Wildlife

• The good Raven seal of approval

  I’ve decided that the House seems to be a magnet for animals.  Of course I’ve mentioned the House Hare, who while he/she doesn’t stay around all of the time, spends a day or so every week here. There were the two wolves that had stopped by this past winter, and the lemming.  About a week

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• How did this happen?

  Seems like I just read all of my favourite blogs and now everyone has two or three posts up.  Did I get sucked into a vortex or something?  Not only that but two of them are carnivals! I really really said I was going to have a post for I and The Bird #20, seeing

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• House Hare podcast

  Here is a short, 15 second, Quicktime movie of the House Hare in lea of the house in today’s mini-blizzard. I actually went out to film some Ravens playing in the wind, but of course they disappeared by the time I freed myself. So here is our resident Arctic Hare.

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• Red Fox

  Last Sunday I took part in the Great Backyard Bird Count here in Arctic Bay.  I birded by truck (what can I say, I’ve got a BIG backyard, it was COLD, and I had Leah, Travis and Hilary with me). The results were pretty predictable for me, I didn’t add any species to my 2006

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• Ukaliq

  Well, the fears for the population of Arctic Hare (Lepus arcticus) living under The House, have proven to be groundless. After an absence of a couple of days, after the wolves appeared, the entire population (one) has returned to the house.  The hare’s tracks re appeared at the House about three days after the wolves

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• Amaruq

  There have been wolves at the door. Two of them. Well, not exactly at the door, but right beside the house. Yesterday morning, Leah’s brother Johnny came in to work and told me that there was a wolf’s (Canis lupus arctos) tracks beside the house, right under the window of Travis’ room.  Both he and

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