This River Otter (female, I think) sat on the ice in front of our place yesterday afternoon (December 2) and this morning. She ate almost constantly and moved around from hole to hole. The first picture isn’t very clear but I included it because of what she was eating. I’m Read more…
At our cottage on Crowe Lake, we’ve been watching our annual convention of Trumpeter Swans. After I took this video there was quite the flurry of activity. We are so fortunate to be able to enjoy this part of nature. Maxine Prentice, Peterborough Update from Maxine: The swans return each Read more…
Here’s a shot of an Eastern Screech-owl that I found on Saturday, Feb 29, near Little Britain. Carl Welbourn This Bald Eagle has been at our waterfront on Cameron Street, Peterborough. It had flown over the river and swooped down and brought out a huge fish that it dropped on Read more…
Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) (1) – Reported Feb 01, 2020 17:19 by Matthew Tobey – Peterborough Municipal Airport–pond, Peterborough, Ontario – Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=44.2376419,-78.3566642&ll=44.2376419,-78.3566642 – Checklist: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S64024864 – Comments: “Calling from woodlot between Moncrief Line and the airport.” Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) (10) – Reported Feb 02, 2020 08:15 by Read more…
White-throated Sparrows arrive on schedule: Right on schedule, five White-throated Sparrows arrived in our backyard this morning, the first of the fall. Some years, several dozen are here at the same time. They enjoy the finch mix (millet, nyger, sunflower seeds) I scatter on the ground each spring and fall. Read more…
Cooper’s Hawk: I had a Cooper’s Hawk visiting the neighborhood for a couple of days in the last week of December. Also had a pile of grey feathers (likely a Mourning Dove) in the garden near our feeder at this time. I managed to get a reasonable photo when it Read more…
Peterborough Field Naturalists Sunday AM Nature Walk (Sept. 30) Today, a group of us walked along the hydro corridor west of Hetherington Dr. (just south of Woodland) and into the north end of University Heights Park. We enjoyed the abundant asters (e.g., New England, Heath, Panicled, Heart-leaved), Zig-Zag Goldenrod, White Read more…
On my way home from a friend’s this evening at dusk (Jan. 27 – 4:45pm) while driving through pouring rain on Co. Rd. 38 between the Dummer-Asphodel Road and Webster Road south of Warsaw, an immature Snowy Owl suddenly appeared flying along beside me at about hydro line height. It Read more…
Bald Eagle: We live on the Sixth Line of Selwyn (right behind Paris Marine). I spotted this adult Bald eagle in the tree beside our house on Monday, December 18. Hope you enjoy it. Heather Turner Red-winged Blackbirds: My “ long Read more…
N.B. Whenever I refer to “home”, it is between Warsaw and Lakefield, south of the Sawer Creek Wetland. Passerines and other birds and animals. A Yellow-billed Cuckoo flew over my kayak as I began to paddle up the Indian River from Back Dam Park at Warsaw on September 9th. It Read more…
I saw first saw this fabulous red phase Eastern Screech-owl on the 9th Line of Selwyn at about 8:30 this morning, March 11. I was bringing home hay and went by it three times over the course of two and a half hours. It was still there and cute as Read more…
This Eastern Screech-owl showed up in our drive shed in Ennismore on Saturday, February 4. We live just south of the Yankee Line. Steve Plunkett, Ennismore Note: Screech-owls may be increasing in the Kawarthas. A record four birds were tallied on the 2016 Peterborough Christmas Bird Count. D.M.
Common Loon (Gavia immer) (1) – Reported Jan 20, 2017 12:00 by Dave Milsom – Lakefield Marsh, Peterborough, Ontario – Map: – Checklist: – Comments: “continuing bird diving near red marker buoy” Great Gray Owl (Strix nebulosa) (1) – Reported Jan 15, 2017 14:15 by Michael Light – Harold Town Read more…
Eastern Screech-Owl (Megascops asio) (1) – Reported Dec 18, 2016 04:00 by Iain Rayner – PTBO – CBC Area 3 (Wedge from river to cty rd 4), Peterborough, Ontario – Map: – Checklist: – Comments: “Responded to whinnying playback. In area near Water St N. Tim Hortons.” Great Horned Owl Read more…
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…
Eastern Screech-Owl (Megascops asio) (1) – Reported Mar 15, 2016 23:45 by Scott Gibson – 1_Gibson Home – Bissonnette Dr., Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario – Map: – Checklist: – Comments: “continuing. giving clear tremolo, closer to house than on other dates.” Eastern Screech-Owl (Megascops asio) (1) – Reported Mar 14, 2016 Read more…
Eastern Screech-Owl (Megascops asio) (1) – Reported Jan 27, 2016 23:10 by Iain Rayner – Ptbo – Hooton Dr, Peterborough, Ontario – Map: – Checklist: – Comments: “Bird responded well to the N of road to imitations of Screech Owl with whinny.” Northern Shrike (Lanius excubitor) (1) – Reported Feb Read more…
This little fellow, an Eastern Screech-owl, perched on our suet chunk between 4:30 and 5:30 yesterday afternoon (Feb. 24). We thought maybe he just wanted to get out of the wind as we didn’t see him pecking at the suet, unless he was attracted by the many small birds in Read more…
Last night I turned on the deck light and was just about to go out to fill the heated birdbath when just 6 feet away from me, I spotted an Eastern Screech-owl on the lowest branch of the spruce that grows beside the deck. It was up against the trunk Read more…
The Petroglyph’s Christmas Bird Count, centered on Petroglyph’s Provincial Park, was held on Saturday, December 27, 2014. Twenty-seven birders took part. 2717 individual birds were counted. Number of species: 38 (Just two shy of the record high of 40.) Species recorded in a record high number: Red-tailed Hawk (10 vs Read more…
Six years after putting the thing up, an Eastern Screech Owl has finally moved into a box that I had installed near Stoney Lake. It was on November 14th 2014 when I looked out my friend`s cottage window and saw the little owl’s puckered face staring back at me. Screech Read more…
I thought this was a neat photo. My sister-in-law in the Beaches in Toronto found this Eastern Screech-owl when she came home from work on March 7. It was sitting on the porch in her urns. Jamie Brockley Note from Tim Dyson: “What a nice photo of a classic “brown Read more…
On Tuesday February11, my wife & I were having lunch, when she noticed a brown and white feathered creature sitting on our garland outside the kitchen window. We investigated and to our surprise it was an Eastern Screech-Owl. I took a number of pictures, which I’m sending you. We had Read more…