Birds
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Amazed!
Sometimes we are witness to some of the most spectacular scenes that nature has to offer. And also on occasion she surprises us with the unusual or unexpected. On those very rare occasions we get both. Thinking the water levels had dropped sufficiently I headed out the night before last night to recover my hide
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The bird not seen, seen
Northern Wheatears (Oenanthe oenanthe) are not really a nemesis bird of mine. That would be Sabine’s Gull. I have seen them (Wheatears that is I’ve never seen a Sabine’s Gull), in Greenland. But they are a bird that I’ve long thought I should see here, and never have. A local bird enthusiast told me when
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Summertime – I and the Bird #78
It’s been hard to think about summer these last couple of weeks. Constant overcast skies, and drizzly foggy weather seemed permanently ensconced over much of the arctic. But the last couple of days have been cloudy free, today was a scorching 10 degrees or so. So it’s appropriate to turn to the latest edition of
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Another book/iPod giveaway
While you're busy heading over to 10,000 Birds trying to win one of the ten copies of Smithsonian Guide to the Birds of North America or the iPod that they're giving away, you might as well head to Naturalist Notebook. Summer is also giving away a copy of the book and an iPod. And all
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Three hikes
On Sunday evening I was looking wistfully out past King George V Mountain, sulking because of the grey cool weather that has been hanging around for a week or so. From time to time Environment Canada posts tantalizing promises of sun, later down the road, only to take them away as time draws closer. Low
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Head south!
If you're tired of all of this northern hemisphere blogging, why not visit Birding in the Falkland Islands, a blog filled with great photos of fantastic southern bird species, and the occasional Southern Right and Sei Whales. Well worth the trip. I know John will recognize those birds. Sigh, time for another trip to the
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Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds
I don't think it is possible to have too many Field Guides. It is almost the same as having too many tools, it just doesn't seem like there could be an theoretical limit. Harper Collins has just published an excellent new one, for those of us who like to get as many as possible, or
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I and the Bird #77
Hey man! It's the Byrds. Er rather the Birds. Head on over to the delightful Great Auk – or Greatest Auk? for all of the Birds hits. You know, songs like To everything Tern Tern Tern, there is a season Tern Tern Tern. It's all there in this edition of I and the Bird. Act
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More Kiggaviarjuk
It's funny just what you can miss in the excitment of things. Today when I was going through some of my photos from my hike the other day I looked at this one, which appears in the previous post, and wondered just why I took it. I zoomed up to the actual pixels and just
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Kiggaviarjuq
With Leah and Travis heading off today out on the land for a week, and with the House being completely booked between today and the middle of August, I thought I had better take advantage of a free day to go for a bit of a hike, and see the Kiggaviarjuk. So before everyone else