My First Book of Canadian Birds by Andrea Miller (text) and Angela Doak (art) Hardcover Children’s Picture Book 7 x 9 inches/32 pages Nimbus Publishing ISBN: 978-1-77108-635-0 /$22.95 Publication date: October 1 2018 My First Book of Canadian Birds makes me wish I had a three- or four-year-old grandchild. This lovely …
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 …
Irruption! It sounds a bit dramatic, but that’s exactly how the sign in our local bird food store described the anticipated fall flight of goldfinches and pine siskins. Apparently the pine cone crop around here wasn’t very good this year, so we should all expect to see huge numbers of …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Even though it’s not officially Fall for another couple weeks, the turning of the calendar to September feels very Fall like to me. For most, it means the start of school, but for us it means the start of the departing of our “summer guests”. Though I enjoy all …
By Sharon McInnes How does a wild crow come to be the unofficial ambassador of Vancouver? What does it say about Vancouverites that they chose a crow over a man who’s devoted much of his life to Parkinson’s research? Or to environmental justice? According to a tweet by Justin McElroy, …
Bird Canada gets a lot of emails from Canadians asking for help identifying a bird they have photographed. Some of these can be extremely challenging – juveniles, blurry photos, leucistic birds, hawks from a distance etc. This is the reason, ahem, that I have such a large collection of field …
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 …