Hi birders, Thanks to Bernie Monnette for posting the sighting. The bird was easy to find right where it was said to be. Almost too easy!
I first found it on its own at the mouth of the marina to the lake - this was at 5:45. Coordinates: 43.588668, -79.516350 But within five minutes it had swam several hundred meters west from the park and approaching a flock of Red-necked Grebes. Hugh Currie and I searched for it from the base of Twenty Eighth street for about 30 minutes only to find that it had returned to the mouth of the marina. I returned there and had great looks of the bird right up until 7:45. Photos are posted on my blog: www.alvanbuckley.blogspot.com A scope isn't necessary if the bird is in the marina but if it decides to swim out into the lake a scope may become handy. Other birds include several hundred Red-necked Grebes (I estimated 400) mostly west of the park. An Eastern Phoebe and a Pied-billed Grebe inside the marina area. good birding, Alvan Buckley Toronto, ON www.alvanbuckley.blogspot.com Directions: Colonel Sam Smith is south of Kipling and Lakeshore Blvd. Exit off the Gardiner and go south. Parking is free (but often filled with Humber students' cars) just south of the Power Station (paid parking). _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
