Hello again! Wow, it’s been a really quiet season here up until just recently. I had my feeders put away in late spring, after FeederWatch season ended and for about half of the summer due to worries of Avian Flu. I put one or two feeders out in late July …
Hello again! It certainly has been a long winter. We still have over 3 feet of snow in the backyard with some banks nearly 10 feet tall around town. It’s JUST starting to melt some the past few days but winter & spring will be battling it out for at …
Hello from my backyard! It’s been quite a long time since I posted from here (since March ’21!) … sorry about that. I wasn’t feeding the birds much this past summer because of bears in the area. Then, in late summer, my yard was hit with a Trichomoniasis outbreak for …
Barb Castell is a birder who lives on an acreage SW of Calgary, Alberta, near the community of Priddis. The location is in the foothills, a transition zone between the prairies to the east and the mountains to the west. It is a great place to see birds, including some …
Hello again from Manitouwadge! First off on a good note, the Western Meadowlark is still here, still visiting my yard almost daily & looks perfectly healthy. Such a beautiful bird! BUT!! I recently found out that this beautiful bird has a dark side: one day last week, …
Hello again & Happy New Year! I’m hoping the series of photos I’m going to post here can help bring you some smiles during these difficult times of pandemic, lockdowns and mid winter blues. I certainly don’t have large numbers of individual birds coming to my yard but I do …
Hello, hello, hello! Wow, it has been a good long while since I’ve posted here but this has been an UNREAL year for me, as I’m sure it has been for many of you. After my last post in February, my best friend got very ill in late March (not …
Hard to believe 6 months have passed since my last post. Guess I’ll put that down to a combination of the general craziness of 2020, plus the expected laziness of the summer! I thought it might be nice to publish a few photo albums from April to now, so this …
Having found some spare time over the past week or so, I’ve managed to go back through this winter’s image files and process my highlights from the last few months. First and foremost among the highlights, and a recent encounter, was this drop-dead gorgeous male Varied Thrush: He was as …
Hello again! Wow, I can’t believe it’s been 4 months since I released a blog post. I sincerely apologize for that but I do have a reason. Believe it or not, most of this winter has been absolutely dead quiet in my yard & I’ve really had nothing to talk …