Sometimes the birding urge just overtakes you. Completely ignoring a mountain of work at home, my husband and I decided to spend a sunny November Sunday tooling around the prairie countryside looking for snow geese. When we left at 8:30 am, it was a brisk 2C, and the sun was …
What would you think is the most common bird in Canada? If you guessed Canada goose, you would at least be in the correct family! According to Environment Canada, our snow goose population now stands at over 4.5 million breeding birds, and has tripled over the past 20 years. While …