Good evening, especially you Winter listers. This afternoon between 3pm and 3:30pm Margaret Liubavicius, Steven Favier and I found 2 Red-throated Loons on Lake Ontario beside the entrance Causeway. One of these 2 Loons is a POSSIBLE, remember I said possible, Pacific Loon. We did not have a telescope with us and were using our binoculars only so the I. D. of the one bird is shaky. If not a Pacific then surely a Red-throated Loon. I mention this hoping someone will go out tomorrow with a scope and hopefully refind this bird for a positive I.D. one way or the other. In the same area were 2 Red-necked Grebes and on The Causeway a Yellow-rumped Warbler was observed.
Other birds out there included Great Blue Herons, Ring-necked Ducks, 2 American Coots (on the Yacht Club side of The Causeway), and a Common Loon off Pipit Point. Good luck if you go out. PS - The causeway is the area between the second gate and the left turn onto the outer arm. Directions: LESLIE STREET SPIT (TOMMY THOMPSON PARK) IN TORONTO To get to "The Spit" from Queen & Yonge Sts. Take the Queen Street Car #501 east to Leslie St. and walk south (about 2 km) or as far as you can go on Leslie St. at Unwin Ave. and you will see the gate and signage. You may also catch the Jones Bus #83 at the Donlands Subway Station or transfer to it at Queen St. and Jones Ave. and take it to Leslie St. And Commissioner St. (on Saturday only). By automobile you may drive to Lakeshore Blvd and Leslie St. then south to The Spit. You can park either on Leslie St. or Unwin Ave. You may also park in the parking lot inside the main gate after 9 am. Be sure to observe the parking lot closing time as if you are not out by then your auto will be locked in until the following day. — THE PARKING LOT AND ALL GATES WILL BE LOCKED AT 4:30PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE:- The official hours for The Spit are 9 am to 4:30 pm (weekends and holidays only of course) but the unofficial hours are sunup to sundown. To date no one has questioned any birder, jogger, cyclist, etc. about the use of The Spit from sunup to sundown. The spit is only open on the weekends and on holidays, at other times you will not be able to access the area. This area is extensive, 7 km to the tip, but be prepared to walk more than that. The Spit is only open on the weekends and holidays because they are still building it. Norm Murr Richmond Hill, ON S'ils te mordent, mords les --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Eliminate annoying spam! My mailbox is protected by iHateSpam, the #1-rated spam buster." http://www.ihatespam.net
