Song levels outside our back door are at least as loud as yesterday. A chorus
of whitethroats, fox sparrows and yellow-rumped and Nashville warblers. Winds
were light overnight allowing for easy migration. Skies are clear but misty.
Yesterday was an excellent day!
Highlights include (with mostly estimated numbers)
red-bellied woodpecker – a pair –very vocal
winter wren 2
brown creeper 10
dark-eyed junco 25
fox sparrow 8
white-throat 75
eastern towhee 3
hermit thrush 125
golden-crowned kinglet 10
ruby-crowned kinglet 50
great-crested flycatcher 2
field sparrow 2
purple finch 30 (many brightly-coloured males)
pine siskin 2
rose-breasted grosbeak 1
scarlet tanager 1 (male singing near dusk)
rusty blackbird 3 (feeding on midges high in tree tops, and later among
alders along the edge of the marsh)
Warblers
yellow-rumped 85
black-throated green 12
Nashville 5
pine 2 (one in low shrubs at eye level)
yellow 2
ovenbird 2
blackburnian 1
Cape May 1
palm 4
Directions to Thickson’s Woods Nature Reserve
To get to Thickson's Woods, Exit from #401 to Thickson Rd. S. Continue south
about 1.5 kilometres to the Waterfront Trail, where you will see a large green
sign on your left that says "Thickson's Woods Nature Reserve". Park along the
east side of Thickson Road and walk east along the Waterfront Trail about 200
metres to where a pathway enters the woods on your right. Trails lead through
the woods with two extending to the roadway on the south side of the woods
along the shore of Lake Ontario. The roadways in the woods are the property of
Thickson’s Woods Land Trust. Birder’s are welcome to walk along the roadways,
but please park outside the gate. Exceptions are made for handicapped folks
who are unable to walk about.
The entrance to the meadow portion of the reserve is on the north side of
the Waterfront Trail opposite the entrance to the woods.
The Waterfront Trail east of Thickson Road is now gated, so no
motorized vehicles can access it. Please don’t stand in the middle of the
Waterfront Trail while birding, as you may endanger cyclists and in-line
skaters, as well as yourself.
Dennis Barry & Margaret Carney
338 Crystal Beach Blvd.
Whitby, Ontario L1N 9Z7
905-725-2116
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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/
