This morning was very busy in my yard with my regular leucistic robin, 3 blue jays, a pair of cardinals, doves, chickadees, a white breasted nuthatch and goldfinches all feeding at the same time. I thought all of them had left when the Cooper’s hawk flew into the top of Read more…
Thirty keen birders spent today, January 1st, in the Peterborough and Petroglyphs areas with by far the most open water ever seen on this trip. This resulted in few birds on the Otonabee River but several surprises elsewhere, including a male Ring-necked Duck on Stony Lake and 3 Northern Shovelers Read more…
On Dec 31 we had a Red Squirrel and an albino Red Squirrel . Esther Ross, North shore of Rice Lake, near Bailieboro
Northern Shrike (Lanius excubitor) (1) – Reported Dec 30, 2015 08:30 by Matthew Tobey – Area A Petroglyphs CBC, Peterborough, Ontario – Map: – Checklist: – Comments: “in woods off McCoy Bay Road” Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) (3) – Reported Dec 30, 2015 07:30 by Martyn Obbard – Petroglyphs CBC–Area Read more…
On December 30 at 10:30 a.m., I got a good look at a Cougar behind my house at 1146, Peacock Road, off the 7th Line south of Lakefield. The animal was walking along the edge of a pond about 150 feet away. It looked to be about six feet long Read more…
I spotted this Bald Eagle flying over the south end of Chemong Lake this morning. Just a while ago, he reappeared with a fresh kill and landed on the shell ice to eat it. He was a bit far up from our shoreline so the pictures aren’t the best…..but a Read more…
Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) (20) – Reported Dec 30, 2015 04:55 by Luke Berg – Peterborough – Petroglyphs CBC (Area D), Peterborough, Ontario – Map: – Checklist: – Comments: “All in Petroglyphs. Flocks of 13 and 7.” Note: Luke also saw 2 Winter Wren, 18 Common Redpoll, 55 Pine Siskin, Read more…
On Wednesday Dec. 30 at 4:30 pm at the Gannon Narrows Causeway (Lakehurst Road), which crosses Buckhorn Lake, there were 200-300 Common Mergansers at the southeast side having a feeding frenzy. Not sure if they will be there Thursday morning. Jane Philpott Note: Luke Berg had 482 Common Mergansers on Read more…
At about 3pm on Sunday, December 27, I saw 2,000 – 3,000 Canada Geese flying west & then north over County Road 28 near Rice Lake. At one point, there were dozens of flocks of 10 -100 geese almost from the eastern to western horizon. A Red-bellied Woodpecker visited our Read more…
At the pussy willow patch on Xmas eve, I spotted four or five emerging pussy willows way high up in the bushes and saw a dead American Toad on Route 100 in N. Russell. It was a very large one. Lots of blooming dandelions in North Russell (in addition to Read more…
Although winter’s official start was three days ago, you certainly wouldn’t know it. Peterborough has experienced unprecedented warmth this month with temperatures averaging an amazing 9 C above normal. (Note: December ended up being 7.8 C above normal – the warmest ever recorded for Peterborough and the Kawarthas.) Not surprisingly, Read more…
From the ‘Have we screwed this planet up or what!’ department On Christmas Eve day at about 11:00am Margo and I watched a frog cross the highway in front of us on County Road 28 near Fraserville. It appeared to have dodged a stream of vehicles or is squished into Read more…
I was awakened at 4:00 this morning by the sound of Spring Peepers calling. I continued to hear calling from several directions up until about 8:00, when the wind started blowing strongly. Temperature 17 C. Valerie Kirkwood Acton’s Corners (near Kemptville, ON)
This evening (Dec. 23, 2015) at approx. 20:00 I heard three separate packs of Coyotes howling. It was an exceptionally mild night (+7 C) with a light wind from the east, and a waxing moon just barely visible in between light showers.The howling started in the SE, back behind Stovehaven Read more…
A Snowy Owl was observed for over 30 minutes on Dec 15th in the corn field behind Jim Glenn’s main depot in Keene. Michael Gillespie
I observed several Trumpeter Swans on December 20th. They were on the north shore of Rice Lake across from Lower Foley Island. Willard Ramsey
