This morning Bill Smith and I had planned a visit to Toronto Islands to look for migrating sparrows and at the last minute opted instead for Long Point. We spent all our time from 9 until 1.30 on Hastings Rd. (which I incorrectly called Holstein Rd. in my Monday posting) other than a quick trip to the overflow park (which was empty) to look for Fox Sparrow. Following is a list of the 60 species we found along this short dead- end road ; Double-crested Cormorant - Pied-billed Grebe-Great Blur Heron - Turkey Vulture - Canada Goose - Mute Swan - Wood Duck - American Widgeon - Mallard - Northern Shoveler - Bald Eagle - Northern Harrier - Red-tailed Hawk - American Kestrel - American coot - Ring-billed Gull-Herring Gull - Rock Dove - Mourning Dove - Red-headed Woodpecker - Red-bellied Woodpecker - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Downey Woodpecker - Northern Flicker - Eastern Phoebe - Blue Jay - American Crow - Black-capped Chickadee - Brown Creeper - Winter Wren - Golden-crowned and Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Eastern Bluebird - Gray-cheeked and Hermit Thrush - American Robin - Gray Catbird - Brown Thrasher - Cedar Waxwing - European Starling - Orange-crowned- Yellow-rumped and Palm Warblers - Eastern Towhee - American Tree - Chipping - Field - Savannah - Song - Lincoln's - Swamp - White-throated and White-crowned Sparrows - Dark-eyed Junco - Northern Cardinal - Red-winged Blackbird - Common Grackle - Brown-headed Cowbird = American Goldfinch - House Sparrow. We also saw huge flocks of 5000 plus mixed Black Birds on St. John's Rd. just outside Simcoe. Directions:Hastings Road runs west off the Causeway where it dead ends at Lakeshore Rd. in front of the restaurant. Weather overcast - temperature 49 F - wind S.W. 10/15 Km.
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