Saturday, August 17, 2024

15 August 2024 Toronto: Humber Bay Park

 


Our excursion into the Humber Bay Park  was a birding bonus as the above picture illustrates.  It was a bird-dense area with a couple of life birds, the trumpeter swan seen above and the red necked merganser.  The park is getting renovated with stabilization to the shore line and reworking the paths so the park is segmented into different areas.  Since we did not know where we were going we just wandered about and that worked just fine for us.  It was a great stroll and the weather was almost hot when in the direct sunlight


Past the tall buildings


With their fancy architectural accents


Past the ivy covered building


Past the noisy construction work


To the water's edge


The birds start.  Here is a Robin


Nature!


Red winged Blackbird (LB)


Females also have the red patch on their wings


A memorial sundial


In memory of a bombing of and Air India Plane out of Montreal in 1985


The names were listed here


A large body of water with a over water walkway


The red necked grebe (LB)


When in Canada, see Canada Geese


Double crested coormorants


In the bright sun


Cormorant in the slime


More grebes 


Gully!


The other side of the walkway


Queen Anne's lace


We have made it to the end of the park


Barn Swallow bids us farewell


It has been 2 years and 71 days since we began our Migration