Today at 11:30 am there were 5 Snow Geese on Reesor Pond. 2 blue morphs and 2 white morphs were together in the shallows above the southern spit (ie looking straight out) and another white morph was discovered in amongst a crowd of Canada Geese on the North-west spit.
Mallards outnumbered Canada Geese by at least 10 to 1. There were hundreds. We managed to pick out a female Bufflehead and 3 male Common Mergansers with 1 female. A couple of odd "Mallards" - one seemed merely leucistic, with an irregular white patch on his breast and smaller areas on his neck and head but otherwise normal. He was in company with a very dark duck, in size and shape identical to a mallard, dark chocolate brown all over, blackish bill, and again having a large irregular while breast. The stranger had a tiny white spot at the end of one primary, and perhaps a hint of a lighter thin band across the end of its tail. At Ravenshoe Rd. we had 4 Snowy Owls, a dozen Snow Buntings and 2 adult Bald Eagles in a bare tree near the heronry. Joyce Collier-Brown Toronto _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide
