Hi Bruce, Can you tell us where this marsh is near Saskatoon? Thanks. Gord and Reta Taylor ... From: Bruce To: Saskbirds@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday,...
Gordon A. Taylor
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Oct 2, 2008 1:03 am
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Today, Jim Cummings and I traveled to Last Mountain Lake to visit the usual spots near Regina Beach. Another great weather day; however, the birds were...
I saw a Brown Creeper in Candycane Park last evening.There was also a White Breasted Nuthatch at this location.There are large numbers of American Robins and...
This morning, Jim Cummings and I visited the Quinn Dive/Goose Hill Park areas. Here are some of the species we saw. 1) Belted Kingfisher. 2) A couple of Blue...
Hi there, thanks for the directions to the Diefenbaker Dam Frank, we also took your book along with us, what a wealth of information! We got to the dam around...
I'm still working on the Yellow-billed Loon :-) At an un-godly hour this morning I traveled out to Osler to meet up with the friendly land-owner Bruce who is...
Harvey and I spent a few hours at Gardiner Dam today looking for the loon. We saw three loons, two Common and one we couldn't get a good look at due to the...
Hello, Jan has been rehabbing an Evening Grosbeak that will soon be ready to be released. We would be interested in learning about the location of any recent ...
Stan, The most recent flock of Evening Grosbeaks I've seen were at Lac La Peche in August. I don't know if anyone has seen any since, but as you are probably ...
I observed a pair of GH Owls perched in a Willow tree on the edge of the marsh about 6 p.m.The location was just south of Faraway Place.I spotted them while...
This morning I drove out to Nickle Lake and sat in one spot for an hour (in the car as it's so darn windy out). Not too much in species at that location but...
Forgot to mention that a River Otter is also in our Weyburn area, which is unusual I think. Friends reported it a few days ago and it has been seen three days...
Fellow birders, We just had a very drab looking female Cape May Warbler in our yard, poking around the Golden Elder. I guess after the rain showers and heavy...
Nick The male Cape May Warbler at the Quinn Drive Alley location was seen at least twice on Friday and not at all on Saturday, to my knowledge. In my...
Some friends from Alberta are arriving this week to search for this species among others. If you have any recent knowledge of these please email me directly or...
The Wascana Lake aeration sites are providing excellent 'upwelling' locations for foraging gulls. Some gulls tend to concentrate picking abundant prey from the...
This morning, slightly south and west of Meacham, tucked into overwhelming numbers of Sandhill Cranes, two Whooping Cranes. Bill Saskatoon. [Non-text portions...
William Davenport
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Oct 5, 2008 8:12 pm
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We are ba--aa-cckkk.... got home from our Montreal trip around 11:30 AM yesterday (we stayed in Regina Friday nite and drove home yesterday morning). I have...
Today, we had temps of 14C and some rain showers (the rain was coming down pretty good at times this morning!) We had a nice variety of birds in our yard and...
Jim Cummings and I saw one of these at close range. It jumped up into the top of the cattails along the Marsh at Goose Hill Park. He also saw a Common...
Hi Bob. Great sightings by you, Jim, Rocky, etc. at Wascana. I was wondering if you could clarify exactly where some of the locations are that you mention. As...
Val Most of my/our sightings are in the Quinn Drive Alley and across the road in Goose Hill Park. We tend to walk along the edge of Wascana Marsh in Goose Hill...
I saw a Northern Shrike near the northern edge of the habitat park this evening.I watched him briefly as he was catching insects on the ground.This is the same...
Spotted a flock of birds circling about a half mile to the northwest of my yard this morning while working. All I could tell was that they were big and mostly...
In the short time spent outside on this cold windy day I heard three separate flocks of Sandhill Cranes chorkling over the farmyard. We looked closely but...
Well, its cold enough now ( in the mornings anyway )that I've prepared the yard for old man Winter. I now have an old upturned coffee table top sitting on a...
Just joined! Looking forward to peeking at the albums, and enjoying all the photos. I've summered 3 yrs at Rowan's Ravine on Last Mountain Lake, and for the...
It's been a priviledge hosting the 10 whoopers near Osler since Sept. 20th. A good number of others have had the chance to view the 10 adult birds.. truly a...
This morning I was logging a cemetery a few miles north of Yellow Grass, no occupied farms or towns closeby at all, and was pleasantly surprised to have the...
Today, I explored the area from Lumsden Beach to Little Arm along the southeast shoreline of Last Mountain Lake. Key observation points, including some from...