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Hi All My first bird of the year - Canada Goose My best of the day - Golden-crowned Kinglets. I saw the kinglets at Shannon Terrance - the gate was locked when...
First bird of the year, Mallard flying over Deerfoot Trail. I spent the morning walking around Carburn park. Nineteen species, including four Greater Scaup,...
Today I photographed a bird in Griffiths woods. At first I thought gray jay but the bill seems wrong. I am posting 3 photos in my album Tanya B.I would...
I thought you all may enjoy these images? I took these with teley last spring. A single raven caught the gopher out on its first peak of spring. Unable to prey...
Thanks all for your efforts to those who provided their insight. I know it takes time and effort for the help. any other input will be appreciated All the Best...
Happy New Year! Guy and I decided to kick off our 2008 birding year with a visit to Elk Island N.P. , which was not a bad idea! Upon entering the park, we saw...
We had 19 people out today for the 4th Opal CBC (the circle is centered on the hamlet(?) of Opal). It'll take me a day or so to put the #'s together, but I'll...
Hi Tanya I'm sure that your photos are of a White-breasted Nuthatch. The pale color on the underside of the bottom mandible that gets darker near the tip, the...
Greetings A Song Sparrow is still frequenting the feeders at Hermitage Park along with the Chickadees and Redpolls. A group of about twenty White- winged...
Thanks everyone for your responses. I was sure it wasn't a nuthatch. It was on the top of a tall tree and appeared to be robin sized. I guess if it were puffed...
Driving on RR285 just east of Calgary at 10 am New Year's Day, there was a Bald Eagle in a tree near the Seventh Day Adventist Church (north of 17 Ave SE and...
Hi Joan & Malcolm,
Any documentation on the Medicine Hat Screech-owl that might permit an
identification (a Rare Bird Form is attached)?
Many thanks (and a...
Walking in the Capitol Hill district of Northwest Calgary today I came upon a pair of Gray Partridge hunkered down on a residential lawn (it was very windy)....
Hi Bob, Gray Partridge are fairly common on farmland around the city. I don't know their status within Calgary as a whole, but there has been a flock in the...
Greetings I drove around Elk Island Park and Beaverhills Lake today hoping to see an Owl, but no such luck. I did encounter a flock of 100+ Snow Buntings....
There's also a flock of partidges in and around the 14th Avenue ravine bordering Christie. I believe there was a Chukar last spring in the SW area bordered by ...
Enjoyed my first winter and 2008 sighting of an American Three-Toed Woodpecker this morning in Block 7 in the Calling Lake residential/cabin area just north of...
I was surprised with a flock of over 1000 Snow Buntings this morning, around 9 a.m. southwest of Calgary. I was traveling on Hwy 22, south of Hwy 22X, and the...
Additional sightings of Willow Ptarmigan are being reported from Ft McMurray. Linda Ball reported on 31 Dec that she had been lucky enough to see 4 ptarmigan...
Rig move tomorrow so drove in from Muddy Creek to Grande Prairie via the Two Lakes Road (102km). The main haul road was busy, so I had to pick my spots to...
Posted on behalf of the compiler, Frank Hennessey. Canada Goose-40 Mallard-280 Bald Eagle-1 Northern Harrier-1 Northern Goshawk-1 Rough-legged Hawk-5 Golden...
Greetings I stopped by the feeders at Hawrelak Park in Edmonton today. At one point in time there were 2 Hairy Woodpeckers, 2 Downy Woodpeckers, and 2 Pileated...
I was out walking today in my pasture west of Strathmore and came across a huge flock of Redpolls. A few I took pictures of look like Hoary Redpolls to me but...
