By the way, DICK is the banding code for Dickcissel. No, YOU grow up! Anyways, last Saturday I was successful in acquiring my first decen...

I arrived in the Pelee area late on Saturday night, though I had just enough light to check out Ridgetown and Blenheim on the way down. No o...

After the success of finding the foxsnakes in a new area, we continued on and checked some "tried and true" areas, hoping to turn ...

This past weekend I decided to check out some of my not-so-local haunts in southwestern Ontario. Less than 2 hours after arriving in the doo...

Chestnut-sided Warblers are a common species found throughout central and northern Ontario. They favour successional growth areas, so any ar...

It has been a jam-packed few weeks to say the least. Between morning bird surveys, evening Whip-poor-will surveys, and driving between our s...

Just over a month ago, Mike Burrell wrote a post on his blog about his successful quest for 6000 "county bird ticks" for Ontario...

Mink Frog is one of the least known species of frogs to herpers in southern Ontario. Not because it is rare by any means,  but because it on...

I am currently in Wawa, ON after an insane few days of bird surveys in northern Ontario. Between morning bird surveys, long drives between s...

It has been a busy month for me to say the least! Late May through mid July is the window to conduct breeding bird surveys in Ontario, and s...