Name: Feeding Frenzy of Mergansers and Gulls on Lake Ontario @jeannieiron
Uploaded: 2019-10-30T01:29:31-0400
Duration: 8 min 17 s
Description: Abundant baitfish such as alewife, smelt and shiners are attracting huge flocks of Red-breasted Mergansers and gulls. Watching this spectacle is exciting, with the anticipation of seeing a jaeger or Northern Gannet. With Ron Pittaway at Rotary Park in Ajax, Ontario, on 29 October 2019.

Slaty-backed Gull in Toronto, 2 October 2020 @jeannieiron

Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Adult Slaty-backed Gull was discovered on the break wall at Sunnyside Beach in Toronto on 2 October 2020. It's the same Slaty-backed as in Missisauga, Ontario, which is west of Toronto. Last section of video is slowed so as to show the spread wing pattern.

Slaty-backed Gull in Toronto, 2 October 2020

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Gull Feeding Frenzy in Pickering on 22 November 2019

Double-scratchers in a Snow Storm in Toronto

Feeding Frenzy of Mergansers and Gulls on Lake Ontario