These savannahs are the remnants of the sand prairie system that once covered much of the Ontario, Canada’s landscape, a perfect bird watching and photography location in the GTA.
High Park is the largest park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It spans 161 hectares or 398 acres, in Toronto’s west end. A variety of waterfowl can be seen and photographed here as well as, herons and great egrets and plenty of song birds. Two other ponds are located in High Park and the famous Hawk Hill. Many bird watchers gather at hawk hill in the fall for migrating raptors (birds of prey) and official counts are taken. Sightings in this area include eagles, red tailed hawks, broad wing, coopers, sharp shinned, peregrines falcons, merlins and other species of raptors. High park is large and you will need more than one day to cover all its nooks and crannies. A perfect location for bird watching and birding photography in the GTA.
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June 9th, 2007 by Rob McKay
We had a huge down pour of rain the day before here in Toronto and today all the catfish in the southeast pond seemed to be at the surface gasping for air. The night herons and great white egrets took full advantage of this and started to gorge on the dieing fish. I have never seen so many night herons in one spot at one time. The east shores tree line was packed full of night herons and to the north was at least 8 great white egrets.