Caught up in the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, many of us forget that a profound celestial event takes place this month. Monday, December 21, marks the occasion of the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year and the first official day of winter. From our perspective, Read more…
Cackling Goose (Richardson’s) (Branta hutchinsii) (4) – Reported Dec 12, 2015 12:00 by Iain Rayner – Peterborough–Little Lake, Peterborough, Ontario – Map: – Checklist: – Comments: “Swimming together in large flock of CAGO near Crescent St. Smaller then CAGO(of undetermined subspecies), more of a silvery sheen to back, round/squareish head, Read more…
Source: Craig Welch, National Geographic, PUBLISHED Sat Dec 12 15:30:00 EST 2015 The world came together. More than 20 years after world leaders first tried hammering out an accord to tackle climate change, representatives of 195 nations on Saturday adopted a landmark agreement that seeks to scale back greenhouse gases Read more…
Source: By Haydn Watters, CBC News Posted: Dec 12, 2015 3:01 PM ET After lengthy overnight negotiations and two weeks of touch-and-go discussions, delegates at the UN climate talks in Paris have adopted a climate-change pact. The final text of the Paris Agreement — considered to be the world’s first universal climate agreement — is 31 pages long. While the plenary session Read more…
When it comes to climate change, the main take-away is that it is real. That being said, efforts by climate change deniers (at least one of whom regularly submits letters to this paper) to convince people that the science on human-caused climate change is far from settled have been quite Read more…
This afternoon at 4:15 pm I saw 6 Canvasback (3 male, 3 female) on the Otonabee, just north of Lock 23 along River Rd (in the small bay at the bend in the road) between Trent and Lakefield. The males were in their breeding plumage and quite striking. Carrie Sadowski
Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) (1) – Reported Dec 03, 2015 13:42 by Martyn Obbard – Buckhorn Rd. ca. 500 m south of Buckhorn, Peterborough, Ontario – Map: – Checklist: – Comments: “large raptor soaring overhead; at first thought TUVU; larger than TUVU; long broad wings, slow wing beat, extensive “fingering” Read more…
> 4 December 2015 – Canada: Ontario: Grenville County: Oxford-on-Rideau: Oxford Mills Dam, Kemptville Creek. (100m ard dam), 31B/13, 44.96486N 75.67863W TIME: 2000-2120. AIR TEMP: 5°C, overcast, calm. HABITAT: murky brownwater creek at limestone flats below old milldam, water 3°C. OBSERVER: Frederick W. Schueler, Aleta Karstad Schueler, Catherine Millar, Read more…
You cannot go far in Boquete without noticing the bird activity. Rufous-collared Sparrows, House Wrens and Clay-coloured Robins pour out their songs from gardens and rooftops; pairs of Blue-gray Tanagers fly in unison from tree to tree; Rufous-tailed Hummingbirds buzz about at spectacular Hibiscus and Bougainvillea bushes; Blue-crowned Motmots glean Read more…
On November 21, 2015, at 7:15 am at 11 Bank Street South in Millbrook, an all-white woodpecker was enjoying the hanging peanuts. The bird was totally grey/white and NOT albino as had black eyes. It was the same size as a Hairy Woodpecker and its flight was swooping like a Read more…
Gray Jay (Northern) (Perisoreus canadensis) (2) – Reported Nov 28, 2015 08:45 by Wendy Hogan – Rockcroft, Peterborough, Ontario – Map: – Checklist: – Comments: “Two birds swooping down onto highway to pick at a red squirrel.”
I believe these trail cam pics (one cropped) from Nov 23, 2015 at 9:39 am show a Red-bellied Woodpecker (near the bottom). This is the only shot the camera caught of it. I have never seen a bird here before with an all-red top of the head. He returned on Read more…
On November 11, 2015 at 1:30 pm, I spotted a Short-tailed Weasel (ermine or stoat) on the Trans-Canada trail to the east of Ackison Road. It had a pure white belly and legs with slightly darker shade on back and black end to tail (see attached picture). I was hanging around Read more…
Saturday (Nov. 28) afternoon at about 4:15 pm, we heard and saw a flock of ~ 75 Sandhill Cranes flying high just south of (and towards) Lakefield. They were very noisy and making their distinctive call! Carrie Sadowski