MUTE SWAN, MALLARD & RING-BILLED GULL, PORT CREDIT,MISSISSAUGA,ON, 9/4/2019

MUTE SWAN, PORT CREDIT, MISSISSAUGA,ON, 9/4/2019

VEERY, HIGH PARK,TORONTO,ON, 9/1/2019

NASHVILLE WARBLER, HIGH PARK,TORONTO,ON, 9/1/2019

   We can ID this warbler as a Nashville Warbler as follows:

• Small size
• Thin pointed dark bill
• Gray head
• White eyering (as much as we can see of it)
• Yellowish underparts
• Merlin photo bird ID app identified this bird as a Nashville Warbler, with no other alternatives

     The Nashville Warbler is a small bird, about 4 1/2".  It winters primarily in central and southern Mexico.  Males and females do not differ significantly in their plumage and males do not go through a major color change in the nonbreeding season.

   The Nashville Warbler is a new species to our Photographic Life List, which now stands at 919.

OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, HIGH PARK,TORONTO,ON, 9/1/2019

FEMALE & MOLTING MALE WOOD DUCKS, HIGH PARK,TORONTO,ON, 9/1/2019

   In the first photo, on the left is a male Wood Duck molting from nonbreeding to breeding plumage; the Wood Duck on the right is a female.  In the second photo the Wood Duck on the left is a female and the one on the right is a male already molted into full breeding plumage.

MALE NORTHERN FLICKER, HIGH PARK,TORONTO,ON, 9/1/2019