Eye-catching door
Beauty in old age
Two of my favourite things
Barn with ducks, chickens and rabbit
Friendly horse
American Dipper
A pet 'rescue' Ferret
Licorice Allsorts (candy) eyes
Day 3, Grape Hyacinth / Muscari botryoides, on way…
Day 3, front of the DeLaurier house, Pt Pelee
Beauty of winter (well, late fall)
Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans!
Day 5, sunset from ferry to Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 7, American Robin, Tadoussac
Day 6, American Goldfinch, Tadoussac, Quebec
Delicate hoarfrost
Day 7, American Robin, Tadoussac
Day 7 afternoon, Prince Shoal Lighthouse, near Tad…
Day 7, Downy Woodpecker, Tadoussac
Farm cat, High River Christmas Bird Count
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Christmas Llama - oops, Bird! - Count
Happy New Year!
Today's walk in Fish Creek Park
One of three Snowy Owls today
Eastern Kingbird, SW of Calgary
Country scene in winter
A change of position
Short-eared Owl
Nodding (Musk) Thistle / Carduus nutans
Day 12, SW of Port-au-Persil, Quebec
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Harlequin Duck / Histrionicus histrionicus
Short-eared Owl - from January
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Northern Hawk Owl juevnile - from the archives
Great Gray Owl - from the archives
Burrowing Owl, ENDANGERED - from the archives
Great Horned Owl
When fall comes after 'winter'
Yellowlegs - Lesser or Greater?
Harlequin Duck / Histrionicus histrionicus
Red Panda / Ailurus fulgens
Fun to spend time with
Our majestic mountains
Part of a gathering of Ravens
On a very foggy morning
Swainson's Hawk / Buteo swainsoni
Living on the edge
Invasive Goat's-beard
Beauty of a weed
Columbian Ground Squirrel / Urocitellus columbianu…
A classic light/intermediate-morph adult Swainson'…
Impressive creature
Spruce Grouse / Falcipennis canadensis
Swainson's Hawk
Mushroom beauty
Cracker sp.
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, adult male
Hard working Dad
Magpie Inky Cap / Coprinus picaceus?
Fritillary butterfly sp. on Red Clover
Cottonwood Leaf Beetle (I think)
A beautiful catch
Brewer's Blackbird male
Black-crowned Night-heron
Tree Swallow at Rondeau Provincial Park
Water Lily
Yesterday's female (or young?) Moose
Purple Martin, Ellis Bird Farm, Alberta
Reflected peaks
Always a treat to see
Swainson's Hawk take-off
Peyto Lake from the Lookout
American Wigeon
Always hope for a bear in Waterton
Barn Swallow
Cinnamon Black Bear, Waterton Lakes National Park,…
Bluebird bling
Yellow Lady's-slipper / Cypripedium parviflorum
Great Horned Owlet
American Robin, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Wilson's Snipe
Purple Finch male, Tadoussac, Quebec
Western Grebes paired up
Green Honeycreeper male, Trinidad
Another Pelican treat
American Kestrel
Green Honeycreeper male, Trinidad
Gathering lunch for his babies
Purple Honeycreeper, Trinidad
White-necked Jacobin male, Trinidad
Wood Ducks
Ruddy Turnstone, Tobago
Palm Tanager, Trinidad
Blue-gray Tanager, Trinidad
Great Gray Owl #2
Common Redpoll female
Bananaquit / Coereba flaveola, Trinidad
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Pt Pelee and Tadoussac trip, Canada, 6-19 May 2018
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Day 2, Rose-breasted Grosbeak male / Pheucticus ludovicianus, Rondeau PP
All five photos posted this morning were taken at Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, on 8 March 2018. I am trying to add any images in roughly the order in which they were taken. Formed in 1894, this is Ontario’s second oldest Provincial Park. A delightful place! This handsome Rose-breasted Grosbeak male was hanging out at the feeders at the Visitor's Centre. We were there over lunchtime and an absolutely delicious curry soup was available. As for marking my photos on my map, I have no idea exactly where we saw what, so I will place all the Rondeau photos in one general location, mainly to show where Rondeau Provincial Park actually is. Also, a few of the photos may have been taken while driving to and from the park, back to our hotel in Leamington.
