The Friends Of Humber Bay Park Association was formed in 2015 by a dedicated group of people who wanted to ensure the Park was Protected, Preserved and Enhanced.

HISTORY: 

Humber Bay Park, is an expansive parkland & engaging wildlife oasis, created from landfill in 1984 on the northern shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto’s Humber Bay Shores district.  

RED NECKED GREBES:   

Each spring, a few pairs of colourful and beloved Red Necked Grebes migrate from southern climes to Humber Bay Park, making their home and nesting grounds in the Park ponds throughout the breeding season and into the summer months.

 Complex courtship displays begin even before their spring arrival – with loud calls heard from afar, as the Grebes vocalize their distinctive, staccato, mating cackle . They perform ritual mating dances with the pairs facing each other chest to chest, rising partly out of the water while turning their heads from side to side.

Once paired,   both male and female Grebes participate in building a nest of floating water vegetation anchored to standing plants,  or a man-made  platform.                                      

Both sexes incubate eggs to hatching  for 20-23 days.  Both parents feed the young, who often ride on the parents' backs, although the young are able to swim shortly after hatching.