[Ontbirds]base of the Leslie Street Spit - Orange-crowned Warbler, Clay-coloured Sparrow, etc.

[Robert Donohue]

A quick late afternoon trip to the base of the Leslie Street
Spit today produced a fairly good assortment of migrants. We located 11 warbler
species (Orange-crowned Warbler in the dogwood thicket directly north of the
wet woods, two Northern Parulas, Northern Waterthrush, Black-throated Blue
Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, and
numerous Nashville, Yellow-rumped, Yellow, and Palm Warblers), 7 sparrow
species (numerous White-throated, Song, and Swamp Sparrows, two Lincoln's
Sparrows, one White-crowned Sparrow, one Field Sparrow, and one Clay-coloured
Sparrow feeding in the catkins in the thicket towards the bridge on Unwin
Avenue), both Baltimore and Orchard Orioles, Eastern Meadowlark, Least
Flycatchers, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Warbling Vireos, the resident pair of
Blue-grey Gnatcatchers, Great Egret, and Green Heron. The Rusty Blackbirds and
Solitary Sandpipers that had been present nearly all week have seemingly moved
on. 



I should also note that I was at Paletta
 Park early this morning,
and while I didn't locate the White-eyed Vireo or Worm-eating Warbler, I did
find a gorgeous Golden-winged Warbler feeding and singing high in the willows
along the creek.



The Baselands are loacted at the foot of Leslie Street in Toronto, and include the fields, thickets,
and wet woods south of Unwin
  Avenue. You can park either at the base of Leslie Street and
enter through the east side, or on Unwin
  Avenue by the blocked bridge and enter through the
west side. Paletta Park is located on the south side of Lakeshore just
west of Appleby Line in Burlington.




Rob Cumming.


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