The Black-crowned Night-herons are back at the slough on the west side of Deerfoot Trail, just south of the Airport Trail interchange in Calgary. Cheers, Bill...
Help Horned Owls are not too common on Vancouver Island so we consider our neighbours were very fortunate to have a pair fledge two young. However when they...
Hi Sorry to use these groups for something other than birds but I took a picture of a beetle. After searching through hundreds of pictures in the government...
I took an early-morning drive along Sibbald Creek Trail (Hwy 68) from Hwy 40 to Hwy 1 west of Calgary today. A BREWER'S SPARROW was singing in the willows...
Eric Tull has alerted me to the possibility of Field Sparrow rather than Brewer's Sparrow. I had thought of Field Sparrow while looking at the bird (this...
- RBA * Alberta (Canada) * Calgary, AB * Jul 4, 2005 * ABCA0507.04 - Birds mentioned Caspian Tern Bonaparte's Gull Burrowing Owl Great Grey Owl Olive-sided...
Jean Moore
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Jul 4, 2005 11:57 pm
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I will lead my walk at Mallard Point in place of Voiture Flatsto-morrow at 630 pm thanks maryhuston@... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Does any body have any info on the egrets at Big Lake mentioned on the Wild Bird Hotline. Which end of the lake should I start looking at? Cheers, Doug...
It's a Brewer's Sparrow. Mike Mulligan and I took an early drive to the marsh at Jumpingpound Demonstration Forest today and had good looks through scopes. The...
Bill Wilson mentions the Timberline (Brewer's) song. The bird was singing an alternate song. Fortunately this is accurately described in A Guide to the ...
I arrived at the Brewer's Sparrow site about 06:30 this morning and had no luck but did have a perched Fox Sparrow there. Proceeded west to the locale for...
Milton Spitzer
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Jul 5, 2005 5:12 pm
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Last Thursday about 6pm Bill Wilson and I set out for Cold Lake. We were lucky to find a campsite in Cold Lake Provincial Park on the long weekend, especially...
The directions that I gave to the MacGillivray's Warbler along Sibbald Trail should have said that the parking area was just off Hwy 68, not Hwy 40. I hope...
Last August, I encountered a Spizella type sparrow on Plateau Mtn. (SW of Longview) that I was pretty sure was a timberline (Brewer's) sparrow. The bird never...
I took an early morning drive to Water Valley, NW of Calgary, today, partly to try to find "Western" Flycatcher and partly to see what condition the road to...
The Washington Post has just published an excellent article on the search for Ivory-billed wood pecker. If any of you would like to read it let me know off...
Hi all , just got back from a trip to Kelowna, my highlight was a Dickcissel which is in Sorrento, B.C.. I followed the directions posted on the Okanagan...
Hi everyone, I never got to see the thing, because I had to head off to work, but a very and vocal Tennessee Warbler was singing in the poplars on the west ...
There were three male Bobolinks but only one female on the morning of July 7 at the site mentioned in last week's alert. This species is usually found only...
Andrew Slater
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Jul 8, 2005 3:15 pm
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This am Keith A. and I scouted the Frank L. and Brant colony area. Returned via Blackie (sec.hwy.799). At the intersection with 402 Av. (2 m. south of...
PLEASE NOTE The meeting time for the scheduled Calgary Field Naturalists Society "Birding Foothills & Mountains" field trip has been changed to 7am. Sat Jul...
I visited the shallow marsh (10.5 km north on Horse Creek Road from Hwy 1A) looking for Nelson's Sharp-Tailed Sparrows and Upland Sandpiper that Bill Wilson...
Hi All, Always enjoy reading about the sightings in Alberta and comparing what's happening in your area to those in the Lower Mainland of B.C., or B.C. in...
Was wondering about that myself, Randy. Especially full grown ones. Mike Mulligan Calgary ... From: Randy Findlay To: Albertabird@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
