Goldfinches Love the Meadoway: Oct. 11, 2022

from themeadoway.ca

The Meadoway is transforming a hydro corridor in Scarborough into a vibrant 16-kilometre stretch of urban greenspace and meadowlands that will become one of Canada’s largest linear urban parks.

Cyclists and pedestrians will soon be able to travel from the heart of downtown Toronto to Rouge National Urban Park without ever leaving nature.

Over the next seven years, this site will become a place filled with butterflies, birds and wildflowers – a rich meadow landscape realized on a scale never before seen in Toronto.

American Goldfinches, who are almost exclusively seed eaters and who are with us twelve months a year, are taking advantage of all of the seeds which are found in the Meadoway.

Both groups saw goldfinches today at Thomson Park which includes some of the Meadoway.

American Goldfinch
American Goldfinches
American Goldfinches
American Goldfinches
American Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
American Goldfinch

Other birds:

Black-capped Chickadee
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
European Starling
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Mallards
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Swainson’s Thrush
Swainson’s Thrush
Turkey Vulture
Swainson’s Thrush

Some botany:

Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina)
Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum)
Polypore
Brome Grass (Bromus inermis)
White Ash (Fraxinus americana)
Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)
Crab Apple (malus)
Mountain Ash (Sorbus acuparia)
Ohio Buckeye (Aesculus glabra)
Chinese Chestnut
Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum)
Queen Anne’s-lace (Daucus carota)
Dog-strangling Vine (Vincetoxicum rossicum)
Tall Sunflower (Helianthus giganteus)
Canada Goldenrod (Solidago canadense)
Tall Sunflower (Helianthus giganteus)
Indian Grass (Sorghastrum nutans)
Switch Grass (Panicum virgatum)
Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)

10am group:

1pm group:

NATURE QUOTE

“Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.” – Robert Browning

Miles Hearn

1 thought on “Goldfinches Love the Meadoway: Oct. 11, 2022

  1. Lisa Volkov

    I’ve been hiking hydro corridors for at least two decades. Wish I could live (and be able enough?) to do the “linear park” to The Rouge (I’ll be 69 on Dec.1). Wonder how long it would take to hike it? Presumable, it exists already as a series of hydro corridors. But hiking all the way from downtown Toronto to The Rouge would have been a touch, well, “challenging”, to say the least–even when I was younger!

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *