2014 Index

 

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

 

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

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

 

Galapagos Gulls: Lava Gull and Swallow-tailed Gull during Quest Nature Tours trip to Galapagos 7 to 14 November 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.

 
 

 

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 September 2014

 

Olive-sided Flycatchers in Brookbanks Ravine on 10 September 2014

 

Juvenile Western Sandpiper and juvenile Red Knot at Presqu'ile Provincial Park 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.

No Charge for this event. Please register on OFO website to help us know how many will attend.

 

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 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

 

Two moths at Little Piskwamish on western James Bay on 3 and 12

 

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

 

July  2014

Western James Bay Map of Camps in 2014. I was at Little Piskwamish.

 

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

 

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 2014

 

Subspecies hendersoni of the 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

 

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 154 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 - come shorebirding at Hillman and Point Pelee. Article with photos in OFO News, February 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.

 

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. All 313 species illustrated with colour photos.

 

March  2014

Belize and Guatemala 2014 with Ontario Nature, 11 - 22 March 2014. Seven pages of photos of birds, mammals, flowers and more.

 

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

 

 

 

February 2014

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

 

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

 

Loon ID in Fall and Winter by Ron Pittaway and Michael King - updated February 2014

 

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

 

Red-bellied Woodpecker at Lynde Shores Conservation Area in Whitby on 8 February 2014

 

Varied Thrush at Guelph, Ontario on 4 February 2014

 

Brown Thrasher at Lynde Shores Conservation Area in Whitby on 3 February 2014

 

January 2014

Subspecies of the Great Horned Owl by Ron Pittaway (Revised 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 (Revised January 2014)

 

Morphs of the Eastern Screech-Owl by Ron Pittaway (Revised 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