This is my first post on here, so I would like to say "Hi" to everyone. I went wandering the Irricana area today. Had no luck finding any owls, but did find...
Well, it's that time of year again, Chistmas Bird Count time. Doesn't this weather make you want to get out & count birds? Hopefully the forecast is right &...
6 members of the Lethbridge Naturalists Society conducted the first CBC at Milk River today. Although the temperature got up to a pleasant 0 celcius, the...
Went looking for the snowy's I saw yesterday on Twp's 230 and 232 east of Calgary, but had no luck. Did spot a Rough-legged Hawk south of Dalemead at Twp 222...
It's was Quiet out here the last view weeks. A flock of 12 white winged cross bills last week was one of the high lights I guess. But today after the...
Greetings There was a small flock of White-winged Crossbills in the spruce trees that border the west of the ski trails parking lot at Gold Bar Park. On the...
This (Wednesday) afternoon at 4:20 pm there was a GREAT GRAY OWL south of Water Valley. It was on the west side of RR 52, 2.4 kms south of the crossroads. ...
I did the Taber CBC today, with the help of 3 people from Lethbridge, 2 feeder watchers, and a new family who live east of me, who were doing their first bird...
A decision was made in Oct to go for the earliest count day in hopes of beating the freeze-up of Cold Lake, and perhaps get some more favourable weather than...
Greetings The Pine Grosbeaks continue to arrive at 2:45 pm to feed on the berry trees at Picnic site # 1. This time there was one female Purple Finch feeding...
Went for a wander west of Calgary along Hwy 22 from Priddis up to Water Valley today. There was a report of a Great Grey Owl near Water Valley, but I failed to...
Both the Solitaire and the grosbeaks were there between 8:30 and 9:00 this morning as well! John Acorn Edmonton ... [Non-text portions of this message have...
This morning around 8:30 there were 2 Redpolls in the apple tree in my backyard in Westmount. So inspired I made a short visit to Hermitage Park's feeder today...
Hi, will anyone do CBC around Hawrelak Park? I might be able to go out for a few hours and join someone/group! Thank you! Zoltan Domahidi, Edmonton [Non-text...
At 2:30 pm, we just had a female Northern Cardinal in our back yard in Elboya. It seems to now have moved down the back alley. While watching it, also saw an...
Bird has been a no show since I got a quick look at it before the magpie mob chased it out. If anybody is interested these birds give a very very loud whistle...
Hi, walked down today from the Whitemud Equine Farm to Hawrelak Park (Picnic 1). Obviously the Solitaire did not show up at the same time. :) Species observed...
Duly noted, Gus. We have had Northern Cardinal only once before as a count-week bird on the Calgary CBC (in 1993), but never on count-day. It would be good to...
This afternoon we went to Carseland Weir to see if the BELTED KINGFISHER we had seen a few weeks ago was still around. While watching the headworks of the...
Richard Klauke reported a total f 4 Hawk Owls on a trip to Lac La Biche this past week, but found no Great Grays or even Great Horned. 2 of the Hawk Owls were...
After my morning visit/dropoff at RoseHill Landfill SE of Morinville, I decided to head west on TR554 to RR260 and scout out Egg Lake area. Finally came upon...
Greetings All. I did hear that there were no waxwings spotted in Edmonton for the CBC. I was just south of Highway 37 on RR270 and spotted a flock of about 50...
Thanks to everyone who participated in the 58th Calgary Christmas Bird count yesterday, December 20, 2009. Almost 200 people took part in this year's count,...
Met up with Don Delaney from Edmonton today, he was down to visit kin, so we went to see if we could find him a snowy or two. Two was what we found, one female...