[Ontbirds] Leslie Street Spit - Brant

Just had a flock of about 15 Brant Geese flying east to west over Leslie Street Spit. Kai Sheffield Sent from my iPhone ___ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to bir

[Ontbirds] Leslie Street Spit - lots of Easterns: Bluebirds, Towhee, and Phoebe...

Greetings! We spent an hour at the Spit this afternoon. We were delighted to see about 6 Eastern Bluebirds, an Eastern Towhee, an Eastern Phoebe, Hermit Thrushes, and a Raptor flying around. The light was grand for a change! The Leslie Street Spit, aka Tommy Thompson Park, is at the foot of Lesli

[Ontbirds] Leslie Street Spit - King Eiders, Tundra Swan, etc.

The two King Eiders that were found last Saturday by Ed O`Conner and were seen again on Sunday and Monday are still out there. They were in the East Cove which is beside Pipit Point which is the furthest point out on the southwest part of The Spit (take the left hand road at the Quonset Hut). Th

[Ontbirds] Leslie Street Spit - Purple Sandpiper, Golden Plover and another bus stop Eagle

Today Margaret Liubavicius and I birded the Leslie Street Spit (Tommy Thompson Park) and though it was a relatively quiet day out there we did find a few nice birds. On Pipit Point Margaret spotted a Purple Sandpiper on the rocks and a Red-necked Grebe just off shore on the lake and as we turne

[Ontbirds] Leslie Street Spit Saturday

As no one has posted re: Toronto's Leslie Street Spit yesterday, here is a brief report.  Our group from York Region (just north of T.O.) had an enjoyable day with highlights including American Pipit (25 or more), Snow Bunting (25 or more), Horned Lark (5), Rusty Blackbird (8), and - our "fave"

[Ontbirds] Leslie street Spit (Tommy Thompson Park) - Lapland Longspur, etc.

Good evening. Today Margaret Liubavicius and I took walk out onto The Spit and while there we found a Lapland Longspur out on The Endikement. Other kind of nice birds that we found were Common Loon, Common Goldeneye, Redhead, Greater Scaup, all 3 Mergansers, Northern Harrier, Osprey, Sharp-s

[Ontbirds] Leslie Street Spit - Horned, Eared and Red-necked Grebes, etc.

Good afternoon Today Ian Cannell and I birded the leslie Street Spit on a cool Spring day. No wind made for a pleasant outing. Besides the 1 Eared, 1 Horned and 11 Red-necked Grebes we also watched as 12 Double-crested Cormorants arrived. We also found 24 westerly flying Tundra Swans, Northe

[Ontbirds] Leslie Street Spit - King Eider, etc.

Today Ian and I birded the Leslie Street spit for our first gloveless day this season. Despite the clouds it turned out to be a pleasant outing high lighted by Ian finding a female King Eider on the lake close beside The Lighthouse. Other birds of note were 17 Red-necked Grebes, both Scaup, Su

[Ontbirds]Leslie Street Spit - King Eiders, Purple Sandpipers, etc.

Good evening folks Today Ian Cannell, Alfred Adamo, Ed O'Conner, Margaret Liubavicius and myself again teamed up to bird the Leslie Street Spit and besides the 2 King Eiders ( first winter male and female, close to shore, scope not required ) and 4 Purple Sandpipers at Pipit Point we also came

[Ontbirds] Leslie Street Spit - migrating Dickcissel among other migrants

Good Evening Today Margaret Liubavicius, Ian Cannell and I did some Passerine birding as apposed to the Lake Watch done by others today an among the many migrating birds was a Dickcissel flying west this morning. Other birds in numbers seen flying west were 2000+ Red-breasted Mergansers, 3

[Ontbirds] Leslie Street Spit - Pacific Loon, Purple Sandpiper, Pine Siskins and Purple Finches, etc.

Good evening folks Today Ian Cannell, Margaret Liubavicius and I birded The Spit and a good choice Sunday rather than Saturday turned out to be. Around 8am as we walked along the entrance causeway checking the passing small flocks of Pine Siskins I looked up to see a small Loon flying low off

[Ontbirds] Leslie Street Spit-Purple Finches, Lapland Longspurs, Clay-colored Sparrow, etc.

