This afternoon I found a Tufted Titmouse feeding among a loose flock of Black-capped Chickadees adjacent to a small marsh upstream from the mouth of an unnamed creek that flows into Lake Ontario on east edge of Rattray Marsh. It was in the large birch (the only one) on the west side of marsh and is visible from east side which is technically the east edge of Jack Darling park. The house directly across the marsh from birch has several bird feeders; that would be the logical place to start looking. Other interesting birds were a Swamp Sparrow in the marsh near titmouse, and a Carolina and Winter Wren dense overgrown shrubbery on the se corner of lower Rattray Marsh. The woods are literally crawing with chickadees with a good assortment of Golden-crowned Kinglets, Brown Creepers, Dark-eyed Juncoes, Cedar Waxings and few American Robins.
Directions: access the west end of Jack Darling park from the south end of Parkside Drive which runs south of Lakeshore about a km west of the Erin Mills Parkway junction; drive down to the end and park, the viewing point is only about 80 meters west (past the plastic Santa face on the fence!). Wayne Renaud
