It is October 15th today. I have 78 days left in my big year. I have 334 species on my year list, 4 short of the record of 338 species. I ha...

This weekend, I joined the University of Guelph wildlife club on the annual excursion to Long Point. The club has a great group of people ag...

I headed down to the Point Pelee area to try my hand at some hawk-watching. I had one target species in mind - Swainson's Hawk! Quite a ...

In my last blog post, I was complaining about the lack of potential year birds. Well, that seems to have changed! First of all, a Red Phalar...

Another few days has passed without any megas showing up in Ontario. Is it just me or has it been sparse for rarities the last month or so? ...

Here are the remaining miscellaneous photos from the north. Kicking it off is an American Pipit from the Moosonee lagoons. It was a new phot...

I am only 6 away from tying the big year record, and so consequently the number of potential species I could add is dwindling. I have made a...

Continuing on, here are a few more photos of some of the rarities we saw while up north. The Carolina Wren was one of the biggest surprise...

Spruce Grouse have to be one of my favorite bird species, one I don't get to see enough of. Prior this year I think I only had one sight...

To kick things off, here are the photos of the Lesser Black-backed Gulls we found at the North Bay landfill. This landfill is a FANTASTIC bi...