"Rondeau protects one of the last remaining stands of old growth Carolinian Forest in Ontario. Apart from protecting 3254 ha of Oak Savannah, Carolinian Forest, Dune habitat, and Coastal wetland, Rondeau is one of North America’s best examples of a Cuspate Sandspit. Formed by the erosion and deposition of sand and gravel, the Rondeau peninsula extends into Lake Erie, and forms a protected bay which is important habitat for a variety of species at risk as well as providing many recreational opportunities. The peninsula, combined with the open bay, attracts migrating birds throughout the spring and fall, resulting in some of the best bird watching in Ontario." From Rondeau Park website.
rondeauprovincialpark.ca/about-rondeau-park/
Four friends (four of the six friends with whom I went to Trinidad & Tobago in March 2017) and I left Calgary airport on 6 May 2018 and flew to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There, we rented a van and did the long drive to Point Pelee for four whole days of birding. We stayed at the Best Western Hotel in Leamington, which is close to Point Pelee National Park. It fills up very quickly (with birders) and our rooms were booked months ahead of time.
Our four days walking at Point Pelee and area were very interesting and I, for sure, saw various things I had never seen before, including my very first Raccoon : ) Various friends had told me that the Warblers at Pelee were fantastic - so many and numerous species, and so close. Have to disagree with the "closeness" when we were there! I don't have binoculars as cameras are enough for me to carry around, so I know I missed all sorts of birds. Though my Warbler count was lower than my friends' counts, I was happy to at least get a few distant photos of some species. So many of my shots are awful, but I will still post some of them, just for the record of seeing them. Some photos are so bad that I doubt anyone can ID them.
We covered several different trails at Pelee, and also drove to a few places somewhat further afield, such as Hillman Marsh. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the magnificent barn at this Conservation Area! I was in so much pain that I wasn't sure if I would be able to walk across a grassy area to take a few photos. However, it was so unusual and beautiful, that I reckoned I could try and move forward inch by inch - or crawl (ha, ha) if necessary. Another place we enjoyed was Rondeau National Park. One amazing and totally unexpected sighting just outside Pelee was a very distant male Snowy Owl sitting in a fieldl!!
We walked every single day that we were at Pelee and the areas mentioned above, seeing not just birds, but a frog/toad, snakes that we suspect were mating, several Painted turtles, a few plants (including both white and red Triliums, that I had never seen growing wild before, and a couple of Jack in the Pulpit plants).
The Friends of Point Pelee have food available at lunch time that one can buy. They also have a shuttle bus that one can take from the Visitor Centre all the way to the southern tip of Pelee, which is the most southern part of Canada. They have birding walks with a guide each day (there is a charge), but we walked the trails on our own, except for one morning. On 9 May, we spent the morning from 6:00 am to 11:00 am on a birding walk at Pelee with guide, Tom Hince, whom we had contacted while we were still in Calgary.
At the end of our stay at Point Pelee, we had to drive all the way back to Toronto, from where we flew to Quebec airport. From there, we had a four-hour drive to Tadoussac on the coast of the St. Lawrence Seaway. This is such a delightful, small place and in a beautiful setting. One of our friends, Anne B, and her husband have a summer cabin further along the cliff from the few stores and port. She had invited the four of us to go with her from Pelee to spend a week at her beautiful home. What an absolute treat this was! We were able to meet some of her relatives, too, who also have built cabins out there. We were looked after so well, and we were able to see and photograph all sorts of birds and other things. We made several trips to see different places, including the Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area, where we were able to see endless thousands of Snow Geese. Breathtaking!
We also had two boat trips from Tadoussac - one was a whaling trip in a Zodiac, where we saw very, very distant Beluga and Minke Whales. The Belugas looked almost like the white wave crests - but they were Belugas. The other boat trip was to the Brandy Pot Islands, inhabited by thousands of Razorbills and Common Murres, which were new birds for us, and Double-crested Cormorants that were nesting in tree tops. That long boat trip (in a tiny boat named Juno) started off in the rain and dark clouds and it was soooo cold! Thermal underwear, layers of fleece and toque and gloves were needed. This day was arranged through a contact of Anne's and it was so much enjoyed! Of course, we anchored a distance away from the island and sat there and ate our sandwiches and took endless photos. It is forbidden to land on the island at nesting time.
Anne B, I can't thank you enough for organizing this holiday for us all and for inviting us to spend a week at your cabin. You worked so hard and it was so much appreciated by each and every one of us. Thank you for doing all the many hours of driving, too! Janet and Anne, thank you so much for compiling the lists of birds seen each day at various locations, and posted to ebird. These entries will be a huge help while I try and sort out where we were and when, and what species we saw. Miss your cookies and muffins, Janet, that you kindly made for us in Tadoussac, to go along with the wonderful meals that Anne planned and made for us : )
"Rondeau protects one of the last remaining stands of old growth Carolinian Forest in Ontario. Apart from protecting 3254 ha of Oak Savannah, Carolinian Forest, Dune habitat, and Coastal wetland, Rondeau is one of North America’s best examples of a Cuspate Sandspit. Formed by the erosion and deposition of sand and gravel, the Rondeau peninsula extends into Lake Erie, and forms a protected bay which is important habitat for a variety of species at risk as well as providing many recreational opportunities. The peninsula, combined with the open bay, attracts migrating birds throughout the spring and fall, resulting in some of the best bird watching in Ontario." From Rondeau Park website.
