The Saga Continues...

For those of you who enjoy our visiting Pigeon Pierre, this one is for you.He's been visiting for over a year and the adventures continue. Back in the Spring he had himself a little lady friend, who unfortunately disappeared and I believe something bad happened to her, like a Hawk snagged her as Pierre was a mess for some weeks after Maggie was gone. He was so skittish and spooked by everything. But in time, he was his old self again, and a lot...

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6 years with Misfit

On September 17th we celebrated our 6th year with Misfit joining our family!She showed up in late May of 2007, and lived in our backyard (and surroundings) until September 17th when I finally decided to bring her in with the Autumn approaching and nights were getting colder.A friend gave us a bird cage and I left it out back all summer.  Misfit ruled over the House Sparrows but wouldn't dare mess with the Blackbirds.  So when she was lower...

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Adventure in Algonquin

This past weekend Angie and I went up to Algonquin park for a couple nights.  Its a bit of a tradition for my birthday, which lands right in the middle of September.  It's a great time of year to visit even if the fall colors haven't really started up yet; as there are less people in the park, the weather is cooler too.I will leave the tellings of our lodgings up to Angie as I am certain she is going to blog about it. Let's just say we...

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I Got Her Number!

If you read my last blog, you will quickly catch on to what this blog is about.  If not, click here to get caught up.Its been just over a week with this female American Goldfinch coming around the nyjer feeders and teasing me with the flashes of her band.  I've spent many hours out back with her in recent days.  I've waited, I've stooped on the ground to shoot up at her, I've crawled across the grass to hopefully get a little closer...

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Banded Birds

Over the Labour Day weekend we took notice to some banded birds visiting our bird feeders.First off was this male Baltimore Oriole. You cannot see the band in this photo but I love this shot and had to share... and really I am not one for birds on bird feeder shots overall.A better view of the band here, and our point of view of him, zoomed in of course, from where we sit out back and watch all the action fly in.It took some time and a bunch of...

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