Photo day at Ashbridges Bay and Lake Ontario.

I think I just had the best photo day this year! Went back down to the lake and Ashbridges Bay and found many diving ducks and scoters. I also found many gulls and a hawk! Highlights include 13 Iceland Gulls and 4 White-winged Scoters, including a beautiful adult male that was diving near the shore! It was 6 degrees Celsius today and overcast. It will be sunny tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to getting better pictures!


Here's what I saw:

40 Redhead
10 Greater Scaup
5 Gadwall
4 White-winged Scoter
60 Mallard
15 Common Goldeneye
10 Bufflehead
35 Long-tailed Duck
10 Red-breasted Merganser
200 Ring-billed Gull
50 Herring Gull
13 Iceland Gull

1 Cooper's hawk

Here are some shots!

White-winged Scoter

This beautiful adult male White-winged Scoter was diving 15 feet from the shore!

Red-breasted Merganser... on land?

A dog chased him off!

Long-tailed Duck

Bufflehead

Cooper's Hawk that allowed me to get within 20 feet of him!

Below are various Iceland Gulls of different ages:

I saw 13 today! A new city high count!

Iceland Gulls: left 

Herring Gull: right

Thanks for looking!

Comments appreciated!

Happy birding!

-Owen