Yesterday April 25th Bob Tyler and I birded the Toronto Islands but not in the all day sunny weather forecast but in the usual now of March weather but we did find some nice birds including the following.
Common Loon, Horned Grebe, Wood Ducks, Gadwalls, Canvasbacks, Lesser Scaup, White-winged Scoters, Turkey Vultures, Sharp-shinned, Cooper’s and Broad-winged Hawks and a nice close overhead Northern Goshawk, Virginia Rail, Killdeer, Spotted Sandpipers, Caspian and Common Terns, 100+ Chimney Swifts, Belted Kingfisher, 2 Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, Northern Flickers, Eastern Phoebe, Tree, Barn and Cliff Swallows, White-breasted Nuthatches, House and Winter Wrens, both Kinglets, Hermit Thrushes, Northern Mockingbird, Brown Thrashers, a flock of Cedar Waxwings, Yellow-rumped Warblers, 4 Pine Warblers, Chipping, Field, Song and White-throated Sparrows and 2 close encounters with 2 Grasshopper Sparrows on the green grass right in front of us. We also missed some birds reported to us by others such as Blue-headed Vireo, Black-throated Green Warbler, Eastern Towhee and Savannah Sparrow. Migration is slowly moving along despite the weather and hopefully most of the migrants don’t end up flying right over and past Southern Ontario to catch up. PS – We also checked the beach on Hanlan’s and no Piping Plover yet, at least we didn’t find any. Norm Murr Richmond Hill, ON Sent from Mail for Windows 10 _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - 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 Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
