Near the end of the Christmas bird count in Toronto sector 15, an adult male Harlequin duck was found close to a group of about 200 gulls on the rocks off the foot of Wineva Ave, about half way between Woodbine and Victoria Park.
>From the west the Gardiner Expressway becomes Lakeshore, which ends by curving >into Woodbine. Turn right on Queen at the first lights. Turn right on >Wineva, at the 4th lights; go to the end, look for a place to park, walk to >the boardwalk and look along the water's edge. >From the east, turn left off Kingston Rd on Fallingbrook. At the end go right >on Queen for about a kilometer - turn left at the bottom of the hill on Glen >Manor - go to the end, park, and walk to the boardwalk. Good luck. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Dec 17 20:23:42 2006 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from mail.wzrd.com (mail.wzrd.com [216.207.4.8]) by king.hwcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52935634B7 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:23:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from STUDY (pm4-ppp043.dialup.wzrd.com [24.75.4.189]) by mail.wzrd.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBI1NBJU003198; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:23:28 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Willie D'Anna & Betsy Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geneseebirds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "OntBirds" <[email protected]>, "NYSBirds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Suggs, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:23:18 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-SMTP-Vilter-Version: 1.3.2 Subject: [Ontbirds]Slaty-backed Gull - NOT Seen X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:23:43 -0000 Betsy, Vicki Rothman, and I participated in the Buffalo CBC today. Our area consisted of the Niagara River around the falls, from the Ontario side. We looked hard for the Slaty-backed Gull as did several other folks without any luck. Gull numbers were up from what were reported during the week. However, white-winged gulls were still in paltry numbers. Lesser Black-backed Gulls have been relatively scarce this fall and today we only had three. A few highlights of our day: Our first CBC Ruby-crowned Kinglet at the pulloff below the control gates. 1 adult Peregrine Falcon finishing up his pigeon dinner on the power station below the falls 34 Tundra Swans above the control gates 3 Pintails - one above the control gates; 2 in the rocks below the barge 1 American Coot at Dufferin Islands 3 Purple Sandpipers just above the barge (thanks to Peter Yoerg for the phone call on these!) 1460 Bonaparte's Gulls 8070 Herring Gulls 2 Iceland gulls 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls 1 Tufted Titmouse - Thomas Street 1 Carolina Wren - Thomas Street Good birding! Willie ---------------- Willie D'Anna Betsy Potter Wilson, NY [EMAIL PROTECTED]
