Tuesday Tale

Nothing matters but the weekend, from a Tuesday point of view!  Well, that is unless you have news reporter Laura Zilke from Global News coming to your home that morning."What what what?!?!?!?!" you ask.Ya, that was me too earlier that morning.  I woke up in usual fashion, got the Budgies out of bed, made a coffee, ran an errand and had a brief stop in at a park down the road.  It wasn't a very exciting morning, but in the back of...

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Beautiful Hawk, No People (well, hardly any)

On Saturday January 18th, I went out birding for the afternoon with a friend of mine.  Our destination was eventually going to be States side, late afternoon, somewhere in the Buffalo, New York area for Short-eared Owls but we made a few stops along the way.  One being where I met this Hawk a few weeks earlier.It wasn't our intention to see this bird.  Snowy Owls were on the brain for the spot and I completely forgot about this bird...

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Why I Didn't Like This Monday...

Ugh, Mondays, they come so fast and ever since I've been back on a 5 day work week the last near year, I am not a fan of them once again.But this past Monday, January 13th 2014 certainly was exceptional and I don't care for a repeat any time soon.I thought the worst thing to happen to me was going to be my dental appointment.  I go every 6 months like a good patient, doing my best to care for my teeth, but I never enjoy the visits even as nice...

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Junior, where have you been?

We had a wonderful surprise this weekend as an old friend of ours came by for a visit.  We call him Junior, as in Smokey Jr, because we know without a doubt this little guy is from the bloodline of a friendly Squirrel we knew some years ago that we called Smokey.I took this pic of him with my Blackberry on Sunday afternoon.Junior was a popular and regular visitor back in the summer of 2012.  And somewhere by winter time he disappeared. ...

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Beautiful Hawk, Ugly People

We recently came across this Red-tailed Hawk in our travels of Southern Ontario.  A big beautiful bird sitting on top of a roadside construction sign.  What really got our attention was the crowd of people, mostly photographers, surrounding this bird.Can you see the Hawk in the shot?  Upper left sign to the red car.Of course we pull over.  Angie opted out of getting out of the truck and enjoyed the view of a Snowy Owl off in the...

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Yay! Pierre Came Home!

If you read my last blog about the Toronto Ice Storm and caught the end of it where I expressed my concerns for my Pigeon pal Pierre.  Well, great news!  He came home on January 2nd, 2014...  roughly 2 weeks since I last saw him.The last week or more, I've been watching out the kitchen window for him.  Some Pigeons would fly in and I'd be scoping the group out for him.  A couple times I thought he was in the mix but always...

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