Hello ontbirders,
Ian Cannell and I embarked on an outing to Thickson's this morning (after a
great long weekend at Pelee) to find a pretty good number of birds about.
The highlight being a female red morph Summer Tanager which gave us good
looks out on the residential street south of the woods.
In the woods, a female Canada warbler and a very vocal male Golden-Winged
which we found three times during the morning. 18 species in total, which
also included a singing Orange-Crowned and a couple of Tennessee warblers.
Yellow-Rumped warblers were everywhere. We did have three species of Vireo
(Warbling, Blue-Headed and Red-Eyed). I suspect I heard the Philadelphia
reported yesterday, but it was in the distance and didn't sing for long. The
Red-Bellied Woodpecker and Great-Horned Owls were of course present.
We did take a look for the Least Bittern by the second arm of Corbett Creek
to no avail.
Good birding!
Jay Peterson
High Park, Toronto
Thickson's woods is at the south end of Thickson Road in Whitby, accessible
from the 401.
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