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 …
It certainly took long enough. After a long crappy winter and an even longer, crappier spring, by early May pleasant weather finally returned to southern Ontario. This, of course, has spurred an incredible amount of bird activity in a very short time. Suddenly, the sounds of chirping birds fill the …
The last month has been an interesting one here in Toronto, both with the weather and the birds. Spring may of arrived in March, but “old man winter” kept hanging on, his most cruel blow coming in the form of a three day ice storm the second …
Have you ever hugged a book? As a birder living on the edge of the prairies, I have spent hundreds of hours and many thousands of miles driving prairie roads, looking for birds. Sometimes you get lucky and find four juvenile ferruginous hawks stretching in the sunlight right next to …
We received an email from Gord Holm about a pair of robins who decided to raise a family on the railing of their back deck last year. The pictures show the location of the nest about three feet from the step that they use each time going in and out …
Greetings! It’s been 6 months since we’ve blogged, we took a bit of a break, but are looking forward to writing regularly again. I thought since this is our first blog in a while we’d do a quick recap of our Fall 2017, and Winter 2018. The bird activity in …
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 …
Waterfowl have long held a special place in my heart, and late winter has long been my favourite time of year to observe them. The birds are in prime shape, the drakes are sporting their brightest plumage of the year, and here in the lower Great Lakes, you have the …
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 …
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 …