Saturday afternoon, 28 Sep, Richard Klauke and I joined another club member, Mick Ellenwood, on Mick's sail boat for a check off-shore in Cold Lake. Within 30...
Hi Gang! I was out in Banff for a meeting this morn and thought I'd take a little sidetrip out to Lake Louise to see what i could find there. I didn't see ...
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Oct 4, 2002 1:29 pm
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Oct 4, 2002 2:38 pm
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There were two adult breeding-plumage Pacific Loons on Glenmore Reservoir in Calgary this morning around 8 am, swimming and diving, seen from the point of land...
Fri 4 Oct 02 - beautiful clear autumn afternoon/evening. Between 6-7PM this evening I observed an extralimital female Harlequin Duck feeding about 100m...
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Jean Marie Moore
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Oct 5, 2002 1:41 am
- RBA * Alberta (Canada) * Calgary, AB * Oct 3, 2002 * ABCA0210.03 - Birds mentioned Snow Goose Surf Scoter Sharp-shinned Hawk BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE Herring...
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Malcolm McDonald
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Oct 6, 2002 11:48 pm
Having visited Glenmore reservoir for two mornings in a row and failing to find Bill's 2 Pacific Loons, we visited Barrier Lake in the Kananaskis valley this...
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Jean Marie Moore
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Oct 8, 2002 3:38 am
- RBA * Alberta (Canada) * Calgary, AB * Oct 7,2002 * ABCA0210.07 - Birds mentioned Common Loon Pacific Loon Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Rough-legged Hawk ...
There was an American Tree Sparrow and a first winter Swamp Sparrow in the shrubbery near the little concrete dam west of the pond E of 14 St in Confederation...
There was an adult male Surf Scoter and four females and immatures in the eastern part of Glenmore Reservoir in Calgary this morning, plus one immature...
Richard Klauke and I, joined by Sandra Arsenault Sat morning, birded the Cold Lake area Saturday and through noon Sunday. Was it coincidence that Saturday 5...
While walking through Kerry Wood Nature Center, suprised a magnificent adult northern goshawk dining on a freshly killed magpie. He let us observe him from...
There was a juvenile Thayer's Gull on Glenmore Reservoir in Calgary early this morning, seen from the point of land west of the Canoe Club on the north side of...
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Milton Spitzer
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Oct 9, 2002 7:55 pm
Elaine and I travelled to Barrier Lake this morning to look for possible Loons, to no avail as Barrier Lake was nearly birdless except for a couple of specs....
Last night (Tuesday 8 October), there was a single, adult male Black- throated Blue Warbler at Kinbrook Island Provincial Park in Brooks, AB. The bird is an...
Birding today with Al Borgardt, Dick and Lenora Flynn, and Bernard and Therese Goulet, we saw a family of seven Surf Scoters (including one male in breeding...
I posted new photos under a temporary album in the " Photos " section ( new photos ). These were all taken last month. Between work and the weather I have not...
Hello everyone. 2 Three-toed Woodpeckers were reported in Bowness Park in Calgary yesterday. Details are here -- http://weaselhead.org/recent_birds.asp Best...
Hi Birders Are there any accepted records for Prothonotary Warbler in Alberta, if so could you please let me have details. We currently have two confirmed...
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Andrew Slater
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Oct 11, 2002 2:55 am
Hi Derrick, No. There are no accepted reports of Prothonotory Warbler to date in Alberta, nor any reports at all so far as I know. Pretty exciting to have two...
Hi Andrew Thanks for the info. They are the first live records, last year a dead bird was found in Victoria. Maybe you guys will be lucky and one will swing by...
At approx 530PM this evening I observed my first Varied Thrush in the Cold Lake area. The Varied Thrush was in company with an American Robin. It was seen in...
Hi everyone. I had three Purple Finches in my yard in Oakridge for most of the afternoon. One was a male in full purple plumage. The others were either females...
Visiting the St. Paul area today. Went out just about sunup to check out Therien Lake. It was –4 with a wind but no snow in the air or on the ground ...
A rather long trip to Frank Lake and McGreggor Lake to look for Snow Geese, calling in at Namaka Lake on the way back, turned up about 70 Snow Geese at the SW...
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Gustave J. Yaki
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Oct 13, 2002 12:25 am
On todays Calgary Field Naturalists' Society's Golden Eagle trip to Mt. Lorette, under ideal weather conditions, a total of 150 eagles were sighted by the time...
Things are very slow in the north but there are still a few ducks (lots of ruddy's)geese and gulls. The raptors heading your way is down to just the odd one....