Birds
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I love it when a plan comes together
I'd been planning to get out to do some bird surveying for the past little while but have been mostly thwarted. A couple of blown tires and other responsibilities have kept me from spending any real time. And birds from the south should be arriving these days. So my plan was to get a babysitter
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I and the Bird #75
Sri Lanka has got to be on almost every bird watchers dream list of locations to visit, and few people know its avifauna as well as Amila the host of Gallicissa, the blog of a birder in an endemic hotspot. He’s done an admirable job of hosting this edition of the premier bird carnival on
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They have returned
Yesterday, some gulls returned to Arctic Bay, possibly even beating the Snow Buntings back. I’ve been anxiously awaiting the return of the Snow Buntings, listening and watching and hadn’t seen any yet, when Leah told me last night that there were Nauja (gulls) down on the sea ice. So this afternoon Hilary and I took
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The look of TBOABN
I’ve sort of settled on a look for The Birds of Arctic Bay, Nunavut (TBOABN) after fiddling with the design during the weekend. Once I add some content and put it up it should look something like this…
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Heat, and the germ of an idea.
I just got in from enjoying a coffee on our deck. It has been a lazy day so far, and I’m actually the only one awake right now. But it is a typically bright sunny day and I headed out to the corner of the deck between the living room and Hilary’s room to enjoy
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I and the Bird 74. For the price of song.
The latest I and the Bird is up at Con’s World. As always the best bird posts from around the world, including Sri Lanka can be found there. Now I can’t get that Goldfinch song out of my head.
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Avalanche!
Saturday afternoon I headed out to the St George Society Cliffs to check on the Gyrfalcons. It was a beautiful sunny day, but a little breezy. I wasn’t too concerned that I couldn’t see any birds. I assumed that one bird was on the nest, tucked back in the aerie where I couldn’t see, and
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Return of the Kiggavik
I’ve been trying to get back out to the St George Society Cliffs, ever since my last trip out there, to see if the Gyrfalcons had returned. Unfortunately something always seemed to get in the way. It doesn’t help that only one of the snow machines is working and Leah relies on hers as much
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Ye olde I and Thee Bird
Snail, who lives in the Great Southern Lande, and writes thee Snail’s Eye View has discovered a lost Diary of Samuel Pepys, who recounts reading great bird posting from all over the world. As always this edition of I and the Bird is chock full of the best bird blogging today. Read them all, to