After a very mild start to winter, Calgary paid for it in spades during February and early March with temps consistently in the -20C range. With that and general family activities, I haven’t got up to much birding locally, but nonetheless got to enjoy some birds that seem to be …
With the release of 66 greater sage-grouse into the wild, the Calgary Zoo, in partnership with the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) and Parks Canada, has significantly boosted one of Canada’s most endangered birds at a time when fewer than 250 remain in their habitat. This milestone release is the …
Good afternoon! It’s been a pretty quiet month so once again, this post will be mainly photos & descriptions. We are so incredibly buried in snow this winter! At least the Polar Vortex is finally leaving us alone. January & the first half of February were incredibly bitter with wind …
It’s been a busy winter and I haven’t got out birding much since Christmas, but I hope to return in a month with lots more pics! In the meantime, here’s a shot of a beautiful male White-winged Crossbill that I came across in January in Calgary. Normally I see these …
Happy New Year! I’m afraid I don’t have much to talk about right now. I haven’t been watching the feeders or yard too closely this past month. I’ve been heavily distracted by illness in the family until just recently. Fingers crossed, that will now change! In the meantime, here …
Rob and I had a pretty quiet Christmas week, it was just nice to have so much time together as we work different shifts. We also enjoyed a bit of birding while we were off together. We may not of captured any great photos, but we made some great …
Today’s blog post should get me through most of my backlog of shots from 2018, so I’ll continue on where I left off in late summer… Late August and early September saw the final waves of south-bound migrants coming through, and I was pleased to knock off no less than …
Hello again and Merry Christmas to all! It’s been a pretty quiet bird feeding season around here so far. My Project FeederWatch counts each week tell me I have 13 or 14 different types of birds visiting my feeders but numbers of each type are quite low right now. Seems …
Toronto Raptors? If you Googled something about the basketball team and wound up here… sorry about your luck, but maybe stick around and learn about Toronto’s other raptors of the feathered kind. Much like the basketball season that runs from October through to April, our visiting birds of prey go …
As usual, I’m miles behind in processing my bird images from this year, but here’s a sample from the period July-Sep 2018 that I took in Calgary or within a 2-hour drive of the city. When we hit mid-July, I start thinking about warblers and shorebirds and try to capture …