Our first sparrow run of the year. We will be visiting a consistently productive sparrow area just outside of Ottawa: Burnt Lands Provincial Park. Continue reading Sparrow Outing – June 5 →

From the third week of May – mid July 2015, I will be conducting breeding bird surveys throughout eastern Ontario; primarily, Ottawa, Lanark, Frontenac, and Leeds and Grenville Counties. Continue reading Conducting Breeding Surveys →

Learning birdsong can be quite a challenge! For some, mnemonics work quite well, i.e. the familiar “sweet-sweet-shredded wheat!” of a Yellow Warbler singing from a roadside thicket. For others (myself included) visualisation is perhaps the key element to learning each song and getting ’em glued into the memory bank. Continue reading “Looking” at Similar Songs →