A visit to Tommy Thompson Park, Toronto - 28th July 2008

After attending a conference in Toronto, I had an afternoon trip to Tommy Thompson Park, a man-made spit sticking into Lake Ontario from the middle of Toronto.

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It is a brilliant place, with lagoons, lots of cover for passerine migrants and a huge colony of Double-crested Cormorants. The cormorants were magic, flying past almost constantly in large, dynamic flocks



lots of breeding Eastern Kingbirds giving good views



flocks of young hirundines:



and a few migrants, including this empidonax flycatcher that I'm still trying to identify:



What a fantastic place - I would love to bird here during the migration period.