Here are 15 bird and 5 plant photos that I have posted during the last week. I will give the identifications at the end of the post.
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#2
#3
#4
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10
#11
#12
#13
#14
#15
#16
#17
#18
#19
#20
ANSWERS
#1 Buffleheads (male)
#2 Hooded Merganser (female)
#3 Red-tailed Hawk
#4 Dark-eyed Junco (male)
#5 Fox Sparrow
#6 Long-tailed Duck (male)
#7 Black-capped Chickadee
#8 Eastern Bluebird (male)
#9 Pied-billed Grebe
#10 American Goldfinch
#11 American Coot
#12 Blue Jay
#13 American Pipit
#14 Trumpeter Swan
#15 Cedar Waxwing
#16 Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina)
#17 Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
#18 Norway Maple (Acer platanoides)
#19 Phragmites (Phragmites australis)
#20 Manitoba Maple (Acer negundo)
Miles Hearn
Well, I can say one thing for sure–I certainly had no trouble identifying the final entry!
Myles, Thanks for the quiz!
Update re closed washrooms at Scarborough Bluffs. A friend wrote to Councillor Crawford whose office staff responded. Councillors are very vulnerable on this topic of closed washrooms in winter so always good that we complain to them. Here is his answer:
“Parks staff have advised: Yes, the west washrooms will be open all season, the east are closed for the season. However there was an issue this weekend that just pasted as the contractors that are responsible for cleaning and opening the washrooms seem to have failed to do so. This issue should not happen again.”
I love these quizzes. Keep them coming!