This AM I spent 2 h birding & videoing birds at Colonel Sam ( Kipling Spit):
Here are the Hilights;
{{ Not to worry spring is here!!}}
Pine Warblers 2? ( at Lakeshore, NE of "Campus area")
Yellow-rumped Warblers 3 ( at Lakeshore NE and? creek entrance behind pump)
Hermit Thrush? 1? ( behind Humber College main building)
Ruby-crowned Kinglets? 6?
Short-eared Owl ( grassy area? SE of?southernmost parking spot) being mobbed by
RB & Herring gulls!!
Northern Shrike?( west of Father Redmond High School, it has been in the area
since January!)
Caspian Terns 6
Bonaparte's Gulls 2
Black-crowned Night Herons 2
Killdeer? 8
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker? 1
Eastern Towhee? 1
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Northern Flicker 6
Northern Mockingbirds? 2
Tree Swallows? 30+
Barn Swallows? 6
Rough-winged Swallows 2
Purple Martins 2
White-breasted Nuthatch? 4
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Savannah Sparrows? 4
White-throated Sparrows 2
Song Sparrow? 60+
Coots 4
Common?Loon ( spring plumage)? 4
Red-necked Grebes? 150
Horned?Grebes 25
Red-breasted Merganser 50+
Common Mergansers? 6
Hooded Merganser 2
Lesser Scaups 30+
Greater Scaups 20
Redheads 4
American Wigeons? 2
Wood Ducks? 5
plus 20 more common birds species
and 30 subspecies of Canis familiaris
Enjoy!
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