This was the first lake weekend that we had rain. Sometime during Saturday night, a nice gentle rain started and clearly luled me into a great sleep, as I awoke the next morning at 11:00 am. Mind you, I had been up all hours of the previous night, putting those …
Bird News Unusual sightings in Ontario this year are making bird watchers happy. Satellite transmitters are being used to track loons over the Great Lakes and learn more about the spread of avian botulism. Residents of southeastern Prince Edward Island are concerned about a drop in the number of gulls …
Summer has truly arrived on the prairies. Things are slowing down, the temperatures are going up, and the frenetic bird activity of the last few weeks is gone. For the next few weeks, Marsh Diaries posts will be a sporadic event, as we won’t be going to the lake every …
Bird News Eleven oil covered birds have been treated after a vessel in the St Lawrence ran aground during a storm and leaked up to 200 tonnes of fuel into the seaway. An Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross, 10,000 kilometres from its normal range, was rescued and taken to a wildlife rehab …
We do a lot of prairie driving. Even without the regular trips to the lake, we’re prone to hopping in the car and driving through the grasslands to see what’s new. When most people think of the prairies, they think of field after field of crops or rangeland. What many don’t …
Bird News Nova Scotia will start its cull of Canada geese early this year because populations have grown rapidly since the birds were introduced from Ontario. St. Lawrence Islands National park has three active bald eagle nests that have produced about 40 chicks since eagles returned several years ago. Four …
I’m in the process of putting in a hummingbird and bee garden on the site of an old greenhouse. There was a sizeable ant colony in the greenhouse, and they’re beginning to surface in the garden. In addition to those ants, I was halfway through spreading cedar mulch around the perennials …
