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The Nomadic Naturalist: July 2015
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Chronicling my birding and other outdoor explorations around Ontario and beyond! Waterloo Region CBC Map. Wednesday, 22 July 2015. Last summer I was really excited to find a Mantidfly at my moth light. I wrote up a pretty thorough summary about that observation including some information about Mantidflies in Canada and the identification of that beast so check it out. Anyways, fast forward to a couple of nights ago and sure enough, there was another mantidfly waiting for me! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Nomadic Naturalist: Great Canadian Birdathon - 2015 edition
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Chronicling my birding and other outdoor explorations around Ontario and beyond! Waterloo Region CBC Map. Wednesday, 27 May 2015. Great Canadian Birdathon - 2015 edition. The 2015 Burrell family birdathon was held on May 11.we had a great day birding the Pelee area with a dash to Blenheim and Lake St. Clair. Below is the [redacted] official write-up. If you want the full details, you'll have to put up some money for bird conservation :). Http:/ birdscanada.kintera.org/birdathon/mikeburrell. We grabbed so...
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The Nomadic Naturalist: Kingston Lark Sparrow
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Chronicling my birding and other outdoor explorations around Ontario and beyond! Waterloo Region CBC Map. Monday, 13 April 2015. On this warm spring evening Erica and I were pulling in to our local mini putt establishment when I got a text message from Mark Read. That read "Just found a Lark Sparrow at Lemoine Point.". Yep, he didn't even include an exclamation mark. So, with less than an hour of daylight left, we headed for Lemoine Point. From Pelee Island - most records fall in late April or early May.
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The Nomadic Naturalist: The Great Canadian Birdathon
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Chronicling my birding and other outdoor explorations around Ontario and beyond! Waterloo Region CBC Map. Wednesday, 18 March 2015. The Great Canadian Birdathon. To donate directly (credit cards accepted) go to my personal Birdathon page. And click "Give Now". Http:/ birdscanada.kintera.org/birdathon/. For the 18th consecutive year I am participating in the Great Canadian Birdathon. We have raised about $20,000 in that time and look forward to adding to that total this year. INCENTIVES – Of course,...
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The Nomadic Naturalist: eBird articles
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Chronicling my birding and other outdoor explorations around Ontario and beyond! Waterloo Region CBC Map. Since I like to talk about eBird, this page is an index to the different posts I've done about this amazing resource. 20 January 2012: eBird stats and discussion about eBird presentation I did for KFN. 29 January 2012: Total county ticks and my quest for 6000. 1 February 2012: updated Ontario eBird stats. 21 February 2012: using eBird to look at arrival patterns in American Crows. I have been interes...
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The Nomadic Naturalist: Greater White-fronted Goose and waterfowl at Long Point
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Chronicling my birding and other outdoor explorations around Ontario and beyond! Waterloo Region CBC Map. Thursday, 19 March 2015. Greater White-fronted Goose and waterfowl at Long Point. Big Creek is finally open and the warm melt water flowing through it is starting to open up a lead in Long Point's inner bay, so this morning when I stopped to check out the bridge on the causeway there I was happy to find about 1500 Tundra Swans, hundreds of ducks and geese and a single Greater White-fronted Goose.
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The Nomadic Naturalist: How to use your eBird data to plan your next birding trip.
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Chronicling my birding and other outdoor explorations around Ontario and beyond! Waterloo Region CBC Map. Thursday, 3 April 2014. How to use your eBird data to plan your next birding trip. I spend a lot of time on this blog talking about all the great things that eBird can do but the truth is there is tons that it doesn't (currently! To the right of this post, which was developed by Zachary Debruine. Denis Lepage of Bird Studies Canada. Runs an amazing website called Avibase. I've found it handy when tra...
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The Nomadic Naturalist: Guide to spring arrival dates in Ontario
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Chronicling my birding and other outdoor explorations around Ontario and beyond! Waterloo Region CBC Map. Saturday, 21 April 2012. Guide to spring arrival dates in Ontario. I originally posted this in April 2012 using 1900 to 2011 data. I have since updated everything to include up to the end of 2013.*. Following this short introduction you'll find a list of 198 of Ontario's fairly common birds and the dates you can reasonably expect to find them returning. M = 02 X (P - W) W. M = mass arrival date.
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The Nomadic Naturalist: April 2015
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Chronicling my birding and other outdoor explorations around Ontario and beyond! Waterloo Region CBC Map. Monday, 13 April 2015. On this warm spring evening Erica and I were pulling in to our local mini putt establishment when I got a text message from Mark Read. That read "Just found a Lark Sparrow at Lemoine Point.". Yep, he didn't even include an exclamation mark. So, with less than an hour of daylight left, we headed for Lemoine Point. From Pelee Island - most records fall in late April or early May.
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The Nomadic Naturalist: Back from the north (long post)
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Chronicling my birding and other outdoor explorations around Ontario and beyond! Waterloo Region CBC Map. Wednesday, 11 July 2012. Back from the north (long post). The trip was awesome, there was a crew of 8 of us staying at the really sweet Burnt Point research camp. The camp is about 3km from the coast and about 50 km east of the Winisk River. It is real tundra there so lots of completely new things for me to see! Anyways, I'll let some photos and video speak for themselves. Molt migrant Snow Geese.