The Calgary Field Naturalist's Society owling trip on the evening of Friday March 31 treated participants to hearing 5 species of owl along the Sibbald Creek...
Hi Dwight and all, The Northern Mockingbird was in the crabapple tree in Nanton around 6:30 this morning, and a bit later flew up to the chimney. I didn't see...
Cleve and Merril Wershler and myself got 3 Greater Yellowlegs at Frank Lake (SW corner of Basin 2) on Thursday (Mar 30).This is easily the earliest record that...
Hello Marian, My project is authorized by both the Canadian Wildlife Service and Alberta Environment (Fish & Wildlife). I am studying the identifiable prey...
April 2, 2006 On Mar 31 and April 1, we meandered the back roads of s. Alberta from Frank Lake to Nanton, west to Hwy 22, then slightly east and south again on...
Hello All, I've taken the liberty of posting a few recent images of Edmonton's 'resident' adult male Northern Cardinal in the Photos section and in a separate...
Headed out again around Buck Lake for the past two days. Heard another 2 Saw-whets, one near the Buck Lake School and the second a few km south of Highway 13...
Hi Dave and all, Very nice captures of the Cardinal. I had a bit of trouble trying to access your images though, as it appears there was a break in the URL....
Took a spin SE of Edmonton this afternoon for a quick tour of the Bittern Lake area. A stiff SE breeze was blowing steadily most of the afternoon and this...
Hi guys, as per the Albertabird posting this week, We (Stan & Carol Gosche, Dave Nadeau, Terry Thormin) decided to pursue the Nothern Cardinal that was heard...
Stan I remember when we used to band up to 50 Evening grosbeaks at a time at our home south of Sherwood Park in the early 1970s. Yes, I'd appreciate a good...
Hi everyone, We also managed to find the Northern Mockingbird early Sunday afternoon in Nanton. It was about 1/2 a block west of the usual intersection, in a...
I was one of those fortunate enough to join Yousif Attia on the Owl prowl trip along Highway #68 on Friday night. As Yousif posted earlier on this site, we...
A couple of recent postings have reported success finding the Nanton mockingbird but not the collard-doves. I was down in Nanton on Sunday morning between 9...
Hi everyone, Fincastle Lake had more new arrivals today, with 3 Horned Grebes, 38 Red-breasted Mergansers displaying, with 5 Great Blue Herons at the nests, ...
This afterfnoon (Apr 3) Tanya Barkauskas and I saw one male Red-breasted Merganser on the Bow River at Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. Also present were five...
hi everyone, yes i know its been a while since I've last posted. today i went for a drive around Empress, and to the Empress creek and seen the folowing ...
Today, April 3, 2006 our resident junco is back singing away. Also the local Merlins are flyng around calling. Rick Palindat Edmonton [Non-text portions of...
... I had a terrific time in Empress last year and it sure is a birding hotspot!! Grasshopper Sparrow, Y breasted Chat stand out plus plenty of Long billed...
This morning at 1015h there was a large, adult Glaucous Gull just downstream from the S zoo parking lot. This bird is much larger than the near adult (3rd...
I am somwhat confused on the Glaucous gull report. I understood that a third year and full adult would be the relatively the same size. The only differences...
Some male gulls are very much larger than females of the same species. If you look at many species of birds you will often note what is referred to as sexual...
Dear Alberta birders, I sort-of share Mike's confusion, but would first like to congratulate Calgary birders about these wonderful gull observations (including...
An excellent reference for the gulls is Gulls of North America, Europe , and Asia by K Olsen and H Larsson. Under Glaucous Gull they note " the largest males...
Hi all, A visit to Big Lake yesterday evening produced several groups of pintails booting around, along with several mallards and a noticeable increase in the...
