[Ontbirds] Possible juvenile bald eagle, DVP and York Mills (Toronto)

2017-01-08 Thread Richard Sigesmund via ONTBIRDS
sorry for the delayed email. Today at around 1 PM, I was heading north on the DVP and, on the west side near York Mills exit, spotted what appeared to be a juvenile bald eagle sitting in a tree. It was in the fairly wooded area about 100 ft west of the DVP. I was driving, so my look was fleeting a

[Ontbirds] Slaty-backed Gull Still Present (in NY)

2017-01-08 Thread Chris Escott via ONTBIRDS
Burke Korol and I, and several U.S. birders, observed the Slaty-backed Gull today. It was not visible from the Canadian side of the river. The bird was in a roosting flock on the rock/ice immediately upstream from Three Sisters Island, seen from Goat Island. It flushed once (with the whole floc

[Ontbirds] Yellow-headed Blackbird - Comber, Essex County

2017-01-08 Thread Jeremy Bensette via ONTBIRDS
Kit McCann and I just headed out to Staples and Comber in search of blackbird flocks at some grain storage areas - in hope of finding a flock to search through for Yellow-headed Blackbird - and we were not disappointed!! We found a massive flock of 5000-1 blackbirds, nearly all Brown-headed

[Ontbirds] Fw: OFO Outing - Leslie Street Spit, Toronto - Jan. 7, 2017

2017-01-08 Thread Garth Riley via ONTBIRDS
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