Eastern Screech-Owl (Northern) (Megascops asio [asio Group]) (1) – Reported Sep 25, 2016 20:16 by Luke Berg – Peterborough–Mervin Line, Peterborough, Ontario – Map: – Checklist: – Comments: “Singing on the south side of the road about 200m west of the east end of the road. ” Great Horned Owl Read more
The Monarch I’ve been monitoring emerged from its chrysalis on September 18. It is the only one I have been able to find. The other caterpillars I was watching disappeared. My parents have sightings of at least a couple other Monarchs. Sean McMullen Warsaw Note: A Monarch visited our garden Read more
Here are a couple of photos from this week. The Common Loon chick eating something was photographed on September 20 on the River Road, south of Lakefield. The Merlin picture was taken September 16 at our club shoot in Millennium Park. Carl Welbourne
The marsh at the south end of TV Road had three Great Egrets last evening ( 21 Sept 16) Carl Welbourn Kawartha Camera Club
I have spent some evenings this summer with some of my moth friends of the Noctuid group. Underwings, (genus – Catocala), are a fascinating bunch when one puts out bait repeatedly, night after night, to attract them. Some, like most nocturnal moths, will come to lights at night, but nothing Read more
A love of nature begins in childhood; every boy and girl is a budding naturalist. This should come as no surprise. Up until the agricultural revolution and, later, the emigration into villages and cities, humans grew up and lived in intimate contact with natural environments. Survival depended on detailed knowledge Read more
Six species of ducks at Lakefield Sewage Lagoons right now: 38 Wood Ducks, 4 Mallards, 2 Northern Shovelers, 1 Greater Scaup, 7 Lesser Scaups, and 9 Hooded Mergansers. – Reported Sep 18, 2016 08:17 by Daniel Williams – Lakefield–Sewage Lagoons, Peterborough, Ontario – Map: – Checklist: – Comments: “S cell, Read more
Looking back at the summer of 2016, two words come immediately come to mind: drought and heat. August was a whopping 3.7 C warmer than the 1971-2000 average, while as of this week, September is about 3 C above normal temperatures. As for precipitation, July only saw one-third of normal Read more
Thought I would send you these photos of a baby Snapping Turtle. I removed 10 from my river road on Friday, Sept 9th. My friend on Nogies Creek had 6 baby Blanding’s hatch on Labour Day after they had covered up the nest to protect it from predators. Marie Windover, Read more
Peterborough ON – September 7 2016. Latest evaluation performed by the provincial Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) of Loggerhead Marsh, located in the city’s west end, has classified Loggerhead Marsh as a provincially significant wetland. Based on available information on the marsh and its wildlife and using the Read more
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) (1) – Reported Sep 08, 2016 12:19 by Chris Risley – PTBO – Edgewater road and Railway, Peterborough, Ontario – Map: – Checklist: – Media: 1 Photo – Comments: “perched in tree on shore of Little Lake near RR tracks; adult”
After paddling up the mouth of Eel’s Creek with a friend on Labour Day and seeing no less than ten Map Turtles, (including six on the same log), I was reminded of another I saw back in June not far from there. The latter was well on her way up Read more
On the morning of the 29th of August, I saw a Great Egret at a farmer’s pond on Bensfort Road, a little north of the Bensfort Landfill north of County Road #2. Brenda Dyson
I observed twice this week a pair of Sandhill Cranes flying to and from the Omemee pond (enlargement in Pigeon River on south edge of Omemee). One time they were also calling from the pond. Gavin Hunter, Omemee
This past weekend, I observed the hatch of 8-10 Snapping Turtles on Rathbun Bay, Jack Lake. There is a very small sand beach between my neighbours cottages and the young turtles (1-1.5 inches in size) were all in the shallow water adjacent to the beach. No nesting activity had been Read more
Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) (1) – Reported Sep 02, 2016 09:44 by Donald Sutherland – Lakefield–Sewage Lagoons, Peterborough, Ontario – Map: – Checklist: – Media: 1 Photo – Comments: “juvenile, central aeration booms of S cell, actively feeding”