Tycho comes by at sunset to say hello. © BCP 2010 As I mentioned in an earlier post, our much-loved local swan pair, Penny and Tycho, have set up housekeeping this spring in a new location, moving their nest from the little point across from the boardwalk where Ashbridge’s Bay Yacht Club has its picnic […]
Western grebe at Colonel Sam Smith Park on the weekend. © BCP 2010 You could practically hear all the Tweets in the air Sunday, after a Western grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis) was spotted in the inner bay of Colonel Sam Smith Park near the lakeshore campus of Humber College. Tweets, of course, are today’s version of […]
A lone double-crested cormorant skims through the inner bay at Ashbridge’s. The double-crested cormorants have come back to Lake Ontario, but so far there are only a few advance troops. They are still absent in the huge numbers that will eventually be here, when the migrating flocks get this far. But I have seen a […]
So much for the recession. There’s still a building boom going on in Toronto, and it’s not just swanky condos for humans. Above is a picture I took a weekend ago at Tommy Thompson Park, near the metal footbridge about halfway out to the lighthouse. If you look closely at the trees in the photo, […]
What an interesting few days we have had at the bay. Yesterday the cormorants returned. Monday they weren’t there, Tuesday they were. One day, they just magically show up — just like that. Back from wherever they spent their winters. Northern Mexico, Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, it looks like, if I’m reading my Smithsonian handbook […]
