Hot Summer Days - July 2025

July 10, 2025, Komoka North

It was lovely seeing the Mute Swans this morning.  They have five young.  I saw a few Eastern Bluebirds, Catbirds, Northern House Wrens, Northern Flicker, Common Yellowthroats, Eastern Kingbirds, Great Egrets, Great Blue Herons, Wood Ducks, Barn Swallows, Northern Rough-winged Swallows, Belted Kingfisher, Field Sparrows, Song Sparrows, Killdeers, Spotted Sandpipers, Savannah Sparrows and an Osprey.

Not many butterflies and dragonflies - Common Wood-Nymphs, Little Wood Satyr, Cabbage Whites, Halloween Pennant, Widow Skimmers, Common Whitetails and Blue-fronted Dancers.

Mute Swans with 5 young

Eastern Kingbird

Northern Flicker

Eastern Bluebird

Blue-fronted Dancer

Widow Skimmer

July 12, 2025, Airport, Fanshawe Pond

At the airport, there were many Mourning Doves, adults and young and also many young starlings.  I saw an Osprey, Turkey Vulture, Barn Swallows, Eastern Meadowlarks, Grasshopper Sparrows, Savannah Sparrows, Song Sparrows, Red-winged Blackbirds, American Goldfinches, Killdeers, American Robins and Common Grackles.

The area of weeds and long grasses where I see some butterflies has been mowed down.

Mourning Dove

Savannah Sparrow

Oprey

Fanshawe Pond.  There were 2 Monarchs, Cabbage Whites, and lots of Common Whitetails.

Pied-billed Grebe

Short-billed Dowitchers

Birding End of October 2022

I went to a few places at the end of the week into the weekend.  Still seeing migrating birds lingering around....Yellow-rumped Warblers, Red-winged Blackbirds, and Field Sparrows.  A lot of American Robins this week and Cedar Waxwings.    

Pied-billed Grebe

There were 2 Hermit Thrushes in the bush and birds eating weed seeds -  Black-capped Chickadees, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Golden-crowned Kinglets, American Goldfinches, White-throated Sparrows, House Finches, and Song Sparrows.  It's so nice to see American Tree Sparrows, Purple Finches, and Dark-eyed Juncos. 

Hermit Thrush

Four crows were making a fuss together.  

Cute little birds....Brown Creepers, Red-breasted Nuthatches and White-breasted Nuthatches were seen this week also.

Red-tailed Hawk

Still a few Turkey Vultures around.  I always miss them when they are gone over the winter.  

Start of April - Looking for Ducks

Not too many sunny days lately.  Still cool temperatures with some strong winds one day.  A few days, we had some light snow on the ground.

I went to a few places close by....Greenway Park and Hyde Park.

I'm mainly looking for ducks.  At Greenway, there were Common Mergansers, Hooded Mergansers, Wood Ducks, American Black Ducks, Mallards, 2 Pied-billed Grebes.  

Poor photo of the Pied-billed Grebes.

Wood Duck

Wood Duck

Lots of Song Sparrows along the river singing.

Another poor photo - Hooded Mergansers.

A wetland north of London, I found 9 Blue-winged Teals.  A nice looking duck.

Red-tailed Hawk

I managed to get a photo of the Vesper Sparrow.  It kept moving around.

Recent Outings

 April 21, 2021

I have been out birding this past weekend and this week.  The weather was nice but it turned cold...had snow on the ground this morning.  It snowed off and on today.  So far, I've had no luck finding bird migrants.

Here is a short post showing the variety of birds I saw in the woods and at ponds.

Blue Jay

Turkey Vultures

Northern Flickers

I also saw Common Grackles, Robins, Cardinals, Goldfinches, Cedar Waxwings, Ospreys, Red-tailed Hawks, Song Sparrows, Killdeers, Canada Geese, Belted Kingfisher, Crows, Mourning Doves, and Mallards.

Ring-necked Ducks

Pied-billed Grebe

Brown-headed Cowbird

Wood Ducks (male and female)

Wood Duck

Downy Woodpecker

Red-winged Blackbird  (female)

Last Week of October Birding

I haven't seen any unusual birds lately.  I've been watching birds in their activity migrating.  Here is what I saw the last week of October.  I will list some birds I saw.  I hope this is not too boring to read.

Hyde Park - Saturday, October 26, 2019

Today was a cool day and sunny.  I went to the Hyde Park area to see what was around.  There were a couple of Great Blue Herons, Mallards, Canada Geese, Pied-billed Grebe, Double-crested Cormorant, American Robins and a couple of Turkey Vultures flew over.

Great Blue Heron

Ring-necked Duck

Pied-billed Grebe

American Robins and some young

The Coves - Monday, October 28, 2919

The day started off cool 2c but warmed up by noon and sunny, There was a flurry of American Robins and Cedar Waxwings along with Ruby-crowned Kinglets, American Goldfinch, and a Carolina Wren.
I went over the Greenway Park and saw Turkey Vultures, American Goldfinch, White-throated Sparrows, Song Sparrows, American Robins and Northern Cardinals.  As I was walking a White-tailed Deer came out of the bush followed by two more right in front of me.  

Hyde Park - Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Today was a beautiful day warming up to 13c but cloudy.  There was a movement of American Robins going through - flybys or landing in the trees.  There were for sure over 75...I lost count.  With the Robins there were also some Cedar Waxwings and Red-winged Blackbirds.  There was a big flock of Starlings in one tree.  At the pond, Canada Geese, Mallards, Great Blue Heron, Double-crested Cormorants, Ring-billed Gulls and a Pied-billed Grebe.  

There were some Blue Jays flying over, American Goldfinches and saw a White-breasted Nuthatch.