It was a beautiful warm sunny summer afternoon on Thursday June 18, 2026. I took a break to sit out on my back deck. I just happened to glimpse at a female rufous hummingbird sitting in the cedar tree beside the deck. She has visited my feeder as few days before in a nasty rainstorm. […]
May has been a very busy month, so I am posting the best or most interesting bird photos for the month in one go. I was on my back, having an afternoon cup of tea, when this male yellow-rumpled warbler flew out of the cedar tree and onto the power line. On May 26, shooting […]
The New York Times (paywalled) reported on Tuesday, December 16, the results of a study of dark eyed juncos around the campus of the University of California at Los Angeles.Over the past few years, the juncos (part of the sparrow family) have adapted to living in LA and are now apparently enjoying human food. That […]
This morning’s atmospheric river hitting the northwest from Oregon to British Columbia brought a blizzard to Kitimat. That didn’t deter all the birds that came to my tower feeder.
For the November bird count, Sunday, November 16, 2025, the weather was not cooperating. Cool, wet with a blowing wind and mixture of rain and sleet. Visibility was poor but in Haisla, at the Kitamaat Village waterfront, a small murder of crows stopped nearby. Veteran birders in British Columbia would call the smaller bird a […]
Three file photos of blue jays in my old backyard in the Pocket in Toronto, two in tree spring 2008, one on the fence May 2010, in honour of the baseball Blue Jays in the World Series.