Hey everyone, Now I know these guys are pretty common down in Calgary, but up here in the Edmonton area House Finches are still relatively few and far between....
Hi, Wednesday, March 30 , after supper, Thérèse and I went to Inglewood for the Gulls. Among the usual ones, we checked very carefully those immature birds...
Two Peregrine Falcons are flying around the University of Calgary Library Tower and occasionally zipping past the ledge of Craigie Hall where they have nested...
Does anyone know if FAN publishes a checklist of Alberta birds? Because we travel extensively throughout Alberta each year, I would like to keep a 2005 record...
Jean Moore
jmmoore@...
Apr 2, 2005 12:45 am
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Jean, FAN has it up: http://www.pma.edmonton.ab.ca/natural/birds/birdlist/taxon.htm Barb Beck Edmonton...
Hi, I received it on Albertabird yesterday. All the format is set up by the Birdwest listserv which is where we started posting a long time ago. Don't really...
Hi All , This morning a trip to Brown Lowery Park with Halle Flygare turned up one Northern Pygmy Owl and two Three toed Woodpeckers . Gray Jays were...
Hi, There is an occupied Great Horned Owl nest on eastbound Marquis De Lorne just west of the entrance to Spruce Meadows. I noticed at the Yahoo site that...
29 Mar: First Red-Tailed Hawk was reported along Hwy 55E, near jct RR421. 1 Apr: First Northern Harrier was reported in this same general area. 2 Apr: Beaver...
Hi All! This morning at 8:30 I headed over to Lacombe Park in St. Albert. It was my hope to add American Tree Sparrow and/or American Robin to my 2005 list. I...
A trip to Brooks today produced the following: Kitsim Project main slough (first road west of HWY 36, north of SR 539): Red-breasted Merganser, 2 males + 1...
Thanks for this report Malcolm. I have been thinking about the Brooks area as we plan the count coming up in May. Could you give us a general idea of water...
Hi Bob: Bassano Reservoir hasn't begun filling yet so nothing in the Brooks area has started filling either. Most of the ponds and sloughs have water. The...
hi there everyone, just added some more pics of the last couple of days ,they are under empress album, we have a great horned owl nesting in our farm yard just...
3 Apr 05 Both Dark Eyed Junco's and American Tree Sparrows have arrived in Cold Lake as of this date. Juncos were observed both at the Reddecliffs (x2) south...
Hi everyone, I had the ineffable luxury of unrestricted access to the family car on Sat. and decided to make the most of it by visiting the feeders at 8 ...
Sandy Ayer
SAyer@...
Apr 4, 2005 3:18 pm
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Hello all, A few hours outside Friday afternoon revealed an early white-throated sparrow and a pair of chickadees eagerly excavating a cavity. Yesterday I took...
Hi All! At 9:00 AM Sunday Apr. 3, a group of 30 participants set out on an ENC birding trip. Our intention was to see what we could find along the North...
My first new bird of April was a big surprise. Last Saturday while I was out in my yard a Turkey Vulture circled around for a couple of minutes quite close to...
Jody Allair and myself checked out Eagle and Namaka Lakes, Carseland P.P and Langdon Reservoir this morning. Eagle and Namaka are mostly frozen but there was...
For starters, I am a new arrival, having listed Hoary Redpolls on my first quarter Birding Competition list from Redwood Meadows. Also reported a Great Horned...
hi there everyone, just a quick note to let you know that we have hundreds and hundreds of sand hill cranes flying over today, very large flocks high above ...
Here is Peter Sherrington's update for the month of March, for the Rocky Mountain raptor migration through the Mt. Lorette area. Cheers, Bill Wilson Calgary ...
While i was walking home from school one day i noticed very loud squawking sounds that sounded like a hurt Gull. Upon closer look i found out that the West...
Hi Ben An interesting idea that unfortunately usually does not work. One of the Malls in Calgary ( Westhills ) tried this. We meet weekly near Zellers during...
Spent lunch hour at Hermitage Park (NE Edmonton) today. I saw a Townsend's Solitaire, my first Red-winged Blackbird of the year, a Killdeer, a Robin, Tree...
Checking out conditions south of Beaverhill Lake, as well as trying to persuade RCMP I was up to no good, I was surprised to see a lot of Rough-legged Hawks...
