How’s that for a post title? 🙂 As readers of my blog posts will know, I particularly enjoy the fall season for all the gorgeous colors that it brings. Combine that with some of the most spectacular plumage to be found on any North American bird – such as the …
September is a busy and unpredictable month in our backyard. We’re sad to see our summer visitors leave us, but we look forward to the freshness of Fall. The Baltimore Orioles were gone by September 1st, and our last Ruby-throated Hummingbird sighting was September 13th. We still keep the sugar …
In May I got an iPhone for my birthday – the one that made me, officially, a card-carrying, pension-getting senior. Now I text with friends and get emails wherever I am. I like these features in a phone. But more exciting is the fact that I can download apps. …
September is already half over and fall migration is in full swing. Â Geese are flying by the hundreds overhead, the trees are changing color and dropping leaves already. Â And my yard is FULL of Grackles! Â Sometimes, a dozen or so Starlings are with them. It’s been an interesting few weeks …
Winterizing my trailer already? Where did the summer go? Just when things seemed to be warming up, it starts to cool down again…typical Alberta. I can’t complain though, the summers may be relatively short here (at least compared to Australia where I grew up), but they are mighty sweet! August …
Above pic- A male Northern Cardinal with one of his young. I had thought the summer of 2015 in our backyard was going to be something along the lines of spectacular. Spring was certainly making it seem like things were only going to get more interesting in the weeks/months …
I don’t know how long he’d been in the garden room. Maybe hours. Busy in the house, I’d decided to take a break and work on the 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle my grandkids had left for me to finish, just that morning. (It’s a bit of an addiction.) As soon …
Late summer already … it’s such a shame that the shortest season of the year has to disappear in a blink! Â I think it should be a rule that summer runs more slowly than the other 3 seasons, don’t you?? I was very excited this week to have another first-ever …
The 17th season of the British Columbia Coastal Waterbird Survey begins on September 13, and we have several vacant sites in Vancouver, Tofino, and Ucluelet. This long-term monitoring program helps identify population and distribution changes in overwintering waterbirds. Volunteers conduct counts of ducks, loons, grebes, gulls, and other waterbirds on the …
“It all started with a pair of Cardinals”. This is my standard response when asked how we got into backyard bird feeding or birding in general for that matter. Rob and I started dating in January of 2004, and that spring I suggested he get a bird feeder for his …