Sightings
Don McLeod’s Nature blog updated
My website has been updated. Lots of new pictures of Eastern Cottontail, House Finches, juvenile Gray Squirrels and Mute Swans. Click here Don McLeod
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eBird: Rare Cerulean Warbler at Deer Bay Reach S, east of Buckhorn
Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulea) (1) – Reported Jun 04, 2014 05:57 by Travis Cameron – Deer Bay Reach S, Peterborough, Ontario – Map: – Checklist: – Comments: “Male heard and seen from road at driveway #111 and 108”
CLIMATE CHANGE COLUMNS
Is there change in the air? Climate change doesn’t appear to be on radar during this provincial election – especially for PCs
Regular readers of this column probably know that I consider climate change to be the biggest threat facing the natural world and civilization as we know it. Despite repeated warnings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that Earth is barreling straight into climate disaster – just a month Read more…
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Long Point in Prince Edward County is a great spring migration birding destination
Brian and I spent 6 days at Long Point in Prince Edward County in May and were rewarded with lots of spring migrants even though we were a little early. Just thought I would share with you pics of the birds that I was able to get this spring for Read more…
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A record day for birds at our Bailieboro farm
On May 19, we had a record day of birds at our farm in Bailieboro. Thirty different birds put in an appearance including at least six Baltimore Orioles, an Indigo Bunting, a Pine Siskin (too quick for pics), a Pileated Woodpecker, a Brown Thrasher’s nest with an egg, and a Read more…
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The beautiful Red-bellied Snake
I was working in a friend’s garden at his farm on Settlers Line near Keene this afternoon, June 4. I moved a plastic bag of manure I’d laid over another bag last fall and found a snake I’d never seen before, under the top bag. I’ve looked it up and Read more…
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eBird: Last migrants passing through – Dunlins and flycatchers
Dunlin (Calidris alpina) (6) – Reported May 28, 2014 10:40 by Peterborough County Birds Database – Peterborough–3.8 km SSE on Bensfort Rd, Peterborough, Ontario – Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=44.24314,-78.29213&ll=44.24314,-78.29213 – Checklist: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18635556 – Comments: “in shallow stormwater pool on E side Bensfort Rd” Olive-sided Flycatcher (Contopus cooperi) (1) – Reported May 31, Read more…
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Little Wood Satyr at Pigeon Lake
I had a Little Wood Satyr in our yard today, June 1. We leave a lot of areas wild and the grasses attract these types of butterflies. More host plants = more butterflies. Blair Hamilton, Pigeon Lake