Last night at about 9pm we heard a Wilson's Snipe over Horse Creek Valley and this morning at 5am there were two more zooming right above the house when I let...
FOS Swainson's Hawk for me (April 30: 9 pm). Anthony Henday West at 87 Ave. Saw plentiful Red-tailed hawks on the drive back from Jasper along with 3 Ospreys,...
Yesterday Ben Velner and I birded from Chapice Lake eastward to Many Islands Lake and then south and back westward to the Hat. The area eastward from Chapice...
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Andrew Slater
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May 1, 2011 5:18 pm
There was a male Eurasian Wigeon sitting in a stubble field this morning, about half a km east of Sheperd Slough, on the north side of Twp Rd 232. It was with...
Hi Ann, How are water conditions at the Clifford E. Lee nature sanctuary this year? (I heard the ponds there were completely dry last year) Best Regards,...
Last Sunday (April 24) Gerald Romanchuk and I were travelling through the Hanna area at dusk and had 7 Short-Eared Owls on secondary Highway 855 as we moved...
Elbow River Monthly Birding Survey, Stanley Park to Glenmore Dam; 0700-1055 Sun, 01May2011. 100% ice on Reservoir at dam; 10% along river shoreline. Sunny,...
Highlights on a bike ride to Inglewood then south to Lafarge Park, west to Shannon Terrace and north to Glenmore Reservoir were (FOY = first of year for me): ...
Hi Steve, At this point there is water. A little more than last spring but disappointing considering the amount of snow. Nothing like "the old days". We did...
Thanks. I was hoping it was near Beaver Mine in the south near Waterton Park. Oh well, thanks Bill Sent from my BlackBerry® powered by Virgin Mobile. ... ...
This morning Frank Hennessey led eight Nature Calgary members around the Cochrane area culminating in a visit to the yet to be opened Glenmore Ranch Provincial...
This Sunday May 1st, did my annual Sandhill Crane tour, where I nominally start at Drumheller, on to Hanna, then north on Hwy 36 to Forestburg, east to Hwy...
My apologies for repeating most of this post many times. All I can say is it was late and my cut and paste finger must have been twitching. However, I also...
8 buses of inner-city agencies and children, 3 buses for the paying public, over 60 volunteers..and no-one got lost/left behind/bus stuck in the mud!! Lots of...
Yesterday my neighbour mentioned that she had seen two unusual birds at the end of our street. I went to take a look and discovered that they were Chukars,...
Nimali Seneviratne requested me to post the following: Nimali Seneviratne and Isabel Anderson saw 26 Hudsonian Godwits in flight over Basin One at Frank Lake...
Bob deserves a huge congratulations for organizing this event! It wouldn't happen without his tremendous efforts - months & months of putting everything...
Yesterday at 4:30 p.m., a Common Loon flew calling overhead at the Willow Ridge Communtiy Center. Later in the evening while out in my yard I spotted an...
Spent a couple of hours this afternoon birding the ponds south and east of Beaumont. Water levels are high in all the ponds and Schultz Lake except for...
The first jacket free walk in the Whitemud Ravine this spring found the woods ringing with bird song. At least 9 Purple Finches were foraging and singing...
On Sunday we went back to the Pond Behind the Shawnessy Library where there were now 8 common loons to be found. The pair of red-necked grebes was still there...
Howdy, I spent about 1.5 hours at Kinbrook Island PP (south of Brooks) today. Lake Newell still has lots of ice and it still looks somewhat like winter there. ...
