



Humber Bay is the best place to see winter ducks, geese, swans and gulls.
Here is today’s group on an overcast, 0 degree and icy morning:

We were rewarded with all three merganser species:



a Goldeneye who let us get very close:


Two swan species:


and the following:







Some land birds:


and a gull usually found here only in winter:



Species list: trumpeter swan, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard, gadwall, American black duck, redhead, bufflehead, greater scaup, long-tailed duck, common goldeneye, white-winged scoter, hooded merganser, red-breasted merganser, common merganser, great black-backed gull, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, mourning dove, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, European starling, house sparrow, northern cardinal. (24 species)
NATURE POETRY
“Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.”
– Victor Hugo (1802–85)
Miles Hearn