Yup, the weather is beautiful in Toronto this week. Sad to say though your Toronto Wildlife photographer is still grumpily flopping about in his cave, waiting for the effects of a long winter to wear off. So here's another older image, this one from 2008.It's quite easy to mistake the bird here for a swallow. But it's actually an Eastern Kingbird. There's lots of these around and they should be showing up in Toronto soon. The swallows are coming too, maybe any day.
Just to show how far birds can migrate these Eastern Kingbirds spend our winter down in the Amazonian rainforest where they fly around in huge flocks. Up here they're quite solitary. If you see something that kind of looks like a swallow but is maybe a little bigger, one of these is probably what you're looking at. You can find them all through the city.
