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May sightings of note

May 2 was a beautiful morning for a bird walk. Warm south winds the night before had brought in migrants. Walked the trails at Camp Kawartha with Jacob Rodenburg and Tim Dyson – respecting two metre distancing of course. In a couple of hours we found 38 species, including some Read more…

By Drew Monkman, 3 yearsMay 31, 2020 ago
CLIMATE CHANGE COLUMNS

Three billion birds have disappeared from North America

Grassland birds and aerial insectivores among the hardest hit When I was a teenager in the 1960s, the Peterborough Field Naturalists made an annual June visit to Harry William’s farm near Millbrook. This was not your average nature outing. You were expected to arrive no later than 4:00 am. Why, Read more…

By Drew Monkman, 3 yearsOctober 11, 2019 ago
CLIMATE CHANGE COLUMNS

A precarious future for Canada’s wildlife

Myriad threats and declines evident in the Kawarthas, too Living in a country as big and relatively unpopulated as Canada, it might come as a surprise that much of our wildlife is in serious decline. This was made abundantly clear last week when World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF) released its Read more…

By Drew Monkman, 6 yearsSeptember 22, 2017 ago
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Merlins and two clutches of orioles on Otonabee R. property

I live on the Otonabee River between locks 24 & 25, and saw a pair of what I believe were Merlins flying over our yard Wednesday evening, August 24. Both of them had the shape of small falcons. I got a good look only at the brownish one when it Read more…

By Drew Monkman, 7 yearsAugust 31, 2016 ago
Sightings

Of Bobolinks and Double-breasted Cormorants

I heard and saw the first Bobolinks May 10 and managed some photos more recently. The males perch right on the tip of an apple tree branch to sing.  I’ve also included pictures of two cormorants on one of their favourite perches on the river just south of Lakefield near Read more…

By Drew Monkman, 7 yearsMay 26, 2016 ago
Sightings

A great morning of birding

On the morning of May 17 on roads west of Highway 7A, there were abundant Bobolinks, Eastern Meadowlarks, two Brown Thrashers, Savannah Sparrows, Eastern Kingbirds, Tree Swallows, and several Baltimore Orioles together in a shrub. Enid Mallory

By Drew Monkman, 7 yearsMay 22, 2016 ago
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