While hiking with my birding-friendly golden retriever on the outskirts of Newmarket Saturday morning I observed numerous migrants. There were scores of sparrows feeding in the fields of goldenrod and aster - most of them White-crowned and White-throated but also at least eight Song Sparrows and two Field Sparrows. Also had a half dozen Ruby-crowned Kinglets, ten or more Yellow-rumped Warblers, two Nashville Warblers, an Eastern Meadowlark, an Eastern Phoebe, and - in a coniferous stand - dozens of Golden-crowned Kinglets.
Eleanor Thompson had Eastern Bluebirds at her property in SW Newmarket the same day, just west of Bathurst Street and south of Mulock. Ron Fleming Newmarket is directly north of Toronto, about halfway to Barrie. _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
