Yesterday April 30/19 Bob Tyler, Owen Moorhouse and I birded the Toronto Islands and though it was like birding in March we did come up with some decent birds though the pickings were slim.
11 waterfowl species including Red-necked Grebe, Gadwalls, Canvasbacks and Lesser Scaup, Common Goldeneye, (there are still lots of Red-breasted Mergansers and Long-tailed Ducks down there), Cooper’s Hawks, Merlin, Killdeer, 7 Spotted Sandpipers, 1 juvenile Glaucous Gull, Caspian Terns, Common Terns at the breeding raft in the Trout Pond, Belted Kingfisher, Northern Flickers, Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers, Eastern Phoebes, Purple Martins, Cliff Swallows, White-breasted Nuthatches, Brown Creeper, House Wrens, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Hermit Thrushes, Brown Thrashers, Yellow-rumped Warblers, 1 Palm Warbler, Chipping Sparrows, 2 Clay-colored Sparrows, Field Sparrow, and Savannah Sparrows. For this time of year the Yellow-rumped Warblers and White-throated Sparrow numbers are way down and lots of the expected migrants are yet to make an appearance. Norm Murrr 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
