I took a trip to Fort Providence at the end of June to go birding and do some fishing with my son. Fort Providence is approximately four hours from Yellowknife by car and is a Yellowknifer’s closest access to the Mackenzie River. During the spring and fall migration, Big River hosts thousands of birds from gulls, and ducks, to swans, …
This week I’m sharing some pictures of a Le Conte’s Sparrow, one of my favourites. The only time I have seen them in the NWT (up until last week) was in Fort Smith. This year I spotted them near the Yellowknife airport and had a chance to spend a bit of time with this one in particular. The …
This week I am sharing a few photos of a female Ruby-Crowned Kinglet that I spotted near the end of September. Ruby-Crowned Kinglets are very small birds, smaller than chickadees, that usually hang about in coniferous trees during breeding season since this is where they make their nests. They are fast and busy as they flit about in the high …
A couple of weeks ago I had an exciting moment as a birder; I apparently spotted and recorded the first sighting of an Audubon’s Warbler in the Northwest Territories! The Audubon’s warbler is a sub-species of the Yellow-rumped warbler, the other is the Myrtle warbler, however 40 years ago they were 2 separate species. According to a local bird expert, …