All The Lumsden Community Valley Association is searching for a Burrowing Owl image for their brochure. If anyone has such a photograph and wishes to share it...
My first four species of the year: 1. House Sparrow 2. Dark-eyed Junco 3. White-breasted Nuthatch 4. American Goldfinch The Goldfinch was the first of the...
Hi everyone. We ended good old 2011 with Rock Pigeons! This morning it was hard to miss our first 40 House Sparrows ground feeding. Right away a DOWNY...
What a way to start the New year with a typo (he not here)! On another note Rebecca Beam of Silver Grove had a Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch at her feeder for four...
Hi birders: My non-motorized birding list (based in Penticton, BC) for 2011 topped out at 203 species and 2151 kilometres, so I squeaked by my two goals of 200...
Fellow Birders, Officially Happy New Year to you all! Today, in spite of a brisk west breeze and minus 20 wind chills, Kathy H. and I decided to go for a quick...
I've posted another picture from summer for help with. I think they are juvenile and a female Ruddy Duck, but am wondering if I'm right because of the lack of...
I spent New Year's Eve at the Crossing in Grasslands National Park so my last bird/mammal sightings of 2011 were magpie in Val Maire and a beautiful coyote...
It was hard to count the Redpolls and Chickadees, as they buzzed around between the feeders and the trees, so I'm estimating 2-3 dozen Common Redpolls and...
They don't always hold their tail up and I think it's mostly breeding season behavior. The bluish bill and the streak under the eye is characteristic of...
I know this is a bird line but we've mentioned herptile sightings too so I thought I'd pass on this unfortunate news. In Grasslands National Park there is a...
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William Davenport
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Jan 2, 2012 7:13 pm
At 12:40 we were delighted by the re-appearance of the Robin ... first sighting since the Boxing Day count. Bill Saskatoon [Non-text portions of this message...
I took a little trip to the east end of Regina this morning. By the time I got home,I figure I had seen about twenty ravens. I may have seen a couple twice....
Good morning all, Yesterday was the annual Pike Lake Christmas Bird Count. Birding conditions were pretty miserable to say the least, with gusting winds of up...
well,ravens are famous for being opportunists From: Kevin Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 8:07 AM To: Saskbirds@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Saskbirds] Re: regina...
Hi! I checked into getting a Sibley's guide (book not eguide) as I've been using about 5 other birding books but not Sibley's. (Al Smith's, Audobon, etc) So I...
Both work fine for Saskatchewan. If I had to pick one I would have the western since the eastern omits or truncates some Rocky Mountian birds and we are more...
Mom & I went for a brief drive this morning and saw 11 MOURNING DOVES in a yard under some bins. We also saw about 17 SHARP-TAILED GROUSE and on our way home...
Guides very so much as to a person's personal preference and also if you want to specialize or focus on one group. Bob gave good reasons to buy the Stokes...
Today with our warmer weather I see there area few Dark-eyed Juncos back at the feeders. We have 4 Common Redpolls today, 36 House Sparrows and 8 Black-billed...
When I ordered my Sibley I was well aware of the limitations of my old second edition 1961 Peterson's Western guide. It's good for Saskatchewan, most of time...
The Ruffed Grouse showed up tonight, cleaning up under the feeders. There are still swarms of Common Redpolls and the resident BC Chickadees here. There was a...
Hi After a phone call from Bob alerting me to American Robins and a Rusty Blackbird near the storm drain north of the U of R I wandered around Wascana for a...
