At this point in my life, you would think I would be used to the idiotic decisions made by the super brains in our provincial parliament, but apparently not. The latest issue of Nature Alberta, the magazine from the Federation of Alberta Naturalists, has shown me otherwise. Earlier this year, …
Have you ever been so astonished by a bird sighting that your brain shuts down? No synapses firing, just a blank white void where your bird identification skills should be? It’s most disconcerting, I can tell you. One blisteringly hot prairie day earlier this month, my husband and I took …
The Rocky Mountains are a great teacher. They teach humility – their massive, magnificent presence puts a tiny insignificant human and their problems in perspective. They teach stability – they’ve been there for thousands of years in spite of how fast we whip through our daily lives, and will still …
If it’s summer in Alberta, then Highway 40 must be open. This magnificent drive, an hour west of the city, meanders along the eastern slopes of the Kananaskis Range of the Rocky Mountains. The highest point of the drive is Highwood Pass, at 2210 m (7250 ft), the highest point …
Ducks Unlimited has released the latest figures for the 2011 breeding season for ducks in North America. The total population of all duck species was estimated at 45.6 million breeding birds, an 11 percent increase over last year. This is only the fifth time in the survey’s history that the …
Another update from my Alaska Highway traveling niece. “We stopped for the night beside the Tanzilla River in northern British Columbia. We were by ourselves in the campsite and in between rain showers we decided to go for a hike. We didn’t go far when we came upon these bear …
Update from Bird Studies Canada After five years of field work (2006-2010) by dedicated volunteers, the Maritimes Breeding Bird Atlas (MBBA) is now in the data analysis and publication phase. The species accounts have volunteer writers assigned but we still need species photos to include in the book. For a full …
