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Red-tailed Hawk! At Bloor & Christie

While I was looking at it two separate groups of children with parents also stopped to admire the hawk.

The squirrels were being very impertinent.

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Is it snowing? Raining? Snaining? Whatever it is, the dark-eyed juncos are happy to be out in it and have arrived for an evening snack.

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And yes, the dark-eyed juncos are loving this. Ms. Cardinal also just dropped by to arch a bright red eyebrow at me as she peered through the window.

https://status.nevillepark.ca/@nev/statuses/01KKKXNP8R25ABJCA1GRWZ0TTN

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Winter ducks from this afternoon!

Much of the lake this side of the breakwater is frozen, so there weren't many spots to see ducks. Still, there were mergansers and goldeneyes (I think) as well as the ever-present mallards and swans. The view was beautiful in a cold austere way.

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woke up to cardinal's PEWWW, PEWWW, PEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEW "star wars space battle" call

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Saw some hawk flapping around and heard a totally new bird call which Merlin identified as a Cooper's hawk? At first I assumed it was the call of a red-tailed hawk because, well, they're the only hawks I've ever seen around here, but it was neither MAJESTIC BALD EAGLE CRY or Clinically Depressed Seagull. It was more...mewing? Alas I forgot to save the recording. The bird was apparently right over my building so I couldn't actually see it, just hear it.

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Heard MAJESTIC BALD EAGLE cry 🇺🇸 and ran to the window to catch a very low *triple* red-tailed hawk flyby!

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Needless to say, the dark-eyed juncos are having the time of their lives today

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fluffy junco

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- 20-30 cm snowfall forecast, has been snowing heavily all night, schools closed
- one (1) photon from the Sun hits the building
- I hear the gentle *bonk* of an impatient dark-eyed junco pecking at the windowsill

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the house finches (_Haemorhous mexicanus_) are back!

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capping off 2025 with one last Feeding of the Juncos (who are absolutely loving the "snowing sideways" weather right now)

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Nearly every other living thing is huddled inside today, but the juncos are living it up!

They are the bird version of that guy who's outside in a T-shirt and shorts when it's 0°C out.

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the rain turned to snow and I swear *instantly* the juncos appeared

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it's snowing where the fuck are my juncos

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Windowsill visitors: dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis), white-throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis), black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus). Wish I'd gotten the chickadee's face but you know how they are, they only land for an instant!

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#BREAKING: the dark-eyed juncos are back!!!

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Woodpecker! In the Tree In the Garden #BirdCallOut

Like I've seen them before and even on adjoining properties but never actually in one of the trees in the yard!! It scooted up and down the trunk a bunch and fed particularly from one crevice before taking off.

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found another seagull

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VERY INTERESTING #BIRDEING UPDATE: for the first time ever, a red-winged blackbird has come by to sample the sunflower seeds!

Oh man!! Having coffee in the garden when a very large and splendid swallowtail butterfly flutters in, and is seemingly about to land on a young cup plant when—a blue blur out of nowhere! The blue jay just barely misses. It sits on the fence looking back at me like, "What?"

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TWO red tailed hawks just flew overhead and landed on the edifice of Queen's Park!!!

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the house finch couple has been returning regularly

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A house finch (_Haemorhous mexicanus_) couple dropped by at the same time as the cardinal couple! (About 10 seconds after I put out sunflower seeds.)

The cardinals seemed more tolerant of the house finches than of the house sparrows, whom they will hiss angrily at, like cats, and chase away from the windowsill.

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cardinal couple: *scared of humans*
cardinals: *chirping extremely loudly every time they visit the windowsill*
*i look at them*
cardinals:

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speaking as a spider person the hardest thing about identifying birds to family is that they all have the same number of eyes and mostly they're arranged the same

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a starling is making its amazing noises in the vacant lot behind my building ^_^

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The light fixtures outside the Tommy Thompson Park Nature Centre are surrounded by the mud nests of cliff swallows (_Petrochelidon pyrrhonota_). Every now and then one would peek its little head out. My sister and I assumed they were chicks waiting to be fed and were baby-talking to one of them when it suddenly launched itself out of the nest and flew right over our heads. We screamed and ran away. It turns out this is what the adults look like.

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just got back from a day out at Tommy Thompson Park with my sister! it was a great bird day. we were jumpscared by swallows and heard a truly bizarre bird which is apparently a bobolink. but for my money the best sighting was this canada goose sleeping perfectly snugly on this concrete pillar

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Excuse me!!!

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I also got the best chickadee pic of my life (second, inferior one is for comparison)

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oh! the other day, near Queen St. W. and Close, I saw some sort of bird of prey chasing pigeons, harrying them, almost catching one before its energy ran out and it retired to a tree. it was rather small, surprisingly close in size to the pigeons. it had dark speckles on its breast and a barred tail. a young red-tailed hawk? or something else? probably impossible to tell without a good photo, i know.

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On my way to get groceries, came across a juvenile pigeon outside Lucky Supermarket on Queen W.!

Thanks to that baby bird flowchart (https://wildlifecenter.org/help-advice/healthy-young-wildlife/if-you-find-baby-bird) I knew was a fledgling and its parents were likely close by, and indeed just as I was walking away a adult pigeon swooped down to check on it, and the fledgling began begging it for food. Good luck little buddy.

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going through photos from the ol' Canon SD 1000 again. enjoy my stellar bird photography

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In honour of #WorldGothDay, here's a goth squirrel in Trinity-Bellwoods pondering the darkness of life (fig. 1) after watching a hawk just fucking murder a bird, and not a small one, in that very tree (fig. 2) and fly off with it after being mobbed by the bird's angry friends.

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Some great #birdeing (and terrible bird pics) at Trinity-Bellwoods today.

1. Sparrow-sized light-brown bird in the low mess of grapevine and Virginia creeper. It had yellow on its belly, though you can't see it in the picture.

2. Speckly-breasted brown and white bird somewhat larger than a sparrow, I think I've seen it before but the name escapes me.

3. A very fat squirrel who I found staring at me when I zoomed out from the bird.

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Some great #birdeing at Osgoode Hall today. A kinglet of some kind I don't really know the different kinds; a whole bunch of unusually stripy sparrows that I think were white-throated sparrows; a woodpecker!

Look, I'm not a bird photographer ok

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Red-tailed Hawk! At King & Dufferin

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I also saw some Fancy Ducks the other day at Ontario Place. They were black with white markings on their heads. Yes, these were the best photos.

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