Good evening Today Ian Cannell, Margaret Liubavicius and I birded the Toronto Islands to check on the migration progress down there and we were not disappointed at all. Below are some of the birds we found.
100+ Cormorants heading to the Leslie Street Spit nesting sites, 20 Wood Ducks ( 1 flock of 18 overhead ), Canvasbacks, all 3 Mergansers, Black-crowned night-Herons, Cooper's Hawk, A. Coot, 15+ Killdeer, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, N. Flickers, 9 E. Phoebes, Brown Creepers, Winter Wrens ( singing ), Tree Swallows, 50+ Golden-crowned Kinglets, 5 Fox Sparrows ( some singing ), 90+ Song Sparrows, White-throated Sparrows, Field Sparrows and Eastern Meadowlark. The birds were great but the real high light of the day would be the 2 Opossums that we watched ( up close ) for a few minutes each. Norm Murr Richmond Hill, ON "Sils mordent, mords les" _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list ONTBIRDS@hwcn.org For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
