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Durham Region & Lake Ontario MarshesTop
Durham Region & Lake Ontario Marshes
Early Fall migrant warblers, vireos, flycatchers, shorebirds, and butterflies.
Previous trip reports
High ParkTop
Toronto’s High Park by Bob Yukich. OFO News 13:3, October 1995.
Leslie Street Spit
Tommy Thompson ParkTop
Leslie Street Spit
Tommy Thompson Park
The Bird Checklist, 3rd Edition, 2006, is available from the Toronto Region Conservation
Authority, or may be downloaded from the Friends of the Spit
website.
Leslie Street Spit – Toronto’s Pelee by Norm Murr. OFO News 15:3, October 1997.
Previous trip reports
Palgrave, Schomberg, TottenhamTop
Palgrave, Schomberg, Tottenham
Fall migrants ‐ warblers, flycatchers, shorebirds. Possible plovers, Buff‐breasted Sandpipers, Baird’s Sandpipers.
Reesor PondTop
Reesor Pond
Markham’s Reesor Pond by Stan Long. OFO News 25:2, June 2007.
Second MarshTop
A Birder’s Guide to Second Marsh Wildlife Area, McLaughlin Bay Wildlife Reserve, and Surroundings by Jim Richards.
OFO Birding Guide #7 from Ontario Birds 17:3, December 1999.
Thickson’s WoodsTop
Thickson’s Woods
A Birding Site Guide to Thickson‘s Woods, Whitby by Margaret Bain.
From Ontario Birds 1:1, April 1983.
Toronto Waterfront & IslandsTop
Toronto Waterfront & Islands
Off the QEW, coming from the west, take the exit to Park Lawn. Go south. Cross Lakeshore Road, then turn right to the parking area. Off the QEW, coming from the east, exit at Lakeshore Road. Turn right onto Lakeshore Road, then left at the lights into Humber Bay Park East.
From Harbourfront in Toronto, catch 7.15 a.m. ferry to Ward’s Island. You will need $6.50 in coins ($4.00 seniors).
Early Fall migrants. Winter species: ducks, gulls, waterbirds, finches, raptors.
The Toronto Islands by Norm Murr. OFO News 17:1, February 1999.