My friend and I went birdwatching on Thursday morning. It was a real treat as she felt comfortable enough to have me ride along in her car. We went to the 68th Street Wetlands and I was so unprepared for a summer outing. I got a touch of sunburn because I couldn’t find the sunscreen. I also forgot the camera battery on the charger, so I only have ( Read more... )

Here's what I saw--I had to wait on the gadwall ID. Unfortunately it wasn't my day to take photos--most of them weren't worth showing off, but they are keepers for IDs at least ( Read more... )

I went birdwatching last week and had a lot of fun. There's a ravine and two storm ponds near where I live that make a 3.4km loop. Trees and water? You'll find birds aplenty ( Read more... )

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You wouldn't know it's spring around here! We had two days of snow fall after a few days of nice weather. I had two good walks on the weekend and saw the usual suspects for my part of the world--crows, sparrows, Canada geese, starlings, magpies, house finches--but I did see my first robin of spring! That was quite exciting. I also spotted the ( Read more... )

I was going to make this post when I had gone through and edited my photos from a birdwatching trip my friend and I went on last fall. Sadly, most of my pictures were duds! The autumn sunset was in the wrong direction and created a lot of harsh glare. My lens didn't have enough reach, hence my purchase of the fancy Tamron lens, which I have yet to ( Read more... )

So some years ago, we put canes around the cup seed feeder to keep the pesky wood pigeons and feral pigeons from emptying it before the smaller birds could get a look in. This worked ( Read more... )

x-posted to birdloversToday was biz biz! Mom and I were supposed to go on a birdwatching bus trip to Invermere, British Columbia for the Wings Over the Rockies bird festival. It was cancelled due to lack of interest, which is a shame. It was a gorgeous day today and it would have been beautiful weather. I rented a 100-400mm lens and we went to the Inglewood ( Read more... )

Spring is in full swing where I live. It's like a switch was turned on the first day of spring in March - Canada geese and ducks were suddenly in the park downtown, fierce winds pushed winter out and birds and squirrels and every other little thing took flight or came out of their hole ( Read more... )