Someone Flipped The Winter Switch! Hello again! It is most definitely winter up here in NW Ontario. In the past 3 days, we’ve gone from heavy rain to heavy freezing rain (about a 1/2 inch worth!) and now to blowing snow and about -15C wind chills. I had to bring …
Hello again! I sure hope everyone has been enjoying this wonderful autumn season. I dearly love autumn …. I just wish it would last a little longer. Like spring, it seems to be gone in a flash. Our tree colors are pretty much finished already and at least half of …
Hello again! It has most definitely been ‘juvenile bird’ season around here. My yard has been full of an assortment of juveniles: Hummingbirds, Purple Finches, Chickadees, Red Breasted Nuthatches, Grackles, Starlings, Crows, a few Sparrow types, Eastern Bluebirds, Downy Woodpeckers …… The Downies surprised me, actually. I had only been …
Hello again! Hope you are all enjoying your summer. Around here, it’s juvenile bird time in the yard! I’ve been having great fun watching & listening to families of birds at my few summer feeders & in my trees. I’ve been watching juvenile Red Breasted Nuthatches, Black Capped Chickadees, Crows, …
Hello again and welcome to Summer! It was so cold in May, we were really beginning to wonder if warmer temperatures would ever actually hit. Well …….. they have: it’s 27C today. 🙂 Most of the photos in this post were taken earlier in the month. It’s much quieter in …
Hello again! I hope you’re enjoying spring migration. It seems to be a little slower than normal up here but this month, we’re finally seeing a few migrants moving through. In late April, I was thrilled to see a flock of Rusty Blackbirds in my yard. They stayed for just …
Hello again! Despite today’s freezing rain storm, Spring has finally arrived in Northwestern Ontario. This post will likely be mostly a photo essay. I’ve been busy with the camera these past few weeks as migrants have been moving in. These first 2 are not migrants but I thought the photos …
Hello again from NW Ontario and welcome to Spring 2016! Since you last heard from me, we’ve lost about 18″ of snow and I actually have a bare patch of grass in my backyard now, where the snow was thinnest. Unfortunately today, we’ve reverted back to winter and it was …
Hello again! Hope everyone had an enjoyable Valentine’s Day. Believe it or not, it is time for the Gray Jay to nest! Up here in NW Ontario, I believe the Gray Jay is the earliest species to begin nesting, usually in mid to late February. The signs have been there …
A belated Happy New Year to everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. Parts of January have been brutally cold but so far, it hasn’t lasted more than a couple of days … highly unusual as normally, most of January looks like this photo! It never ceases to …