rondeauprovincialpark.ca/about-rondeau-park/
Four friends (four of the six friends with whom I went to Trinidad & Tobago in March 2017) and I left Calgary airport on 6 May 2018 and flew to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There, we rented a van and did the long drive to Point Pelee for four whole days of birding. We stayed at the Best Western Hotel in Leamington, which is close to Point Pelee National Park. It fills up very quickly (with birders) and our rooms were booked months ahead of time.
Our four days walking at Point Pelee and area were very interesting and I, for sure, saw various things I had never seen before, including my very first Raccoon : ) Various friends had told me that the Warblers at Pelee were fantastic - so many and numerous species, and so close. Have to disagree with the "closeness" when we were there! I don't have binoculars as cameras are enough for me to carry around, so I know I missed all sorts of birds. Though my Warbler count was lower than my friends' counts, I was happy to at least get a few distant photos of some species. So many of my shots are awful, but I will still post some of them, just for the record of seeing them. Some photos are so bad that I doubt anyone can ID them.
We covered several different trails at Pelee, and also drove to a few places somewhat further afield, such as Hillman Marsh. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the magnificent barn at this Conservation Area! I was in so much pain that I wasn't sure if I would be able to walk across a grassy area to take a few photos. However, it was so unusual and beautiful, that I reckoned I could try and move forward inch by inch - or crawl (ha, ha) if necessary. Another place we enjoyed was Rondeau National Park. One amazing and totally unexpected sighting just outside Pelee was a very distant male Snowy Owl sitting in a fieldl!!
We walked every single day that we were at Pelee and the areas mentioned above, seeing not just birds, but a frog/toad, snakes that we suspect were mating, several Painted turtles, a few plants (including both white and red Triliums, that I had never seen growing wild before, and a couple of Jack in the Pulpit plants).
The Friends of Point Pelee have food available at lunch time that one can buy. They also have a shuttle bus that one can take from the Visitor Centre all the way to the southern tip of Pelee, which is the most southern part of Canada. They have birding walks with a guide each day (there is a charge), but we walked the trails on our own, except for one morning. On 9 May, we spent the morning from 6:00 am to 11:00 am on a birding walk at Pelee with guide, Tom Hince, whom we had contacted while we were still in Calgary.
At the end of our stay at Point Pelee, we had to drive all the way back to Toronto, from where we flew to Quebec airport. From there, we had a four-hour drive to Tadoussac on the coast of the St. Lawrence Seaway. This is such a delightful, small place and in a beautiful setting. One of our friends, Anne B, and her husband have a summer cabin further along the cliff from the few stores and port. She had invited the four of us to go with her from Pelee to spend a week at her beautiful home. What an absolute treat this was! We were able to meet some of her relatives, too, who also have built cabins out there. We were looked after so well, and we were able to see and photograph all sorts of birds and other things. We made several trips to see different places, including the Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area, where we were able to see endless thousands of Snow Geese. Breathtaking!
We also had two boat trips from Tadoussac - one was a whaling trip in a Zodiac, where we saw very, very distant Beluga and Minke Whales. The Belugas looked almost like the white wave crests - but they were Belugas. The other boat trip was to the Brandy Pot Islands, inhabited by thousands of Razorbills and Common Murres, which were new birds for us, and Double-crested Cormorants that were nesting in tree tops. That long boat trip (in a tiny boat named Juno) started off in the rain and dark clouds and it was soooo cold! Thermal underwear, layers of fleece and toque and gloves were needed. This day was arranged through a contact of Anne's and it was so much enjoyed! Of course, we anchored a distance away from the island and sat there and ate our sandwiches and took endless photos. It is forbidden to land on the island at nesting time.
Anne B, I can't thank you enough for organizing this holiday for us all and for inviting us to spend a week at your cabin. You worked so hard and it was so much appreciated by each and every one of us. Thank you for doing all the many hours of driving, too! Janet and Anne, thank you so much for compiling the lists of birds seen each day at various locations, and posted to ebird. These entries will be a huge help while I try and sort out where we were and when, and what species we saw. Miss your cookies and muffins, Janet, that you kindly made for us in Tadoussac, to go along with the wonderful meals that Anne planned and made for us : )
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