Yesterday Bob Tyler and I birded the Toronto Islands and following are some of the birds we found.
Black-crowned Night Heron, Trumpeter Swans, Gadwall, 17 Turkey Vultures, Northern Harriers, Sharp-shinned and Cooper’s Hawks, 2 VIrginia Rails, 2 Soras, many Killdeer and Spotted Sandpipers, Glaucous and Iceland Gulls, 35+ Caspian Terns, Common Terns, Belted Kingfisher, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers, Northern Flickers, Yellow-bellied, Willow, Least and Great-crested Flycatchers, Eastern Kingbird, 2 Fish Crows, Red-breasted and White-breasted Nuthatches, House and Marsh Wrens, both Kinglet species, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Eastern Bluebird, Veery, Hermit and Wood Thrushes, Brown Thrashers, Blue-headed and Warbling Vireos, only 6 Warbler species this time out including Nashville. many Yellow, Black-throated Green and Palm Warblers, Ovenbird, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, 11 Sparrow species including Eastern Towhee, Chipping, Clay-colored, Field, Lincoln’s, Swamp and White-crowned, Bobolinks, Eastern Meadowlark and Baltimore Orioles. Due too the past couple of years of some areas getting flooded there seem to be hundreds of Toads singing on Hanlan’s and Ward’s Islands. There are now areas on The Islands that are starting to flood and puddles are appearing in many grassy and brushy areas as the water in the lake is quite high and in some places that were flooded two years ago sand bagging is in progress just in case. Norm Murr Richmond Hill, ON Sent from Mail for Windows 10 _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
