Long Branch Park is the area along Lake Ontario just east of Etobicoke Creek.

There are some apartments nearby which have resident pigeons:

Some balconies keep them away with these owl figures:

The real stars here are the gulls:

Other birds:

NATURE POETRY

The holly! the holly! oh, twine it with bay—
Come give the holly a song;
For it helps to drive stern winter away,
With his garment so sombre and long.                          – Eliza Cook (1818–1889)

Miles Hearn