead through
the woods with two extending to the roadway on the south side of the woods
along the shore of Lake Ontario.
The entrance to the meadow portion of the reserve is on the north side of
the Waterfront Trail opposite the entrance to the woods.
Dennis Barry & Margaret Carney
338 Crystal Beach Blvd.
Whitby, Ontario L1N 9Z7
905-725-2116
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