Today Friday Oct. 4 Bob Tyler, Margaret Liubavicius, Jenny Bull and I birded Hanlan’s and Gibraltar Points and though it was a long day it was a good day and tomorrow could be very good as well (or not).
Following are some of the birds we found. 2 Pied-billed Grebes, Great Blue Herons, Great Egret, Black-crowned Night Heron, 2 Trumpeter Swans, 14 Wood Ducks, Blue-winged Teal, Northern Shoveler, 70 Turkey Vultures, 5 Sharp-shinned Hawks, 4 Cooper’s Hawks, 2 Merlin, 2 Peregrine Falcons, Killdeer, Black-billed Cuckoo, Belted Kingfisher, 26 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers. 18 Northern Flickers, Least Flycatcher, 31 Eastern Phoebes, 200+ Blue Jays, 109 American Crows, Brown Creepers, 3 House Wrens, 10 Winter Wrens, 2 Sedge Wrens, 1 Marsh Wren, 50+ each of Golden-crowned and Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Swainson’s Thrush, Hermit Thrush, 17 Gray Catbirds, 9 Blue-headed Vireos, 1 Yellow-throated Vireo, Red-eyed Vireos, 12 Warbler species including Orang-e Crowned Northern Parula, Cape-May, Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green, Palm, Pine, Nashville, Wilson’s and only 5 Yellow-rumped Warblers, 8 Sparrow species – 2 Clay-colored Sparrows, Field Sparrow, Le-Conte’s Sparrow, 38 Song Sparrows, 8 Swamp Sparrows, 100+ White-throated Sparros, 50+ White-crowned Sparrows and 6 Dark-eyed Juncos. Kinglets, White-throated and White-crowned Sparrows were mostly undercounted as were the migrating Blue Jays. Norm Murr Richmond Hill, Ontario Sent from Mail for Windows 10 _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
