Hi All, A quick trip up to the north end of Bathurst Street on Saturday afternoon resulted in a few dabbling ducks (300+ Northern Pintail & 200+ Green-winged Teal) as well as 5 Tundra Swans and a Vesper Sparrow (seemed early, so thought I should mention it). Also, several raptors were seen including 2 Turkey Vulture, 2 Northern Harriers and 4 Red-tailed Hawks. These birds were all along Hochreiter Road, which runs west off Bathurst, north & east of Bradford.
The standout for me though, was on the way home, at about 3pm at the very busy corner of Hwy 7 & Leslie Street in south Richmond Hill, a very dark Red-tailed Hawk. The bird was sitting in the lone small tree in the south-east quadrant of the intersection. Comparing to Sibley's Guide, the bird was definitely an "Intermediate" Western morph of the Red-tailed Hawk, with a beautiful dark brown (almost black) body and a nice bright rufous tail. Good birding, Frank Pinilla Thornhill, ON DIRECTIONS: The north end of Bathurst, which dead-ends at the Holland River, is found in eastern Bradford (north of Newmarket) where Bathurst intersects with Yonge Street (Yonge turns west here through Bradford), go north on Bathurst from this intersection, about 2km up, Hochreiter Road runs west off Bathurst and dead-ends in a very wet area, where the ducks/swans were as well as many calling frogs.
