This week I am sharing some images of a young Yellow-Shafted Northern Flicker who was exploring my wheel well and doing a bit of yoga atop my tire. I was out kayaking and as I approached the shore I noticed a few flickers on the ground grabbing insects from the shoreline. As I approached, most of them flew up into …
This week I wanted to introduce you to the Eastern Kingbird. Kingbirds are regal-looking birds with a black cap and grey back. The easiest way to ID them in the field is to look for the white bar across the tip of their tail. They are members of the flycatcher family and are extremely agile in the air swooping after …
I usually take my son camping at the end of June into the early part of July. This year we went to Kakisa and Sambaa Deh which is in the Deh Cho region of the Northwest Territories. To get there, we have to cross the mighty Mackenzie River which is a wonderful spot for birding. A few years ago, …
I’ve been away camping for the past week (did you know the DehCho has a monsoon season?!). While I process the photos from my latest trip, I thought I would share some of my bird images from May. Getting good pictures of birds is hard. They don’t stay still for long and while they might come to have a …
Welcome back! Thanks for spending some time with me here, I appreciate your support! It’s been a cold spring. Thank goodness the birds are still coming up even though we have seen geese flying back from the north migration is still in full swing. Due to colder temps of the last little while, we are seeing a few more …
Hello there! It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to post and I appreciate your patience as we all adjust to the new “normal”. Things changed rapidly while I was on vacation and it took some time to readjust to this new life. I was in Vancouver for ten days and during that time of increasing social distancing …
I’m sure you aren’t tired of seeing all the gorgeous birds from Mexico yet! During my last few days in Puerto Vallarta, I used eBird to help me identify hotspots in the area I was staying. It really paid off!! I took a taxi just a few kilometres from our hotel to a deserted beach studded by small restaurants where …
My goodness, how things change. Apologies for the delay in getting this up, I’ve been scrambling to stay on top of things of late. Thanks for your patience and for your continued support! So to carry on from where we left off… Puerto Vallarta! There is a ton of birds in Mexico. It is rich with a variety of colourful …
I hope you enjoyed the last post about the beach birds I spotted in Mexico. This week I’ll introduce you to a few more. There are a lot of little birds in Mexico. From warblers to vireos to gnat-catchers there are so many small birds it is almost overwhelming. Every time I approached an area with grass, shrubs or other …
In the next couple of weeks I’ll be sharing some of my bird photos from Mexico as promised. I spent a week in the Nuevo Vallarta area of Mexico just north of Puerto Vallarta. Waking up to the sound of birds is such a mood booster after months of winter songbird silence. That and the sunny beach! I met a …