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February 2015

Toronto's Heermann's Gull 14 November 1999 to 16 September 2000.

Subspecies of Common and Hoary Redpolls - fully revised January 2015 - UPDATE 7 Feb: Roxane Filion's photos of Hornemann's Hoary from South Porcupine and Matt Walter's photo of a leucistic Common Redpoll from North Bay.

Adult male and a female Snowy Owl north of Toronto on 5 February 2015

More Variation in Iceland and Kumlien's Gulls at Bluffers Park in Toronto in January and February 2015. 11 Photos.

Mink, Ducks and Gulls at Bluffers Park in Toronto on 1 February 2015.

January 2015

Pair of Eastern Screech-Owls sunning themselves in Toronto on 31 January 2015

Peru Birding Lomas de Lachay & Lagunas de Ventanilla with Alejandro Tello on 4 November 2014 - 2 pages of photos

Southeast Peru Birding Trip with leaders David Beadle and Alex Durand 14 October to 3 November 2014 - 11 pages of photos

Subspecies of Common and Hoary Redpolls - fully revised January 2015

Adult Thayer's Gull in winter plumage at Bluffers Park in Toronto on 12 January 2015

Lake Ontario Winter Waterfowl Count - Tommy Thompson Park Route in Toronto on 11 January 2015

Three Thayer's Gull wings in the Royal Ontario Museum collection

Redpolls near Keswick, north of Toronto on 6 January 2015

Snowy Owl with ear tufts near Keswick, north of Toronto on 6 January 2015

Three Kumlien's Gulls at Bluffers Park in Toronto on 3 January 2015

First winter Cape May Warbler in Markham, Ontario on 1 January 2015

Winter Finch Forecast 2014-2015 by Ron Pittaway

December 2014

Cooper's Hawk near Niagara Falls, Ontario on 22 December 2014

Grey morph Eastern Screech-Owl in Brookbanks Ravine, Toronto, on 19 December 2014

First winter male King Eider in Toronto on 9 December 2014

Snowy Owls at Presqu'ile Provincial Park on 7 December 2014

Hermit Thrush at Niagara Falls on 1 December 2014

November 2014

Galapagos Gulls: Lava Gull & Swallow-tailed Gull with Quest Nature Tours 7-14 Nov 2014

Franklin's Gulls overwintering in Galapagos. San Cristobal Island on 9 November 2014

Galapagos - Darwin's Enchanted Isles with Quest Nature Tours, 5-15 November 2014.

Southeast Peru Birding Trip with leaders David Beadle and Alex Duran 14 October to 3 November 2014 - 11 pages of photos

Diademed Sandpiper-Plover in the Peruvian Andes on 2 November 2014

October 2014

Five Stilt Sandpipers at Duffins Creek in Rotary Park, Ajax near Toronto on 7 October 2014

September 2014

Rusty Blackbird and Brown Thrasher at Cranberry Marsh on 30 September 2014

Colour Morphs of the Mute Swan at Cranberry Marsh, Whitby on 9 September 2014

WINTER FINCH FORECAST 2014-2015 by Ron Pittaway

Red-necked Grebes with young at Colonel Sam Smith Park, Toronto on 15 September 2014

Least Bittern & Yellow-crowned Night-Heron at Colonel Sam Smith Park, Toronto on 14 Sept

Juvenile Western Sandpiper & juvenile Red Knot at Presqu'ile Provincial Park, 10 September

Olive-sided Flycatchers in Brookbanks Ravine on 10 September 2014

Shorebirds at Presqu'ile Provincial Park on Lake Ontario 23 August and 7 September

Two Olive-sided Flycatchers in Brookbanks Ravine, Toronto on 4 September 2014

OFO Gull Workshop at Niagara Falls on Saturday 29 November 2014. - Sorry Fully Booked

August 2014

Subadult Long-tailed Jaeger at Van Wagners Beach, Hamilton on 24 August 2014

Bill Gilmour's Bird and Butterfly Garden at Presqu'ile on 23 August 2014

Adult and juvenile Semipalmated Plovers at Presqu'ile Provincial Park on 23 August 2014

Red-throated Loon at Presqu'ile Provincial Park on Lake Ontario on 23 August 2014

James Bay Shorebird Surveys at Little Piskwamish - 5 pages - 30 July to 13 August 2014

Map of 2014 Southern James Bay Shorebird Project Camps

July 2014

Iceland with Quest Nature Tours, 1 to 11 July 2014

January to June 2014

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