Here's my second posting for day ... after lunch I headed on to CSSP just as the rain was starting to let up. Similar to reports I had from several birders who I met this morning who had just come from there, the bowl and adjacent grouping of trees to the se were hopping with warblers ... in spite of the light drissle and dark skies. In stark contrast, the woods adjacent to the stream behind the old Power Plant had a few small clusters of warbler and about a dozen Rose-breasted Grosbeaks ... all concentrated in spruce grove near the south end of the creek. There were no warblers in the dense growth along banks of the creek nor in the evergreen stands to northwest. The skies cleared and winds picked up as leaving the area of stream about 3:45 pm and during a quick tour around bowl I could not find a single warbler! Could they have just left suddenly to continue their migration north? I didn't get anything really unexpected but the numbers, I think, are impressive, especially for a fairly small area, and comparable to some my day totals of my best trips to Long Point around this time of year: Golden-winged (1); Blue-winged (2); Tennessee (3); Nashville (8); Northern Parula (8); Yellow (3); Chestnut-sided (35); Magnolia (25); Cape May (5); Black-throated Blue (10); Black-throated Green (32); Yellow-rumped (5); Blackburnian (10); Palm (5); Bay-breasted (7); Black-and-white (6); American Redstart (36); Ovenbird (1); Wilson's Warbler (1); Canada Warbler (2).
Direction: The park is located in Etobicoke and located off the Kipling at Lakeshore. The parking lot (with free parking!) is located at the terminus of the road that continues from Kipling south through Humber College and just ne of the Etobicoke Yacht Club. Wayne Renaud _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdssetup.php ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/information/ontbirdsguide.php
