May 2011 Highlights
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Blackbirds & Orioles
Sharp-lobed Hepatica - flower to 2.5 cm - leaves (basal) to 12 cm - height to 15 cm - West Don Valley (Wilket Creek Park) - May 2011
Buttercup / Crowfoot Family
White Trillium - flower 5 to 10 cm - leaves 8 to 12 cm - height to 40 cm - West Don Valley (Wilket Creek Park) - May 2011
Bunchflower Family
Purple Trillium - flower to 10 cm - leaves to 17 cm - height to 40 cm - West Don Valley (Wilket Creek Park) - May 2011
Bunchflower Family
Chipping Sparrow (sexes similar) - approx. 14 cm - High Park - May 2011
Sparrows
Yellow? Morel - height to 15 cm - Lower Don Valley (Crother's Woods) - May 2011
Mushrooms - Ascomycota
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (male) - approx. 18 cm - West Don Valley (Sunnybrook Park) - May 2011
Cardinals, Grosbeaks & Buntings
Brown-headed Cowbird (male) in Russian Olive tree - approx. 20 cm - Leslie Spit - May 2011
Gray Catbird (sexes similar) eating Staghorn Sumac fruit - approx. 23 cm - Lower Don Valley (Crother's Woods) - May 2011
Mockingbirds & Thrashers
Willow Flycatcher (sexes similar) in Red-osier Dogwood - approx. 16 cm - Leslie Spit - May 2011
Flycatchers
Golden Tortoise Beetles on Hedge Bindweed - approx. 7 mm - Lower Don Valley (Leaside) - May 2011
Leaf Beetles
Cedar Waxwing (sexes similar?) - approx. 18 cm - Leslie Spit - May 2011
Waxwings
American Robin (female?) - approx. 25 cm - Leslie Spit - May 2011
Mating Tree Swallows in Staghorn Sumac - approx. 14 cm - Leslie Spit - May 2011
Thrushes & Robins
Swallows
