TWO DAYS OF BIRD PHOTOS: RAPTOR CENTRE, BLUFFER'S PARK & OUTSIDE HOME

   Yesterday, Sharon and I, along with her daughter Mich and boyfriend, Yosi visited Bluffer's Park in Toronto.  The park is located on the shore of Lake Ontario by the Scarborough Bluffs.  I took the following photographs at the park:

• Trumpeter Swan
• Ring-billed Gull
• Red-tailed Hawk
• Common Grackle
• Mourning Dove
• Tree Swallow
• Redwinged Blackbird
• Herring Gull
• Mallard
• Canada Goose

    One of the interesting sightings at the park was a Trumpeter Swan with wing tags. The tags were yellow with black characters: R12.  I reported this sighting to the USGS Bird Banding Laboratory.

   Another interesting sighting was the Red-tailed Hawk on the cliffs of Scarborouh Bluffs.

   Today we visited the Kortright Centre for Conservation in Woodbridge,  ON. Located at Kortright is the Canadian Peregrine Foundation's Raptor Centre.  At the centre I photographed the following raptors:

• Bald Eagle
• Great Horned Owl
• European Horned Owl
• Peregrine Falcon
• Harris Hawk
• Gyrfalcon

   These birds are in captivity, because for various reasons they could not be released into the wild.  Each of their stories is told on the Canadian Peregrine Foundation's web site:

           www.peregrine-foundation.ca

After returning home I managed photograph a few more birds:

• House Finch - Two different variants
• American Robin

OUTSIDE HOUSE IN THORNHILL, ON

ABOVE 3 PHOTOS - MALE HOUSE FINCH
REDDISH IS NORMAL COLOR, YELLOW
BIRD ON RIGHT IS YELLOW VARIANT

REAR VIEW OF AMERICAN ROBIN

RAPTOR CENTRE AT KORTRIGHT CENTRE

FOR CONSERVATION IN WOODBRIDGE, ON

ABOVE 2 PHOTOS - MALE BALD EAGLE
SOLO

FEMALE GREAT HORNED OWL
ALEX

MALE EUROPEAN HORNED OWL
BUBO



ABOVE 2 PHOTOS - MALE PEREGRINE
FALCON
OSCAR



ABOVE 2 PHOTOS - HARRIS HAWK
MAX



MALE PEREGRINE FALCON

FEMALE GYRFALCON
REMINGTON

BLUFFER'S PARK, TORONTO, ON

ABOVE 3 PHOTOS - TRUMPETER SWANS
ONE OF THE SWANS WAS TAGGED
WITH A WING MARKER

RING-BILLED GULL

RED-TAILED HAWK
NOTE REDDISH TAIL

MALE COMMON GRACKLE

MOURNING DOVE

MOST LIKELY A TREE SWALLOW,
BUT DIFFICULT TO IDENTIFY
FROM THE DISTANCE

MALE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD

 CO

HERRING GULL IN BREEDING PLUMAGE

MALE MALLARDS

CANADA GOOSE


VIEWS FROM BLUFFER'S PARK