I've had a steady trickle of migrants through my yard in Lansdowne (Edmonton) this past week. Highlights have been Magnolia, Blackpoll, Yellow-Rumped and...
Hi All, I took a road trip to Waterton yesterday and watched seven Great Blue Heron's feeding in the shallows of the Maskonage. A Belted Kingfisher was also...
Hi Don, Your bird is a Red-eyed Vireo. Note the black border to the gray crown. The red iris can be hard to see, even on adults, but the iris of your bird ...
Greetings I have just posted two Flycatcher images. "Alder 1" was taken today in the hill above Emily Murphy Park. "Alder 2" was taken in my Westmout back yard...
Did a Wyndham-Carseland plus prairie loop this am. At 11:00 I turned off sec.799 (Blackie Rd.) onto T210 to see a lot of large black birds to the southwest -...
Yesterday I witnessed a phenomenon which in all my years as a birder I had never seen before. As I was watching some shorebirds in a slough SE of Calgary, a...
Hi Jackie and I took a run down to Frank Lake via Highway 2 to 547 to 23 and west to the blind entrance at Frank Lake to look for White-faced Ibis and the...
Unfortunately, I didn't have binocs with me, but while on the summit of Mt. Sparrowhawk (26 km south of Canmore) this afternoon, two swifts (sp.) flew around...
Today Pam and I saw 9 stilt sandpipers and 13 greater white fronted geese at the cattleland sloughs in the late afternoon(1700 +). 10 black crowned night...
Spent the day at Elk Island today - canoeing on Astotin Lake and then walking along the shore of Tawayik Lake in the evening. On Astotin we saw Common Loon,...
We had a bit of a distraction from our home renovations today. About 9 am I glanced out the window and noticed a female Yellow Warbler foraging in the...
Today a flock of somewhere between 120 (counted) and 200 (estimated) American Robins flew, landed, perched, foraged through our yard. A large number of...
On Sunday we watched a Pygmy Nuthatch with a few Red-breasted nuthatches, pine siskins and ww crossbills. We saw it and heard it well for about fifteen...
I decided to bird the area around St Albert today. Starting around 8am I visited Lacombe Lake Park (LLP), the DU interpretative trail at Big Lake (DU), Murray...
Today the craziness was less around the house (more work) with far fewer species observed, but the high point today was having no less than 100 Yellow-rumped...
Great sighting Dave! The only record that I'm aware of for Banff and Jasper national parks is of a bird seen visiting a bird feeder in Banff between the 19th...
Hi, I was going through some of my pictures from last summer and fall, and came across one that puzzled me a bit. It's from Beaverhill Lake (Francis'...
My spotter out there, she delivers for the Post Office, has just called to inform me of quite large flocks stopping by for breakfast! Black Nugget Rd area...
Greetings, I have had a nice parade of warblers through my backyard in north Edmonton, especially in about mid-August. I took a lot of photos, and was excited...
Hi Doug Just for context, Michelle and I believe we had Nashville Warbler on Blackmud Creek in August in 1999. This would have been a breeding plumaged male...
Doug, Yes your picture does look like a Nashville, the lack of a gray wash to the upper chest and what appears to be pale or whitish undertail coverts seem to...
8 minute walk from car to edge of muddy area and 30 odd yards from all the shore birds!!! Also 6,000 Snow Geese at half mile distance. B B Plover...100. ...
Yesterday (Sep 5) Richard Klauke, Ted Hindmarch and I watched a first-year Mew Gull at Cattle Land Slough. The bird was resting with a dozen Ring-billed Gulls...
After seeing a couple of Great Egrets early this spring at Hastings Lake, I hadn't seen any all summer. Then tonight, viola - there they were, three Great...
Brian Elder, Ray Woods and I did a Big Day on Tuesday, September 4, 2007, in the Calgary Region (80-km radius circle), birding continuously over a 15 hour...
I got a bit of a prod from Mike Mulligan yesterday suggesting I do a posting of what is going on in the birding world here in the undiscovered Eden of Canada...
Visited parts of Banff, Vermilion Lakes Drive, and Minnewanka Loop. Numbers are for the 7th unless otherwise noted. Canada Goose - 5 American Wigeon - 21 ...
