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At least one Fish Crow was seen and heard here today. I was scoping the marsh
from the knoll walk when I noticed two crows feeding on a raccoon carcass with
a Turkey Vulture on the mudflat in the middle of the marsh (but close to the
creek opening into the lake). Within a
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While birding Lake Ontario from the piers at the south end of Etobicoke Creek I
found two Eared Grebes. One in non-breeding bird plumage was feeding 30 to 50
m off shore: black cap (peaked at front) and sides of head to just below the
eye to bill and extending down sides of
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I went over to the park to look for the Cliff Swallow posted on e.bird
by Iain Fleming this morning and had no trouble finding it perched in tree near
the bridge west of the marina headquarters. It eventually flew out to the lake
where it joined about 30 swallows
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This afternoon at 5:50 pm I found two American Woodcocks in a small muddy area
under some large willow branches. These were only about 2 meters from one of
the board walks ... this one located to the left and near the bottom of the
sloping road which is only access to the
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David Creelman and I had a Killdeer fly over us heading south around 3:30 pm
today. No sign of any Red-throated Loons but I did have two unidentified loons
swimming too far out to ID.
Directions: south end of Colonel Samuel Smith Drive which runs south of the
Kipling
Yesterday I got great views of the bird with a lot of birders including Mark
Field while it preened, stretched, slept, took a short flight from 2:15 to 3:45
pm. Today it was sitting at ne end of concrete break water where it was
yesterday from at least 3:00 pm when I arrived until 4:30 when it
Just a quick note here to add a few other details of what we saw today.
The Dunlin total was 1191 with some groups landing and feeding along
the tops of the armour stone walls. Also seen were 15 Semipalmated
Sandpipers, 2 Black-bellied Plovers and one Ruddy Turnstone. As Tim
says over next
Today the watch lasted 9 hours form 5:30 am to 2:30 pm when the rain
started. One flock of 45 Whimbrels was seen at 2:15 pm just the rain
was starting: they flew in low from sse, circled the point then landed
somewhere down along the sw end of the peninsula. There was no one
there hiking or
The Phalarope was feeding in a relatively small sedgy area in the south
corner of field about 60 feet from road; a female with striking dark
band from back of bill to sides of back; white cheeks; pale pinkish
neck and fading on white on lower breast; long black pointed bill.
Also present
This morning I birded the park from 6:30 to 11:30 am. There were few
birds in first hour of birding but around 7:45 am a thunderstorm passed
north bringing in some light rain causing a large fallout of warblers
and other passerines. I recorded 22 species of warblers but nothing
super rare:
I birded the park from 12:30 to 5:00 pm. Shortly after I arrived, a
raven flew into a small tree on the grassy area east of the Dogwood
Patch. Within 3 minutes it flew into one of the large spruces at the
north end of the dogwood patch. Within a few minutes another raven
flew from the sw
Seen in the willows along the river of the flood plane singing
frequently. Viewed through 15x binoculars for two minutes: bright
yellow chest and throat; yellow mask with yellow eye ring; olive cap an
back; strong white barring on tips of greater secondaries and tertials;
white underpart
At 4:30 pm I found 3 Willets with one Great Yellowlegs in the shallow
flooded field just nne of the flooded field where most of the
shorebird, Including the Glossy Ibis and Ruff, were found a few years
ago and single Willet yesterday. I ended up wading along the entire
western edge of the
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