Warblers in October- October 12, 2019 It has been a very pleasant beginning of October, with mild temperatures and sunny skies, with more and more leaves changing colour. The sudden drop in temperatures on the overcast morning of the 12th …
A week of Storms… In the nine days from September 8th to 16th, four banding days were lost to strong wind and/or rain. The wind came almost from all points of the compass, striking us from the North, South, East, …
June 9, 2018 The Spring season is drawing to a close. Less than two months ago, the world was largely black and white. Now, it is a study in green with singing birds busy establishing territories, building nests, and laying …
Spring banding started with a boom! The nets were up and we were ready on that first dawn of Spring migration monitoring! It was a clear, windless, cool morning on April 15th, when at 6:15am, we opened our nets …
Spring migration monitoring is about to begin! Once again, another spring season at the Cabot Head Research Station is soon to unfold. It will be the 15th year that the Bruce Peninsula Bird Observatory has been monitoring migrant birds …
by Noreen Steinacher BPBO members recent trip to Nicaragua – Seeing shade grown coffee and bird habitant preservation in action: In December 2015 a group of BPBO members and friends traveled to Nicaragua. Great trip, but I’ll get right to …
Cabot Head in Winter I have spent many days in spring and fall at Cabot Head, enjoying this beautiful place with bird migration in full force, the renewal of spring, the slowdown of fall, the many moods of Georgian Bay. …
Fall migration report complete with photos.
A time to pause and reflect Now that the daily migration monitoring has ended, it is time to compile, sum up, and analyze all the data collected over the past two and a half months. From mid-August to the …
Storm! (Oct. 30) The past week was marked by an intense wind- and rainstorm shutting down banding for two days! On Wednesday, an extremely strong East wind blew all day, driving rain horizontally and whipping whitecaps on giant Georgian Bay …
Stephane’s blog for October 30, 2015 -The last week… Read more »