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