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Mar 1, 2008 12:41 pm
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Jackie - If you look in my photo folder you will see another white-headed finch. Head pattern is definitely different so there are at least two around....
Birds, 01Mar08 Elbow River Survey, Stanley Pk.-Glenmore Res. Temp. -7 to 0C. Sleet, Snow, Sun. 14 Participants. March came in like a Lion. Canada Goose-85 Wood...
Hello: On Saturday, March 1, 2008, at around 1:30 PM, I saw an immature-plumaged Northern Goshawk with a Richardson's Ground Squirrel in it's talons at the ...
South of Caburn Park there is a pedistrian bridge spanning the Bow River. This is a very good location for water fowl and a great place to get good views of...
This Saturday I drove around the Beaverhills Lake area. Just south of HWY 16 E on RR 174, I encountered the first of many small (2-16) groups of Horned Larks....
Had a flock of perhaps 600 Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches ranging between the Baymag Plant and Gap Lake, west of Exshaw on the morning of March 2. There was at...
At 10am today I saw a single California gull at the north end of the Sanctuary on the ice on the Bow River. As I was leaving it took off, circled and headed...
We spent the weekend in Jasper for a bar mitzvah. I had a few hours here and there to trip along trials. List as follows, excluding crows, ravens and one or...
Willi It looks to me like you have a photo of a Song Sparrow there.The patterning on the head (brown broken by a grey line on top, prominent brown eyeline) and...
I believe clarks nutcracker, not gray jay. Murray Mackay ... From: braun.willi <Willi.Braun@...> To: Albertabird@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, March 3,...
Early this morning (March 3) at the Banff train station, I watched flock after flock of Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch flying west along the railroad. It was...
This morning, my wife and I heard the cheeping of nestlings coming from the shrubbery in a neighbour's front yard. Peering in to it, we saw a Blue Jay sitting...
Andrew Slater
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Mar 4, 2008 12:36 am
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Hello all, just thought I'd introduce myself to the group as I just joined up today. My name is John Marriott and I'm a professional nature photographer by...
The Mt. Lorette raptor count has started in the Kananaskis west of Calgary. The main count is now at Piitaistakis - South Livingston, by Peter Sherrington, and...
Into the Spring birding season, and Willow Ptarmigan are still being observed in Ft MacMurray. Christine Sparling observed some ptarmigan right on the side of...
This Web site on radar technology has just been made public: http://www.fort.usgs.gov/radar/ . It may be of interest to you... Forwarded from CMMN List Ted...
Hi again group. Yesterday I spotted a pair of Hawk-Owl in the same location, 3-4 km south of Darwell on RR 50 (Sec Hwy 765) and again today I spotted one (1)...
Hello: I am asking the group if anyone remembers (and/or has a record of) an early 1980's sighting of a Black-billed Cuckoo in the Calgary area. I was taking a...
This morning I was watching the two pygmy owls NE of the bridge between bebo grove and Shannon Terrace (one on each side of the regional pathway) when I heard...
There is still at least one Pygmy Owl in the Shannon Terrace area of Fish Creek Park. It started calling just after nine this morning from the south side of...
Andrew Slater
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Mar 5, 2008 9:19 pm
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Saw the Townsend's solitaire on the Belgravia trail section of the river valley today. Also the saw-whet owl seems to be roosting on the same tree on which I...
Re Dwight Knapik's request for Cuckoo records, the now out of print "Birdfinding Guide to the Calgary Region" list several records for this species for the...
Hello Malcolm, Dwight; I also have a record of Black-billed Cuckoo from July 15/82 from Irricana, specifically Twp. Rd. 270 approx. 1 mile west of Rg. Rd. 250...
Willi; Good pictures. I have a comment though, it appears the colour balance is off on some of the pictures. They seem to show too much red. I hope it is not...
Reid, I'm looking at them on my Apple MacBook and they seem okay. I just got a the Nikon D300 and am still figuring out its IQ. I have the saturation set for...
