Birds
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Not the Plover
One of the beautiful thing about nature is, if you go out searching for something, she’ll surprise you with something else. We had a couple of hours of free time this afternoon so we decided to head to Nanisivik so I could seek out a bird that I hadn’t seen for awhile, the Common Ringed
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I and the Bird #26 – Gooooaaalllllll!!!
It’s the last installment of I and the Bird for its first year, and Patrick at the Hawkowl’s Nest has put together a World Cup themed post. As usual, there are a wealth of excellent posts to choose from. Some that particularily caught my eye were Bill of the Bird’s tale of finally finding his
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First Friday
Amy Hooper, the force behind Wild Bird on the Fly, has decided to rectify the dearth of Birding Fiction out there with a contest. Her brainchild, First Friday, is set to be a monthly fiction contest, to encourage birding Fiction. The rules are fairly simple, 500 words of birding themed fiction, and no anthropomorphizing the
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I and the Bird #25
Rob, of Rob’s Idaho Perspective is the latest host of I and the Bird, the premiere carnival that turns one year old in two more editions. As always it is filled with excellent posts on Birds from the whole world over. Head straight over there, as the Bird flys and get reading. By the way,
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Birdsong
I’m sitting here, in the livingroom, listening to birdsong just outside the door. The House is quiet, our only client having left for the morning. Travis and Leah are still asleep, Hilary is in my lap, smiling of course, and the smell of the coffee is wafting up from the kitchen. I’m not yet ready
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Big Year List Update
I know some of you have been following my Arctic Bay Big Year list so I thought I would update for you today…Location is Arctic Bay unless otherwise noted. Common Name Specific Name Date Raven Corvus corax January 1st, 2006Snow
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Some Odds and sods
One of my favourite birds has made it to Nunavut!! Granted they are still a long way from here, however the first (I believe) record of Magpies (Pica hudsonia) in Nunavut has occurred this spring in Baker Lake. Here is a CBC news story on them (via Circumpolar Musings). It was a gorgeous evening last
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I and The Bird #24
You know, I give up. There are far far too many creative, talented people out there. I mean I had been thinking about hosting another I and The Bird but the hosts keep raising the bar higher and higher and… Carel Brest Van Kempen, the extremely talented host of Rigor Vitae has offered up one
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More arrivals
I was just standing on our deck, drinking my morning coffee, taking in the sun and the sounds of the community. It is amazing how warm it feels, standing out there in just a t-shirt (well not JUST a t-shirt but you know what I mean). The actual temperature is -3C (27F) but it is
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Qaulluqtaaq
I guess spring has arrived here. It was another gorgeous day out and I spent a little time working on my four stroke lawn ornament that some people might call a snowmobile. I thought I heard birdsong, a Snow Bunting but when I stopped what I was doing and looked, and listened some more I