Bird News A Canada goose with a natural feather disorder is being helped by caring man in ON. A poacher in New Brunswick has received heavy fines and had his licence suspended for hunting black scoters. Sightings of turkey vultures are getting more common in New Brunswick. The band-tailed pigeon …
We are having the gentlest October I can remember in a long time. Sunny days hovering around 20C (70F), not a breath of wind, and lots of yellow leaves gently drifting down. The weather gods are obviously trying to apologize for the dismal drenching we got in September. When camping …
Bird News Researchers tracking the migration of a red knot have documented an annual flight of 26,700 km between its Argentinian wintering grounds and breeding site in Nunavut. Levels of toxic mercury in the eggs of water birds downstream from the oilsands have grown by 50 per cent over the …
Bird News The Sprague’s pipit, a threatened species in Canada for 10 years, will not get help in the US because “federal wildlife officials are too busy saving other species to conduct the studies and hold meetings necessary to get them on the U.S. endangered species list.” Four years overdue, …
My blog hasn’t been getting much attention lately, but my yard certainly has. Because of our location near the river, the number of mature trees and the fact that I have bird food out year round, our yard turns into a migration trap in the fall. I’ve spent the last …
Honestly, what is with my life? Am I giving off weird, strangeness vibes to the universe? The other night about 10:00 pm, my husband and I were watching a movie when something flew up from the basement and down the hallway. Yes, I said flew. We looked at each other, …
