It’s the Spring That Never Was. The snow has melted, yes (mostly: there are still some thick patches in the woods) but it’s still COLD here in Manitouwadge, ON. Today, May 19th, we have a daytime high of only 6C when it should be well into the high teens C …
It’s the last official day of Winter! I’m so excited! Unfortunately, it also means that it’s treacherous around my parts of my yard right now, with a thick layer of ice hiding under thin layers of snow, after a day of heavy rain last week. Skates, anyone?? We …
Good afternoon! It’s been a pretty quiet month so once again, this post will be mainly photos & descriptions. We are so incredibly buried in snow this winter! At least the Polar Vortex is finally leaving us alone. January & the first half of February were incredibly bitter with wind …
Happy New Year! I’m afraid I don’t have much to talk about right now. I haven’t been watching the feeders or yard too closely this past month. I’ve been heavily distracted by illness in the family until just recently. Fingers crossed, that will now change! In the meantime, here …
Hello again and Merry Christmas to all! It’s been a pretty quiet bird feeding season around here so far. My Project FeederWatch counts each week tell me I have 13 or 14 different types of birds visiting my feeders but numbers of each type are quite low right now. Seems …
And just like that, it’s almost Halloween. Somehow, the past 2 months have flown by in a blink for me! The photo above is of my last flowers of the season in my backyard. They were lovely this year. Because I’ve been so busy recently with winterizing plus a …
And just like that, summer is over. The Hummingbirds have left for the season & we have had frost now at least a half dozen times. Not killing frost yet … mostly on rooftops … but it won’t be long until Mother Nature steps in & shuts the growing season …
Hello again! It’s been a few months since I’ve done a post here and I apologize for that. My spring season began in May with a vacation throughout southern Ontario, including a wonderful stop at Bird Studies Canada in Port Rowan! Unfortunately, it also included a breakdown of my lens …
IT’S SPRING!! Well …. the calendar says it is officially today anyway. My thermometer? Not so much as it’s reading nearly -25C once again this morning. I have a sneaking suspicion that spring weather is going to be slow in arriving this year. My yard has been completely taken over …
Hello again! It sure has been a COLD winter up here, more like the winters of my youth growing up here in Manitouwadge. We’ve hit the -40’s quite a number of times and spent much of the winter in the -30’s C with really vicious wind chills sometimes feeling near …