Rather late getting on the train here, I just decided that I'd better start another "running total" list to encourage myself to get out on the trails more.
Yesterday (Sunday, Feb. 05) I went running down to Victoria park, in the middle of my home town of Kitchener, Ontario. It seemed like it was going to be a very blah birding excursion at first (saw about 68 Mallards, and that was all, in the park). But I on the way home, I came across a tree full of American Robins - started counting them, got to about 30 - and then saw another tree with a few in it, and then another! All told, there must have been 50 robins at a minimum, but I suspect I was being very conservative.
A few robins in S. Ontario in winter are not at all unusual, but large flocks on downtown trails are! I think they must be running out of grapes and other wild fruit in the forests, and are roaming around town now, just looking for anything at all to eat.
Sunday, Feb. 05:
1) Mallard
2) Black-capped Chickadee
3) House Sparrow
4) Mourning Dove
5) American Robin
6) American Crow