Directions: Thickson's Woods Nature Preserve is at the bottom of Thickson's Road going South from the 401 in Whitby.
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Dropped in late this am to Thickson's. It was pretty quiet (although
it's always a pleasure to stroll through the beautiful woods). We did
have a Pine Warbler singing persistently from the heights of the
towering white pines, along with a peewee and a few cedar waxwings and
the usual background of the 'swamp birds'. Down and across the road,
there was a persistently singing first-year male Orchard Oriole, a
nesting pair of Blue-Gray Gnatcatchers (discovered when we saw one of
the pair diving on a Grackle who was preening himself after a bath, but
a little too close to the nest). There was also a Brown Thrasher who
was un-naturally silent and skulking, along with numbers of the usual
players.
