As we near the end of the decade, some birding bloggers are compiling lists of various bird sightings over the past ten years. I thought that sounded like a fun idea, so here’s my list of my most memorable birds. Not all of them were lifers, but all of them …
Yesterday on Twitter, someone mentioned some stunning pictures of chickens. Which immediately made me think of Las Vegas. A few years ago, a friend and I were in Las Vegas for a business convention. One day we had a free morning, and not being interested in casinos, we were at …
I admit it – the birding gods have smiled on me when it comes to owl sightings. I grew up in the northern boreal forest, where Great-gray and Great-horned owls were commonplace. In a South Carolina cypress swamp, a Barred owl flew in and landed about 12 ft away. A …
Sometimes the birding urge just overtakes you. Completely ignoring a mountain of work at home, my husband and I decided to spend a sunny November Sunday tooling around the prairie countryside looking for snow geese. When we left at 8:30 am, it was a brisk 2C, and the sun was …
The Okanagan Valley is one of Canada’s best birding destinations, and a new guide will help visiting birders enjoy their pilgrimages there. The four naturalist clubs in the Okanagan Valley worked together to publish a 32-page full-colour guide to the Okanagan Valley Birding Trail. Bird Studies Canada’s Senior Project Biologist …
Alberta is a province with a vast range of habitats: boreal forest, the Rocky Mountains, aspen parkland, grasslands and short-grass prairie. For our vacation this summer, we decided to head for the grasslands. In particular, we wanted to visit a geological wonder tucked into the prairie – Dinosaur Provincial Park …