Here is a photo I took this morning of a beautiful Pileated Woodpecker on a large old cedar tree in my backyard. It was just browsing around the trunk, yanking off bark and insect hunting. It wasn’t excavating holes in the tree. I’ve been told by my neighbour that when Read more…
I just saw a Northern Shrike take down a House Sparrow between the house and the barn. The shrike killed it slowly with its beak by grabbing the sparrow by the neck. Then it picked up the sparrow in its claws and flew east (I assume towards our gulley which Read more…
A strange creature that I had never spotted before died in my barnyard this week . I know it is a Virginia Opossum opossum but did not know they lived in the area. Marie Adamcryck, Rice Lake (Note: The Virginia Opossum has been expanding its range northward into the Kawarthas Read more…