Latest Additions

April 2018

Shorebird Presentation at Point Pelee National Park 12 May and 17 May 2018

OFO Shorebird Celebration at Hillman Marsh 1-20 (except Mondays) May 2018 - join OFO experts to enjoy spring shorebird migration

Antarctica Page 1, 11-14 February - Drake Passage and Seabirds with Worldwide Quest - photos and videos

Antarctica Page 2, 14 February - Isle of Penguins - Half Moon Island - photos and videos

Antarctica Page 3, 15-17 February - Isle of Penguins - Cuverville Island and more - photos and videos

Antarctica Page 4 - 15 February Wilhelmina Bay photos and videos

Antarctic VIDEOS: 1. Killer Whales kill a Minke Whale  2..Elephant Seals hauled out on Livingstone Island

Wild Turkey Sees its Reflection. Pickering on 1 April 2018- photos and video

Loggerhead Shrike: Why the Carden Alvar? by Ron Pittaway

March 2018

White-winged Crossbills and more on the Carden Alvar on 31 March 2018 - photos and video

Turkey Vultures & Common Raven on Raccoon Carcass. Carden Alvar on 31 March 2018 - photos and video

Ducks on Canal Lake on the Carden Alvar on 31 March 2018 - photos and video

Iceland Gulls at Bluffers Park in Toronto on 28 March 2018 - photos and video

Meeting Richard Snell of Iceland Gull fame on 23 March 2018

Quest trip to Remote Upper Amazon In Peru 24 February to 3 March 2018 - 6 pages of photo and videos

Snowy Owl near Keswick on 22 March 2018 - photos and video

Canada Jays in Algonquin Park on 16 March 2018 - photos

Red Crossbills in Algonquin Park on 16 March 2018 - photos and 3 videos

Evening Grosbeaks in Algonquin Park on 16 March 2018 - photos and video

AGAIN Hybrid Redhead x Ring-necked Duck, Frenchman's Bay, Pickering, 17 March 2018 - photos & video

Hybrid Redhead x Ring-necked Duck, Frenchman's Bay in Pickering on 15 March 2018 - photos and video

Barnacle Goose at Schomberg North of Toronto on 13 March 2018 - video and photos

Opossum meets Red Fox in our Toronto garden on 11 March 2018 - video and photos

Commentary: Loggerhead Shrike's Last Stand by Ron Pittaway

February 2018

Gentoo Penguins take the plunge in Antarctica, February 2018 - video and photos

Canada Jay Name Change Proposal by Ron Pittaway

January 2018

Snowy Owls north of Toronto on 29 January 2018 - video and photos

Female Harlequin Duck in Burlington on 28 January 2018 - video and photos

Leucistic young Trumpeter Swan at Bluffers Park in Toronto on 23 October 2017 and 25 January 2018

Three first cycle Glaucous Gulls at Bluffers Park on 20 January 2018 - video and photos

Young female Snowy Owl feasted on frozen dead duck or gull at Frenchmans Bay on 18 Jan - video & photos

Female King Eider at Frenchman's Bay in Pickering near Toronto on 2 January 2018 - video and photos

Kumlien's Iceland Gulls at Bluffers Park in Toronto on 1 January 2018 - video and photos

December 2017

Snowy Owls in Toronto Area from 11 November to 27 December 2017. Photo and video

Adult male Harlequin Duck at Unwin Bridge in Toronto on 24 December 2017

Tufted Duck and Scaup photos and video on Lake Ontario on 20, 23 and 24 December 2017

Carolina Wren at our feeder in Toronto on 23 and 29 December 2017 - photos and video

Adult male Cooper's Hawk watching birds at our feeders in Toronto. 22 December 2017 - photos & video

Ashbridges Bay Waste Water Treatment Plant on Toronto CBC 17 December 2017

Long-tailed Ducks diving in unison at Tommy Thompson Park in Toronto, 17 December 2017 video & photos

Tundra and Trumpeter Swans at Tommy Thompson Park in Toronto on 17 December 2017

Niagara Gullwatchers, Snowy Owl and Tufted Titmouse, December 2017

Snowy Owls get together at Presqu'ile Provincial Park on 3 December 2017. Photos and video

November 2017

First winter Dunlin at Tommy Thompson Park on 27 November 2017

90 Sandhill Cranes migrate over Thickson Point, Whitby on 27 November 2017. Photos and video

First winter female King Eider in the Burlington Ship Canal on 24 November 2017

Juvenile Northern Gannet on Lake Ontario at Burlingon on 22 & 24 November 2017 - photos & action videos

Feeding Frenzy of Red-breasted Mergansers in Durham Region, east of Toronto on 20 November 2017

First year Anna's Hummingbird in Carleton Place near Ottawa, Ontario. Please see photos and video

First winter male Black-throated Gray Warbler and Nashville Warbler in Ottawa on 17 November 2017

Tens of thousands of Greater Snow Geese near Casselman in Eastern Ontario on 17 November 2017. Photos and two videos

First winter King Eider on Lake Ontario at Rotary Park in Ajax on 14 November 2017

Juvenile Cooper's Hawk in Brookbanks Ravine, Toronto, on 13 November 2017

Carolina Wren at our birdfeeders on Brookbanks Ravine in Toronto, 10 November 2017

MICHEL GOSSELIN - Profile of a Canadian Museum of Nature Ornithologist by Ron Pittaway

Two Cattle Egrets in Durham Region, east of Toronto on 2 November 2017

October 2017

Kinglet Killer strikes again - Giant Burdock at Tommy Thompson Park in Toronto on 14 |October 2017

Nelson's Sparrow at Tommy Thompson Park in Toronto on 1 October 2017

September 2017

Neotropic Cormorant at Cranberry Marsh, Whitby, on 27 September 2017

Fork-tailed Flycatcher at Tommy Thompson Park on 24 September 2017

WINTER FINCH FORECAST 2017-2018 by Ron Pittaway

Presqu'ile Provincial Park 4 - Marbled Godwit, Buff-breasted Sandpiper and video - 19 September 2017

Presqu'ile Provincial Park 2 - Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Marbled Godwit photos & videos. 16 September 2017

Presqu'ile Provincial Park 3 - More Shorebirds with photos and videos. 16 September 2017

Presqu'ile Provincial Park 1 - Shorebirds with photos and videos. 7 September 2017

More Northwest Passage 2017 Wildlife

Polar Bears and Walruses on 27 August and 3 September 2017 - photos and video

August 2017

Thayer's & Glaucous Gulls in the Canadian Arctic on 25 & 29 August 2017 - photos and videos

James Bay Shorebird Surveys at Longridge Point - 6 pages of photos & videos - 30 July to 14 August 2017

July 2017

Tricolored Heron at Tommy Thompson Park in Toronto on 21 July 2017

Juvenile Wilson's Phalarope at Ashbridges Bay in Toronto on 17 and 17 July 2017 - photo and videos

Quest Nature Tours Trip to Iceland 27 June to 7 July.2017 - 8 pages of photo and videos

Nessus Sphinx Moth in Janice and Art's garden in Niagara Falls, Ontario on 15 July 2017

Black-legged Kittiwake at Ashbridges Bay in Toronto on 13 July 2017

Peregrine Falcon at Ashbridges Bay in Toronto on 12 July 2017 - photos and video

Bonaparte's and Ring-billed Gulls at Ashbridges Bay in July in Toronto

Earlier 2017 Posts

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