Hello from our Toronto backyard! Happy new year to all. With a fairly busy holiday season and not a lot of bird activity here at home or in our travels, I thought I would blog about a species of bird that many probably don’t think a whole lot about… Pigeons. …
Hello, thanks for returning to the Bird Canada blog and seeing what is happening in our neck of the woods here in Toronto, Ontario. It’s actually been rather quiet at home with the birds. We can blame a Cooper’s Hawk with near daily visits. It’s something to watch this Hawk …
This weekend is the beginning of the annual Project Feeder Watch count season which runs from November until April. It’s something we have been participating in for over a decade now. The days before becoming a citizen scientist and reporting our backyard bird species I was doing this on my …
Welcome back to our Toronto backyard! First off I really want to thank everyone who took the time out to read our July post, and comment, regarding the Peregrine Falcons and fledge watch. I put a lot of heart into that one and the feedback was appreciated. So here we …
Hello! Welcome back to Toronto, only this month we won’t be in our backyard but still close to home. The month of June got swallowed up with Peregrine Falcon fledge watching. This is an ordeal I participate in annually. This is something I am quite passionate about. I hope some …
Hello! Welcome back to our slice of nature here in our Toronto backyard. It’s been a slow moving spring but the birds assure us that the weather is changing and slowly getting warmer. First sign weeks ago was this Chipping Sparrow who spent a few days with us. I was …
Rob and I had a pretty quiet Christmas week, it was just nice to have so much time together as we work different shifts. We also enjoyed a bit of birding while we were off together. We may not of captured any great photos, but we made some great …
Toronto Raptors? If you Googled something about the basketball team and wound up here… sorry about your luck, but maybe stick around and learn about Toronto’s other raptors of the feathered kind. Much like the basketball season that runs from October through to April, our visiting birds of prey go …
This is the first time we’ve had a White-throated Sparrow in the Fall months of Project FeederWatch. Today was the first day of Project FeederWatch for the 2018-2019 season. It was a cold and windy day here in Toronto, we even had a couple snow flurries. Project Feeder Watch is …
Welcome back to our Toronto backyard and slightly beyond… It’s hard to believe we are nearing the middle of October already. Fall migration this year gave us some pleasant surprises here at home. A Blackpoll Warbler found our fountain. An exciting moment as it was our 70th backyard bird species. …