Field Notes

Hannah & I are now in the final stages of preparation for our trip to Israel. Needless to say we are really looking forward to it. The...

It's official: Shrikes love the Carden Alvar; Loggerhead Shrikes in the summer, and Northern Shrikes in the winter. On a quick drive thr...

I'm the first to acknowledge that there is a birding circuit that many Ontario birders follow, and that I am on it much of the time. The...

Every birder has their own personal twitching thresholds. Whether I am willing to chase a given bird will depend on distance, degree of rari...

It seems so often the case that when an unusual bird shows up in Ontario it just happens to be hundreds of kilometres away. Ontario is, afte...

Um, no I'm a Mocker. Today I took a day off from work. As an extra bonus, Hannah was "working from home" so we got to spend ...

Today we sojourned to the Haldimand plain, in search of winter owls, rare geese and a new corvid for our Ontario list. Wouldn't you know...