Happy Spring Migration Ontbirders
Although migrating songbirds have occupyied much of my efforts recently,
I was thrilled this evening to find 5 goose species at the Moodie
Drive Quarry Ponds.
The main quarry pond off Moodie Drive continues with it's legendary
birding.
The sun set on a beautiful red western horizon as the calm air
provided excellent viewing conditions over the pond.
The highlight was an adult Ross's Goose and an adult Greater White-
fronted Goose.
Three Cackling Geese were also present, as were three Snow Geese - all
amongst the thousands of Canadas.
Northern Pintail, Common Merganser, Lesser Scaup, Ring-necked Duck and
Ruddy Duck were well represented.
The diversity was rounded off with smaller numbers of Gadwall,
Bufflehead, Northern Shoveler, Blue-winged Teal, Green-winged Teal,
Pied-billed Grebe and American Coot.
All observations were made after 7:45pm, from the gate off Moodie
Drive, looking east over the main pond.
Directions courtesy Neily World:
http://ca.geocities.com/[email protected]/stony8.htm
Tony Beck
http://www.tonybeck.ca
Always An Adventure
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