FEMALE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD, DUCK PONDS, HIGH PARK, TORONTO, ONTARIO, 7/6/2023

 

ECLIPSE MALE, FEMALE, DUCKLING & IMMATURE WOOD DUCKS, DUCK PONDS, HIGH PARK, TORONTO, ONTARIO, 7/6/2023

   The photos show adult male and female Wood Ducks, an immature Wood Duck and ducklings as follows:

• Photos 1, 2 & 4- female Wood Ducks
• Photo 3 - Adult wood ducks are on the rocks and ducklings on grass to the right of rocks
• Photo 5 - Male Wood Duck in eclipse plumage
• Last Photo - Immature Wood Duck

 

BANDED PIPING PLOVER CHICK, PRESQU'ILE PROVINCIAL PARK, BRIGHTON, ONTARIO, 7/2/2023

   This Piping Plover chick has three bands, two colored bands on its left leg and on its right leg, a USGS aluminum band with a unique 9-digit number (which couldn't be read in the photos).  The chicks are banded between five and sixteen days of age.  Every sibling in a brood gets the same colors (2 or 3).  

    The colored bands allow recognition of individuals from a distance.  The orange band indicates that the bird is from the Great Lakes.

 

EASTERN PHOEBE, PRESQU'ILE PROVINCIAL PARK, BRIGHTON, ONTARIO, 7/2/2023

 

1ST YEAR GRAY CATBIRD, PRESQU'ILE PROVINCIAL PARK, BRIGHTON, ONTARIO, 7/2/2023

   We can tell this is a 1st year Gray Catbird by its cloudy more grayish eyes, rather than the clear black eyes of an adult catbird.  Gray Catbirds become fully mature when they are one year old.

 

HOUSE WRENS, PRESQU'ILE PROVINCIAL PARK, BRIGHTON, ONTARIO, 7/2/2023

   Both House Wrens were singing up a storm.

MOLTING YELLOW WARBLER FLEDGELINGS, PRESQU'ILE PROVINCIAL PARK, BRIGHTON, ONTARIO, 7/2/2023

   The first two photos show a Yellow Warbler fledgeling which still has much of the down of a chick.  The last two photos show a more advanced Yellow Warbler fledgeling, with a lot less down.   Both fledglings could fly, but how far we couldn't tell.