Nothing rare, but although overall numbers of ducks were low, there
was a nice selection: a number of hooded mergansers (m & f, some
apparently paired); a number of common merg's; one red-breasted merg;
large numbers of long-tail (m&f), a few redheads, gr scaup (m&f),
common goldeneye, am widgeon, gadwall, and many many bufflehead. There
were 2 tagged trumpeters over on the West Humber side of the creek
outlet, along with a few mute swans. There were a couple of greater
black-backed gulls , one herring gull, and of course zilions of
ring-billed. One northern mockingbird made a fly-through from the park
in towards the shore to the North of the duckwalks.
(Oh yeah, there were a few mallards and canada geese as well, along
with the resident pair of domestic geese.)
The beavers have really been busy --- several large cottonwoods which
had been wrapped in wire mesh have had the mesh removed and the trees
felled and in some cases de-limbed and stripped.
Professor Gene Denzel
Information Technology Program
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
York University 416-736-5250
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