Today’s blog post should get me through most of my backlog of shots from 2018, so I’ll continue on where I left off in late summer… Late August and early September saw the final waves of south-bound migrants coming through, and I was pleased to knock off no less than …
As usual, I’m miles behind in processing my bird images from this year, but here’s a sample from the period July-Sep 2018 that I took in Calgary or within a 2-hour drive of the city. When we hit mid-July, I start thinking about warblers and shorebirds and try to capture …
Seriously, is summer over already? Here in Calgary, flurries and sub-zero temps are already upon us and autumn continues to be a 2-week season! I am WAY behind in posting bird pics, so I’ll try and catch up with a selection of birding highlights from the spring and early …
During the long winter months in Calgary I like to plan out a few birding trips for the coming spring and summer months, with a preference for visiting pastures new (to me, at least). Having read about the annual May ‘Tofino Shorebird Festival’ held in neighboring British Columbia’s Vancouver Island, …
With a local long cold winter here in Calgary, Spring seems to have taken forever to arrive and then suddenly the migrant birds are arriving at a frenetic pace and green colours and warm temperatures seem to occur overnight! Indeed, only a month ago Calgary was still enduring significant snowfall …
Well, my dearth of local Canadian birding activity has continued for another month, but the reasons are much more positive than last month: I have just returned from a 10-day trip to Costa Rica where I had a wonderful time seeing & photographing some of the astounding array of wildlife …
Birding outings this past month for me, with frustrating head colds either side of Christmas and local temps hovering around -20 celsius for extended periods, have been both limited and unfruitful! As such, my short post this month takes us back to the warmer weather of last summer during our …
I know it’s another month until winter ‘officially’ begins here in Calgary, but the snow and sub-zero temps have already arrived and the winter birding in Calgary has begun in earnest. I like the coming of winter, not so much for the temperature, but because it means I can chill …
Ahhh, autumn birding…I love it! Those who have followed my posts the past few years will know my love of autumn and the lush, saturated yellows and reds that it brings to Calgary’s parks and gardens. Not only does the city look marvelous, but so do the birds against these …
Late summer in southern Alberta is a fun time as it means the return of many species, passing through on their southward migration. First off, the shorebirds… Usually around the August long weekend I will head east of Calgary to check large, shallow wetlands in the hopes of seeing big …