Latest 2014 Additions

July 2014

Iceland with Quest Nature Tours, 1 to 11 July 2014

June 2014

Carden Alvar Wildlife in 2014

Announcement: Carden Alvar Provincial Park is proclaimed.

May 2014

Whimbrels resting at Colonel Sam Smith Park in Toronto on 26 May 2014

Video: Whimbrels at Colonel Sam Smith Park in Toronto on 26 May 2014

Ontario's Provincial Bird - Common Loon on Lake Ontario in Toronto on 22 May 2014

Semipalmated Sandpipers and Dunlin at Colonel Sam Smith Park in Toronto on 23 May

Video: a Dunlin guarding its territory in Toronto on 23 May 2014. Watch that Dunlin closely.

Subspecies hendersoni of Short-billed Dowitcher at Reesor Pond in Markham near Toronto on 22 May 2014

Olive-sided Flycatcher at top of Eastern Hemlock in our Toronto garden, 19 May 2014

Yellow-headed Blackbirds at Angler Line near Mitchell's Bay, Ontario on 9 May 2014

Video: Yellow-headed Blackbird singing at Angler Line, Lake St. Clair, Ontario, on 9 May

American Pipit at the Tip of Point Pelee on 8 May 2014

Whimbrel on the breakwall at Wheatley Harbour on 15 May 2014

Franklin's Gull in first summer plumage at Hillman Marsh Shorebird Cell 14 May 2014

Adult Laughing Gull in breeding plumage at Wheatley Harbour on 14 May 2014

Common Nighthawk at Point Pelee on 14 May 2014. There were two on branches near tip tram stop.

Marbled Godwit at Hillman Marsh Shorebird Cell on 4 May 2014

Willet at the tip of Point Pelee on 2 May 2014

Marbled Godwit at Hillman Marsh Shorebird Cell on 1 May 2014

April 2014

Northbound Shorebirds Workshops at Point Pelee National Park Visitor Centre

OFO Shorebird Viewing at Hillman Marsh, May 2, 5, 7, 10, 13 and 16, 2014

Spring Shorebirds at Hillman Marsh - article with photos in OFO News Feb. 2014

Loggerhead Shrike on the Carden Alvar on 24 April 2014

Great Horned Owl at Thickson's Woods in Whitby on 20 April 2014

Kumlien's Gulls still at Bluffers Park in Toronto on 17 and 18 April 2014

Wilson's Snipe on the Carden Alvar on 13 April 2014 - photo and video link

OFO's annual trip to Algonquin Park for boreal specialties on 12 April 2014

Video: Moose licking salt beside Highway 60 on 12 April 2014

Kumlien's Gulls at Bluffers Park in Toronto on 7 April 2014

New: The Birds of Thickson's Woods: Annotated Checklist. Order your copy here.

March 2014

Belize and Guatemala 2014 with Ontario Nature, 11 - 22 March 2014.

Video: Emerald Toucanet at Tikal, Guatemala on 19 March 2014

Variation in Kumlien's Gulls at Bluffers Park in Toronto on 2 March 2014

Spring Shorebirds at Hillman Marsh - article with photos in OFO News Feb. 2014

February 2014

Oregon Junco near Port Perry in Durham Region on 15 February 2014

Loggerhead and Northern Shrike ID by Ron Pittaway & Michael King - updated Feb 2014

Loon ID in Fall and Winter  - updated February 2014

Lapland Longspur on Halls Road near Cranberry  Marsh, Whitby on 3 February 2014

Red-bellied Woodpecker at Lynde Shores Conservation Area, Whitby, 8 February

Brown Thrasher at Lynde Shores Conservation Area in Whitby on 3 and 8 February

Varied Thrush at Guelph, Ontario on 4 February 2014

January 2014

Subspecies of the Great Horned Owl by Ron Pittaway - updated January 2014

Great Gray Owl at Brooklin near Toronto, Ontario on 18 January 2014

Lapland Longspur on Courtice Road, near Oshawa, Ontario on 14 January 2014

Subspecies of the Horned Lark by Ron Pittaway - updated January 2014

Morphs of the Eastern Screech-Owl by Ron Pittaway updated January 2014

Great Horned Owl at Tommy Thompson Park on 5 January 2014

Rare leucistic Trumpeter Swan at Bluffers Park in Toronto on 4 January 2014

Thayer's and Kumlien's Gulls at Bluffers Park in Toronto on 4 January 2014

December 2013

Arctic Gulls in Toronto on 28 December 2013

Trumpeter Swans interact at Bluffers Park in Toronto on 26 December 2013

Kumlien's Gulls at Bluffers Park in Toronto on 18 December 2013

Purple Sandpiper on the Toronto Christmas Bird Count on 15 December 2013

Snowy Owls in Toronto, 15 December 2013

Do Snowy Owls Have Ear Tufts? Link to two page Article

Purple Sandpiper in Toronto on 10 December 2013

King Eider on Lake Ontario on 8 December 2013

Northern Common Eider (borealis) on Lake Ontario on 6 December 2013

Thick-billed Murre at Kingston, Ontario, on 4 December 2013

Video: Thick-billed Murre at Kingston on 4 December 2014

Pale-winged Thayer's Gulls in the Canadian High Arctic - posted 3 December 2013

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