The many moods of Cabot Head!
Pictures: Stéphane Menu
Pictures: Stéphane Menu
On May 3, after a long afternoon walking the Bruce Trail in the Bruce Peninsula National Park, the international BPBO team drove back to the station buoyed by a full sunny day. Arriving near the gate, where the landscape opens …
On our third day of continuous rain (May 2), I believe that a post on the weather is in order. As you probably know, when it rains, there is no banding, as it would be too dangerous for the birds. …
As I am very fond of saying, always expect the unexpected with birds and bird migration! Birds, untethered to land or sea, trace invisible pathways through the air, connecting distant locales with their feathery wings. And sometimes they go astray …
As inexorably as the Earth spins around the Sun, another season has begun at Cabot Head: the 16th consecutive spring that BPBO will be monitoring the spring bird migration. This year, in marked contrast with 2016, there was no snow, …
Spring migration monitoring has begun at Cabot Head! Read more »
Three weeks have now passed since the nets were taken down and stored away at Cabot Head. Winter is in the process of slowly arriving. I have been busy with data analysis and report writing. As (more or less) promised, …
The fall migration monitoring of 2016 has now officially ended, with the last day being on October 31. It is always a bittersweet moment to furl the nets for the last time and store them away for the winter. It …
We tend to see “food chains” as a simple succession, from herbivores eating plants, to carnivores eating herbivores but in reality, nature rarely fits neatly into little boxes. The notion of chains is more accurately replaced by “food webs” and …
The leaves are now displaying a rich array of gold, red, orange, yellow, and even some lingering green here and there, bringing a pure brilliance to the forest that surrounds us. The days are markedly shorter, with a lazy sun …
The windfall continued throughout the week, with busy day following busy day, reaping a rich collection of kinglets, juncos and sparrows. From October 3 to 8, a total of 499 birds were banded, quite a good number in a 6-day …