A cool, partially sunny morning on April 26 brought some excellent warblers into Thickson's Woods, Whitby. To have a down-low tail-wagging Palm Warbler pose for 5 minutes, to see a head-high Pine Warbler sing while holding a piece of cone in its beak, to have a sun-basking Black-throated Warbler on a nearby limb, and to appreciate the likes of Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Blue-headed Vireo, Purple Finch, Eastern Towhee, Chipping Sparrow and Rose-breasted Grosbeak, among others, we hope is a precursor to incoming songbird migrants arriving off Lake Ontario.
2 Virginia Rails were seen at nearby Corbett Creek. Access from the 401 onto Thickson Rd.South in east Whitby; drive straight down towards the lake, turning left before you reach the wooded area on your left. Doug Lockrey, Whitby
