by Wendy | Apr 18, 2017 | Blog, Crows & Jays, Jay, Gray #22, Perching
These are one of my favourite birds, easily trained to come for food, they are a delight to hand feed. They don’t migrate and stay in their territory year round. They manage to do this by storing enough food in bark and crevices to be able to feed all winter. The young have an early start, hatching mid winter, hardy as can be, true Canadians. Canadian Geographic conducted a survey and found out that this bird was voted most suitable to be our national bird and it was nominated.
by Wendy | Apr 15, 2017 | Blog, Pine Martin, Wildlife
by Wendy | Apr 10, 2017 | Blog, Pine Martin, Wildlife
by Wendy | Apr 2, 2017 | Blackbirds & Orioles, Blog, Grackle, Common #9, Perching
Such a common bird, I can’t get over how the light reflects such beautiful colours. These early birds were digging through the leaves looking for bugs or worms, they seemed to have some success even though the ground is fairly frozen still.
by Wendy | Apr 1, 2017 | Blog, Swan, Trumpeter #143, Swans, Wetlands
When you see a tagged bird, you can send the details in the to Birds Bander’s, and they will get back to you with information as to the age of the bird and where it was banded. these birds are migrating so it would be interesting to find out where they are from. https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/bblretrv/
Within 24 hours I received two certificates which can be viewed as you scroll through the batch of swan photos.
Trumpeters were at one time hunted to the point of reducing its numbers significantly, they have now bounced back to a population world wide of about 18,000.
click here to view the certificate pdf
Click here to view the certificate as a pdf
