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January 2025 Bird Walk
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Garth Riley led our January 11th walk at Humber Bay Park West. Overnight flurries gave way to blue skies and near-zero temperatures by mid-morning, making for pleasant conditions. Recent cold temperatures and light winds left the bay frozen over to about Superior Avenue. While there were no large flocks of waterfowl in the bay, there was a nice variety of birds including four species of gull and several Lesser Scaup - the less common of the two Scaup Species. A flyby Peregrine Falcon, a chorus of crows and a pair of Trumpeter Swans added to the mix.

When we reached Norris Crescent, we could see a large raft of Greater Scaup to the west. About half of the group continued west in the hope of finding the reported Tufted Duck, a rare visitor from Europe. We walked over to Lake Crescent where a few lucky people were able to pick out the Tufted Duck among the hundreds of (very similar) Greater Scaup.

By the time we left Lake Crescent, we had tallied 34 species, a total boosted by some very active feeders on Lake Crescent. Here’s the full list:
 

Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Trumpeter Swan
Gadwall
Mallard
Mallard (Domestic type)
American Black Duck
Redhead
Tufted Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Red-breasted Merganser
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
Mourning Dove
 

Here are photos of some of the birds we saw:

Ring-billed Gull
American Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Iceland Gull
Horned Grebe
Cooper's Hawk
Downy Woodpecker
Peregrine Falcon
Blue Jay
American Crow
White-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted Nuthatch
European Starling
Northern Mockingbird
House Sparrow
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Northern Cardinal
 

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