Colonel Sam Smith Park in Toronto this afternoon and within 20 minutes a Peregrine Falcon made an appearance and I managed to get a few photographs of this gorgeous falcon!
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Birding Colonel Sam Smith Park in Toronto includes the first wetlands wildlife restoration trail on the Great Lakes. The parks wetland habitat is home to a vast array of song birds, waterfowl, ducks, geese and even a few local birds of prey.
Colonel Sam Smith Park
Birding Colonel Sam Smith Park in Toronto includes the first wetlands wildlife restoration trail on the Great Lakes. The parks wetland habitat is home to a vast array of song birds, waterfowl, ducks, geese and even a few local birds of prey.
Colonel Sam Smith Park’s south pond hosts everything for the bird watcher and photographer, from migratory waterfowl, Lesser Scaup, mute swans, red-winged blackbird, tree swallows, gadwalls, red-neck grebe, ring-billed gulls, horned grebe to the common loon. Many other species of birds are watched and photographed here including the yellow warbler, eastern phoebe, many different species of sparrows. Red-winged blackbirds are also a regular sight as well as American goldfinch, yellow warbler, rose-breasted grosbeak, whip-poor-will, scarlet tanager, palm warbler and black-throated green warblers. Too many birds to list here!
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Peregrine Falcon Colonel Sam Smith Park Toronto
March 1st, 2008 by Rob McKay
Female Coopers Hawk
June 22nd, 2007 by Rob McKay
A quick trip to Colonel Sam Smith Park in Toronto and a tip from a friend led me to this immature female coopers hawk. I found her happily preening at first….