The Midnapore Great Horned Owls are significantly advanced in their development than other nests we are visiting. When I banded them they had some flight...
After stepping out of the shower this morning, I looked out of the bathroom window to investigate what sounded like Red Crossbill calls. Sure enough, there...
Graeme, Thank you very much for your offer. Dr. Ross Lein at the University of Calgary has already loaned me a pair. Thanks again though, Grahame Grahame M....
May 1,late afternoon cycled from Midnapore to the 22x bridge and beyond and found 27 spec.of birds.2 male Kestrels ,2 Redtailed Hawks,3 Western Grebes,many...
Romana Windsteig
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May 2, 2002 2:21 am
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- RBA * Alberta (Canada) * Calgary, AB * April 29, 2002 * ABCA0204.29 - Birds mentioned - Transcript Hotline: City of Calgary Wildlife Information Line...
Andrew Purvis
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May 2, 2002 4:43 am
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TUNDRA SWAN's began passing through the area in good numbers on 28 Apr. Mick Ellenwood reported a flock of approx 50 that date south of Twp Rd 625 east of Cold...
Hi, We may get spring after all this year. The day started out below freezing but quickly warmed. I had a marvellous afternoon marred only by the fact that...
There was a pair of Harlequin Ducks (male and female) about 100 m upstream from the Louise Bridge (10th St W) in Calgary this morning, Thursday. They landed in...
I was out for some birding with my friend, Dennis Burns today. Good numbers of RING-NECKED DUCKS were present on ponds northeast of Millarville as was a pair...
I decided to take advantage of the weather as the next few days forecast do not promise to be very good for bird photography and took a walk through the edge...
Hi everyone. Spent 7 hours in the Weaselhead today looking primarily for hawks and marsh birds. Didn't spend a lot of time looking at the birds on the resevoir...
Spent an enjoyable half hour or so at The Inglewood Bird Sanctuary just after 9 this morning watching an Osprey drag a fairly large fish around from perch to...
A recent CFNS excursion to Carburn Park in southeast Calgary on Tuesday evening April 30, 2002 produced 51 species. They were: Common Loon, Red-necked Grebe,...
Susan Costello
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May 3, 2002 3:44 am
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2 May - Checked the two sloughs on Twp Rd 634 and on Rge Rd 424 again this evening and found the first spring HORNED GREBE had arrived. In addition, the number...
An early-morning drive through the snow storm today revealed the first Whimbrels of the spring. I stopped to scan a flock of Marbled Godwits feeding in a wet...
Lloyd and Yolanda Ben...
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May 3, 2002 4:07 pm
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CALGARY FIELD NATURALISTS SOCIETY field trip reports, 1 & 2 May2002. The monthly Elbow Valley field trip with ten participants on 01 May, from Stanley Park to...
Gustave J. Yaki
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May 3, 2002 9:37 pm
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Just spent an hour and a half pre-dusk in Fish Creek Provincial Park just north of St. Mary's College. There is a lot of snow on the bushes and undergrowth...
After a bit of a time lag I finally got my sightings for last Sunday, April 28, counted up, so here are the results of 14 hours at the raptor watch site at Mt....
- RBA * Alberta (Canada) * Calgary, AB * May 2,2002 * ABCA0205.02 - Birds mentioned American White Pelican Tundra Swan - incl Bewick's subsp. Eurasian Wigeon ...
Jean Marie Moore
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May 4, 2002 6:31 pm
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Andrew Slater will probably post this also. He just reported a Little Gull to me to send around the phone-around bird alert. He saw it in the Irricana Sloughs...
I see Bill Wilson has been admirably quick off the mark and posted this while I was still taking my boots off! The adult, breeding plumage Little Gull was at...
Andrew Slater
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May 4, 2002 10:22 pm
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On Saturday, May 4, sixteen people paticipated in what was advertized as a liesurely look at birds on the prairie east of Calgary led by Ian Halladay. The trip...
There was no sign of the Little Gull around 5 pm today (Saturday). The Bonaparte's Gulls were still there, along with a couple of Forster's Terns. However, it...
Late this afternoon, after reading Andrew's and Bill's postings, I drove to the described location. Arriving at 5:40 pm I saw the gull flying from my van and...
Mike or JoAnn Mulligan
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May 5, 2002 4:06 am
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Jim Black and myself saw the Little Gull at 10:05, Sunday May 5 at the same location the Mike Muligan refined. Gary Tomasson 244.3109 ... From: Mike or JoAnn...
New Contacts for the Alberta Bird Atlas The past coordinator for the Calgary-Bow Valley region of the Bird Atlas (Christa Beckmann) has moved on and is doing...
Mike Mulligan and I also saw the bird this morning -- about 50 minutes earlier than Gary and Jim. A marvellous sight, especially the comparison with 15 or so...
My sincere thanks to Gary for phoning me from the site. I got away at 10:30 and arrived there an hour later. Managed several pics which may not turn our very...
Bill Walker
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May 5, 2002 7:54 pm
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The little Gull was still present at the described location on Sunday from 1200-1315 hours and observed by Gerry Pilny abd myself. Other interesting birds seen...
