If the Earth was not tilted relative to the Sun, there would be no seasons, no variations, no changes throughout the year. But it is tilted and everything is different. In a few days, on September 22, it will be …
Equality on Earth: Fall equinox is on September 22! Read more »
The frenetic banding pace of the first 10 days of the season has slowed down, albeit with still good numbers in our nets from time to time. It is becoming more and more clear that we have a Red-breasted Nuthatch …
What’s in a name? Or how the misnamed Connecticut Warbler does not breed there… Read more »
It has been a very busy first 10 days of the fall monitoring with high banding totals almost every day. Usually banding is relatively relaxed in mid-August when a big day would be about 40 birds captured. This summer though, …
So. Many. Birds! A very busy start of monitoring. Read more »
As per tradition, fall starts on August 15 at Cabot Head when a new season of monitoring begins. For the next 78 days, we will rise before dawn to open the mist nets, with our eyes and ears open to …
It was a long and stormy week! There was very active weather all throughout last week reducing or precluding banding on all but two days. It was mostly strong wind that hindered the banding operations, as we had no rain …
It is said that in North America there are migratory birds on the move in any month of the year with an ever so faint lull in June and December. Arctic breeding shorebirds for example, may start their southward migration …
On May 20 in mid-morning, I was finishing extracting a bird from the first net when my eyes were attracted to a Buteo-like raptor soaring close by (Buteo comprises Red-tailed and Rough-legged Hawks, for example). The bird seemed different, its shape unusual …
There was some incredibly hot weather last week, brought in with strong south wind blowing furnace air into southern Ontario. It was summer weather in early May bringing a sudden explosive leaf-out at Cabot Head, greening the trees in a …
Migratory birds are on the move and they are coming from far-flung places. Look at a map of the Western Hemisphere and wherever you look south of the Canada/US border, you are looking at a place that could harbour birds …
A web of connections or the importance of a messy garden. Read more »
The past week was very busy both with banding and observation. There were a lot of kinglets, with numbers seemingly piling up during the first half of the week, a time of cold and North wind. Many got banded during …