Dead birds of Van Wagner's

My Mom and I took advantage of the sunny day to walk VWB and look for storm birds to collect... Dead bird tally (of sorta fresh stuff to fresh):

4 Long-tailed Ducks

1 DC Corm

2 Northern Cardinals (????)

1 Northern Saw-whet Owl (wing)  .. We also found a single flight feather several KM's away from this wing..

1 BARRED OWL ...

This is NOT a regular bird in Hamilton, and finding a dead one at VWB is really really odd... I actually just assumed it was a SEOW until common sense took over when I got home and looked at my pics....

Barred Owl above: it was actually mostly buried in the sand... I dug it up and washed it off (with a stick) then took this pic... 

Below: Cardinal and Saw Whet exactly as they appeared when we found them - 

Also 3 Chinook Salmon, 1 Sucker and 1 Virginia Opossum....


Not a single dead gull???

Not much in the way of living bird highlights... A few Common Redpolls and an adult Turkey Vulture.. A Mute Swan swam past Hutches and we saw one of the Lift Bridge Peregrines...


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!!!!!!!! I almost forgot, we also had 1 Orange Sulphur and 1 Lady sp on the hike !!