This morning when I stepped out the front door, there was a Pileated Woodpecker pecking away at railway ties at side of house. Several weeks ago, I had a White-tailed Deer in the backyard. It was dining on the fresh foliage of a Norway Maple. I frequently see Red Foxes Read more…
We had a rare visitor this evening – an Eastern Bluebird. He seems to be hanging around too…I’ve never seen him before. Observer: Kim Reid, Drummond Line, east of Peterborough and north of Highway 7
A leucistic female cardinal has been around our house all spring. I finally got a photo of her at the feeder today. (N.B. Leucism is a general term for the patches of white on a bird’s body resulting from defects in pigment cell differentiation. This often results in patches of Read more…
This afternoon I walked the Trans-Canada Trail from the foot path that goes up the steep hill to the bottom of Wallis Drive, past the blue bridge (near the pumping station entrance point on Parkhill Road at Ravenwood) to about 100 metres west of the orange bridge at Lily Lake. Read more…