Another great weather day to be out there beating the bushes and that Margaret Liubavicius and I did on a short visit to The Spit. Following are some of the birds we found without going along the outer areas for lake birds.. Common Loon, Northern Shovelers, Canvasbacks, Redheads, many Lesser

[Ontbirds] Leslie Street Spit - Sharp-tailed Sparrow, Orange- crowned Warbler & Waterfowl

Good Day folks Today the team of Ian Cannell, Ed O'Conner, Alfred Adamo, Margaret Liubavicius and myself spent some time birding The Spit and though it was a not a busy day bird wise we did see some nice birds including Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow, Orange-crowned, and N. Parula Warblers, Bl

[Ontbirds]Leslie Street Spit - Migrants, etc.

Today Ian Cannell, Ed O'Conner, Naish McHugh and I birded the Leslie Street Spit and even though we only came up with 51 species of birds we did find some early migrants and some other birds of interest and maybe 1 dozen species of Butterflies ( not my specialty ), a Mink and a nice look at a K

[Ontbirds]Leslie Street Spit - Woodcock, Lesser Yellowlegs, etc.

Good evening . Today Margaret Liubavicius and I spent the day birding The Spit and we did find some decent birds besides the usual suspects. Best birds of the day ( for us ) were 4 A. Woodcock and 1 Lesser Yellowlegs. Other goodies were:- Red-necked Grebes, 35+ Double-crested Cormorants, Trumpe

[Ontbirds]Leslie Street Spit in Toronto Today - Grebes. etc.

Good evening This morning I joined Margaret Liubavicius for a stroll on the Leslie Street Spit and stroll we did as it was a beautiful morning to be out there. Highlights birds were:- Horned grebes - 6 Red-necked Grebes - 26 Both Scaup White-winged Scoters - 47 All 3 Mergansers including 2 Ho

[Ontbirds]Leslie Street Spit - Sedge Wren and Waterfowl

Today was another one of those beautiful days not to be at home or in a mall and Ed O'Conner, Ian Cannell, Margaret Liubavicius and I took advantage of this fine weather and went to the Leslie Street Spit ( Tommy Thompson Park ). It started out with 500+ Red-winged Blackbirds and some A. Pipit

[Ontbirds] Leslie Street Spit - Red-throated Loons, Lapland Longspur, etc.

Good evening Today Ian Cannell and I birded the Leslie Street Spit and we had a pretty good day out there with relatively calm winds and good visibility on and over the lake. We headed straight out to Pipit Point and there were rewarded with among other birds 3 Red-throated Loons together cl

[Ontbirds]Leslie Street Spit Sunday

The West Humber Naturalists (based in Kleinburg) were led on a pleasant hike up and down the Leslie Street Spit by John Watson today. The most notable bird there - a male Harlequin duck reported by Andrew Keaveny yesterday - WAS observed by Dan Derbyshire and a few other TRCA banders this morni

[Ontbirds]Leslie Street Spit - Longspurs, wtc.

Good morning Yesterday I decided to head for The Spit for a day of walking and birding. It turned out to be a beautiful and bird filled day even though the Passerine migration has drastically dropped off. I made my way out to Pipit Point for the morning and to check the lake. On the way I ha

[Ontbirds]Leslie Street Spit - Waterfowl, Longspurs, etc.

Good day. Today Ian Cannell, Jay Peterson, Andrew Jano and I birded the Leslie Street Spit and for once we had a no wind day. We started out birding through the West Side of the Base, out to Pipit Point and onto Peninsulas B and C and along the way we came up with 74 species, including 25 Wate

[Ontbirds] Leslie Street Spit Migration (Parula and Olive-sided, etc.)

Good evening. Today was a slow migration day compared to the middle of this week due to weather but that it will change for the better. Despite the slowness Alfred Adamo and I found 60 species of birds on The Spit including the following species some of which are early or new arrivals and som

[Ontbirds]Leslie Street Spit

The OFO walk today at the Leslie Street Spit in Toronto saw 35 people walk through the wet woods and out onto the Spit in misty foggy weather that gradually changed to sunshine by 2 pm A total of 70 species were seen, including 13 warbler species. Highlights included a blue-gray gnatcatcher on

[Ontbirds]Leslie Street Spit Saw-Whet Owls

Yesterday on the Leslie Street Spit we found 2 very sleepy Saw-Whet Owls. (Photo will be sent to OFO website.)We also found plenty of wash from the previously reported Boreal, but could not relocate him. Ducks included Redheads,Scaup,Oldsquaw, Goldeneye,Bufflehead. Also Kildeer, Red-winged Blackb

[Ontbirds]Leslie Street Spit - Northern Shrike

Saturday afternoon there was a Northern Shrike hunting in the open area at the south-east end of the Spit, near where the large flock of redheads et al were. It was a great day for walking and biking the many trails. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jan 2 10:20:29 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]