Photos and text by Nancy Barrett, VP, Friends of Sam Smith Park
This is a visual accompaniment to Part 1, with species displayed according to their AVERAGE arrival date in Ontario of each photo. Each of the birds shown here can be seen, or have been seen, within the borders of Colonel Samuel Smith Park.
According to the latest eBird data, 285 species of birds have been seen in the park. Many are migrants passing through, some are migrants that stay and breed in the park, a few are permanent residents, and even fewer are rarities. Colonel Samuel Smith Park is considered a "hotspot" in birding circles, a magnet for rare and uncommon birds.
Please note this collection is intended to represent only a small percentage of all the species seen here.
For clarity, I'm republishing Mike Burrell's excellent chart of average arrival dates in Ontario for spring migrants.
| 14 March - | Turkey Vulture |
| Northern Harrier |
| Song Sparrow |
| 16 March - | Eastern Bluebird |
| 17 March - | Pied-billed Grebe |
| 18 March - | Wood Duck |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet |
| Eastern Meadowlark |
| Brown-headed Cowbird |
| 20 March - | Red-throated Loon |
| 21 March - | Great Blue Heron |
| Rusty Blackbird |
| 22 March - | American Kestrel |
| 25 March - | Northern Flicker |
| Eastern Phoebe |
| Brown Creeper |
| Winter Wren |
| Fox Sparrow |
| 27 March - | Blue-winged Teal |
| 28 March - | Pectoral Sandpiper |
| Belted Kingfisher |
| 30 March - | Dark-eyed Junco |
| 31 March - | Wilson's Snipe |
| 01 April - | Bonaparte's Gull |
| 02 April - | Double-crested Cormorant |
| Tree Swallow |
| 03 April - | Great Egret |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
| Field Sparrow |
| Vesper Sparrow |
| 04 April - | Osprey |
| 06 April - | Common Loon |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk |
| Greater Yellowlegs |
| 07 April - | Cooper's Hawk |
| Hermit Thrush |
| 08 April - | Lesser Yellowlegs |
| Purple Finch |
| 09 April - | Caspian Tern |
| 10 April - | Black-crowned Night-Heron |
| 13 April - | Louisiana Waterthrush |
| Pine Warbler |
| Swamp Sparrow |
| 14 April - | American Bittern |
| Forster's Tern |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
| Eastern Towhee |
| Savannah Sparrow |
| 15 April - | Surf Scoter |
| Barn Swallow |
| Chipping Sparrow |
| American Goldfinch |
| 16 April - | Broad-winged Hawk |
| Brown Thrasher |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| White-throated Sparrow |
| 17 April - | American White Pelican |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
| 18 April - | Virginia Rail |
| 19 April - | Purple Martin |
| 20 April - | Cliff Swallow |
| 21 April - |
Yellow-throated Warbler*
Worm-eating Warbler* |
| 22 April - | Black Scoter |
| Upland Sandpiper |
| 23 April - | Willet |
| 24 April - | Green Heron |
| Sora |
| Spotted Sandpiper |
| Common Tern |
| Bank Swallow |
| 25 April - | Long-billed Dowitcher |
| Blue Jay |
| 26 April - | Solitary Sandpiper |
| Blue-headed Vireo |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
| Palm Warbler |
| 27 April - | Wilson's Phalarope |
| White-eyed Vireo |
| House Wren |
| Marsh Wren |
| Northern Waterthrush |
| 28 April - | Sedge Wren |
| Grasshopper Sparrow |
| 30 April - | Common Gallinule |
| Dunlin |
| Chimney Swift |
| Red-headed Woodpecker |
| American Pipit |
| Black-and-white Warbler |
| Nashville Warbler |
| Kentucky Warbler |
| Black-throated Green Warbler |
| 01 May - | Eastern Whip-poor-will |
| Warbling Vireo |
| Wood Thrush |
| Gray Catbird |
| Ovenbird |
| Blue-winged Warbler |
| Orange-crowned Warbler |
| Hooded Warbler |
| Lincoln's Sparrow |
| White-crowned Sparrow |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
| 02 May - | Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
| Least Flycatcher |
| Eastern Kingbird |
| Yellow-throated Vireo |
| Veery |
| Golden-winged Warbler |
| Prairie Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler |
| Orchad Oriole |
| Baltimore Oriole |
| 03 May - | Great Crested Flycatcher |
| Prothonotary Warbler |
| Common Yellowthroat |
| Northern Parula |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler |
| Yellow-breasted Chat |
| Clay-colored Sparrow |
| Scarlet Tanager |
| Indigo Bunting |
| Bobolink |
| 04 May - | Black-bellied Plover |
| Semipalmated Plover |
| Least Sandpiper |
| Swainson's Thrush |
| Cerulean Warbler |
| Magnolia Warbler |
| 05 May - | Cape May Warbler |
| 06 May - | Least Bittern |
| American Golden-plover |
| Short-billed Dowitcher |
| Black Tern |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush |
| American Redstart |
| Kirtland's Warbler |
| Summer Tanager |
| 07 May - | Common Nighthawk |
| Tennessee Warbler |
| 08 May - | Ruddy Turnstone |
| Sanderling |
| Black-billed Cuckoo |
| Philadelphia Vireo |
| Red-eyed Vireo |
| | Connecticut Warbler |
| | Bay-breasted Warbler |
| Canada Warbler |
| Wilson's Warbler |
| 09 May - | Semipalmated Sandpiper |
| Cedar Waxwing |
| 10 May - | Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
| Eastern Wood-pewee |
| Acadian Flycatcher |
| Blackpoll Warbler |
| 11 May - | Brant |
| 12 May - | Olive-sided Flycatcher |
| Willow Flycatcher |
| Mourning Warbler |
| 13 May - | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
| 15 May - | White-rumped Sandpiper |
| 17 May - | Red-necked Phalarope |
| 18 May - | Whimbrel |
| 20 May - | Red Knot |
| Alder Flycatcher |
*these species are barely calculable due to a pretty weak peak
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