Stéphane’s Blog for April 19, 2011
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A Few Numbers This fall, a total of 143 species were observed during the migration monitoring period. A new species for the Cabot Head area was observed, a Boreal Chickadee, on October 29. Other noteworthy sightings include: an adult Trumpeter …
Last Day of Monitoring October 31st is not just for trick or treat! It is also the last day of bird migration monitoring at Cabot Head Research Station. It was a beautiful day with impressive snow showers! Sometimes, the view was completely obscured …
New Arrivals Today, the second last day of migration monitoring, we had 2 male Buffleheads and one male Common Goldeneye on the basin, first sightings for this fall at Cabot Head. Nets were open for only the first 3 hours of the …
Deserted Woods Or so it seemed for half of the morning today! For 3 hours, the nets didn’t catch any single bird; the one-hour census yielded only 8 species and very few individuals of each. A notable exception was the first flock of …
And the Rain Finally Came We did get quite a bit of rain at Cabot Head, even though we managed to open nets most of the time. But the catch has been meager these days: it seems that most birds have move …
The Rain That Will Not Come As a cold rain is falling hard on the Bruce Peninsula on this gray afternoon, it is a little ironic, don’t you think, to talk of the rain that will not come. It is, however, true …
The First Snow In a curious conflagration of South and North, we got thunderstorms yesterday evening after a day of intensely strong and warm south winds, while at the same time, 2 Snow Buntings (the first of the fall detected here) were seen …