Birds
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Springing forth
Things are beginning to heat up up here. Not weatherwise, although it did manage to hit zero today, which is probably a first since September or October. But the birds definitely know that spring is a foot. A little more than a week ago I saw the first Glaucous Gulls of the season, and counted
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Old slides
While looking for an elusive slide of Andean Condor for the last post, I came across a box of slides from the Arctic Cruise I led in 2000, and scanned some to share. Bylot Island through the late night fog. Iceberg off Pond Inlet at the same time. Iceberg, Bylot Island and Cotton Grass. Although
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Whither the Condor?
This past week saw the death of California Condor #286, another blow to the Condor recovery program. I've never seen a California Condor in the wild, and truth be told those in the wild currently aren't truly wild, helped along by us. I have, however, seen Andean Condor in the wild, and my life is
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Isn’t that always the way
I borrow a friends good telephoto lens to 1) check it out before I decide to buy one myself and 2) try and get some sharper pictures of the Gyrfalcons. Head out to the aerie and what do I see?
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One Snowbunting does not a Spring make…
…nor does one fine day. But the Gyrfalcons back on the nest? I'll take that as a sign of Spring and a very fine day, thank you very much. In some ways it has been a bit of an unusual year for birds thus far. In mid January a Gyrfalcon was seen in town, and
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must… post… something…
I swear all I want to do is poke fun at Swine Flu, and I know I shouldn't. Perhaps it was because I was a young impressionable lad the last great Swine Flu pandemic in 1976. Instead, I'll point you towards the latest installment of I and The Bird. Number 99 it is, incredibly enough.
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Asleep at the Wheel
With the temperatures now in the minus single digits, calm winds and cloudless skies, it is easy to get lost in the day. When I'm inside I look longingly down Adam's Sound, thinking that that is a trip I need to make soon, before the cracks appear. My thoughts increasingly turn to the birds that
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I and the Bird, #98
Ramble on over to Nick Sly's Biological Ramblings for a heck of a day list, the 98th edition of I and The Bird. As is always the case there are great posts about birds, and birding for you to read. A couple of specific posts for you to check out. Amila of Gallicissa, a blog