Today John Schmelefske and I birded from Grimsby to Etobicoke along the shore
of Lake Ontario.
At Grimsby Harbour at the foot of Christie the Barnacle Goose swam in and sat
for a time on the ice until it flew east with a small group of Canadas at 12.30
pm.
At McNeilly inbetween 50 Point Road and Fruitland were all 3 scoters including
6 Black (2 males) as well as three 1st-year male and a female King Eider.
Nearby a Cooper's Hawk sat in a tree along the North Service Rd.
In Windermere Basin, Hamilton, were several DC Cormorants, N Pintail, GW Teal,
N Shoveler, Am. Coot, Ring-necked Duck, + many Ruddy Duck.
Along Red Hill Creek off Eastport were 4 BC Night Herons and 8 Hooded
Mergansers.
On Hamilton Bay next to the Canadian Centre for Inland Waters were 2 adult and
2 1st-year Bald Eagles sitting on the ice close to a gull flock which included
2 adult and a 1st-year Glaucous and one adult Iceland gull.
At the Eastport lift-bridge a Peregrine Falcon surveyed the Rock Pigeon flock.
We could not find the Yellow-throated Warbler at Bronte nor the Harlequin Ducks
at Saddington Pk.
Dave Milsom
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