I walked around La Broquerie for an hour yesterday afternoon to see if I could find the Eurasian Collared-Dove reported several weeks ago by Garry Budyk. I was...
Hi all While trundling around some back roads northeast of Hadashville yesterday (May 20), I saw 4 Trumpeter Swans fly up from a bare cultivated field and...
I have been training crew in the Tolstoi area and south-eastern Manitoba over the past 6 days and this has already produced some interesting early records. The...
Hi Everyone, Frank and I drove out to Netley Marsh today. After reading Charlie McPherson's post about his Mother's Day Motherlode we figured we would see...
Wendy, your description suggests a Western Grebe--have a look in your field guide, or look online and see what you think. Cheers, Rob Parsonstemporarily in...
I had a marvellous bird outing at the marsh yesterday - over 30 species while sitting or walking just a quarter mile; that many and more in the next quater...
Hi Wendy, It's great to see your enthusiasm for birds - keep it up and the ID skills will come. The yellow bird is definitely an American Goldfinch, the...
Hi Wendy, It's great to see your enthusiasm for birds - keep it up and the ID skills will come. The yellow bird is definitely an American Goldfinch, the...
Had a good view of a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher this morning in the yard along with a smattering of migrating warblers (interestingly, almost all were singing)....
Hello all, This long weekend on the 20th and 21st my husband(Brian) and I opened the cottage and in between getting the place ready for summer I was able to...
Hi All: I am going thru some of my photos and realized I had a few (4) unidentified bird photos (3 were taken in 2010; 1 this month). I need the help of...
Hi, The mystery of this bird keeps me on my toes I took pictures on Wednesday the 16th on Thursday the 17th the 2 birds flew past our front garden heading...
My turn to try and ID the latest birds! For those wanting larger pictures, if you click on the link above the picture that says original you'll often get a...
Hi All: Regarding my earlier request for help with the bird identifications in our yard (4 photos), I would like to thank Christian Artuso. I can now file...
Hi All: Thanks also to Carrie for her input and help with my ID's. I just read her post after sending mine just now. I had received an email from Christian...
When I pulled into the parking lot this morning for Birds and Breakfast at Fort Whyte Alive a Green Heron flew low over the car and east over the small marsh...
Hello all, Two common nighthawks were heard and seen flying over Kingsway Ave. in the River Heights area of Winnipeg tonight around dusk, 9:45 p.m. A.J. Levin ...
Just had a singing Connecticut Warbler and first of year Alder Flycatcher + another Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Bob Shettler Headingley [Non-text portions of...
Thanks to the coordinating efforts of Dale Banman a highly successful Whitewater Lake Bird Festival tour - or rather series of tours - took place from the...
Hi All Emmy and I were out visiting my atlas squares in the Pembina Valley on Monday and observed a Golden Winged Warbler. We were watching some birds bathing...
We have prolific growth of Red-osier dogwoods beside our house which must harbor many insects because it has attracted a pair of Magnolia warblers and two...
It's interesting you should mention this because we have been watching monarch butterflies in the yard for a number of days now. While watching the birds...
I have posted what I believe to be a Least Sandpiper that I captured at Fort Whyte in Winnipeg on May 20, 2012. If anyone can confirm identification please do...
Hi, Last Night just after 9-00 pm 2 Common Nighthawks Hawking insects over this area of NW Winnipeg ,Bob Robinson. [Non-text portions of this message have...
One wednesday evening in Neepawa I saw a pair of chimney swifts flying with purple martins and common nighthawks. Yesterday while at work by Eden I was...
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De Smet, Ken (CON)
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May 25, 2012 3:38 pm
Before anyone gets too excited, both of these were no doubt migrants but thought I`d mention them anyway. On Tuesday I had a Northern Parula (singing no less)...
On Thursday May 24 , Deanna and I returned to the Portage Sandhills and I obtained record photos and heard the song ( two different songs actually ) of the...
It was a banner afternoon at the Riverton Sandy Bar for observing high Arctic shorebirds resting and forging before the next leg of their migration north. I...
Gene Walz and I headed out yesterday for a short day of birding around Ste Genevieve area. We encountered some good birds: Brown Thrasher, Black-billed Cuckoo,...
Hello, I don't normally post, but thought I should. I also realize that this may create some sort of controversy. Regardless, last weekend I was on a canoe...
