Hello again and welcome to Summer! It was so cold in May, we were really beginning to wonder if warmer temperatures would ever actually hit. Well …….. they have: it’s 27C today. 🙂 Most of the photos in this post were taken earlier in the month. It’s much quieter in …
For this month’s post, I’m going to share some images from a special place just south of the Canadian border…the self-proclaimed ‘Warbler Capital of the World’: Ohio’s Magee Marsh wildlife refuge. Located on the southern shore of Lake Erie, Magee is a magical birding spot. I had the opportunity to spend 3 wonderful days …
Rob and I took off on a four day, three night birding road trip during the height of Spring migration here in Ontario. From May 8th to 11th, we visited three of our favorite spots in southern Ontario; Hillman Marsh, Rondeau Provincial Park, and the world renowned, Point Pelee National …
If you pay attention to wild birds you’re bound to see a sick one at your feeder from time to time. Birds get sick and die for a myriad of reasons, just like humans – old age, accidents, disease. They also get taken by predators (both the natural and human …
Hello again! I hope you’re enjoying spring migration. It seems to be a little slower than normal up here but this month, we’re finally seeing a few migrants moving through. In late April, I was thrilled to see a flock of Rusty Blackbirds in my yard. They stayed for just …
Through the generosity of a rancher south of Calgary, the help of my local birding club and the encouragement of some photographer friends, I had the opportunity to see and experience my first grouse ‘lek’. The grouse species in question was the Sharp-tailed variety, and a lek is “…an aggregation …
Hello and welcome to our Toronto backyard! What a month it has been since our last post. What an April! Snow, no snow, more snow, no snow, and this was how it was like on a number of days early in the month. A pretty morning out back. By the …
Ted Floyd, Editor of Birding Magazine, recently wrote an article called Birding is Easy and Hard (http://blog.aba.org/2016/03/birding-is-easy-and-hard.html). It was inspired in part by two earlier blog posts of Greg Neise, who’d come down on both sides of the argument at different times. Floyd took up the challenge of clarifying the seeming …
Hello again! Despite today’s freezing rain storm, Spring has finally arrived in Northwestern Ontario. This post will likely be mostly a photo essay. I’ve been busy with the camera these past few weeks as migrants have been moving in. These first 2 are not migrants but I thought the photos …
Well, I was lucky to get another morning or two watching some Albertan Great Grey Owls in action, so I thought I’d share some of the resulting images. My focus was on in-flight images and I managed to capture some shots that I have long dreamt about. My paltry writing …