Category Archives: birds

  Kootenay Lake has a high proportion of Ospreys and for the next month they will be mating.    Normally, it is a fairly orderly affair where the male flies in and descends onto the back of the female as … Continue reading →

  Last Saturday, I went to Waneta to do birding with a small group led by Paul Prappas and Carolee Colter. It was frustrating and exhilarating. Frustrating because the birds they were viewing were almost always small and distant and … Continue reading →

  A week or so ago, Rufous and Calliope Hummingbirds were observed in Nelson, so out went our feeders. A week went by and then I only saw a fleeting rufous and a fleeting calliope and then nothing till today … Continue reading →

  Recently, I posted two male migrants: a male Mountain Bluebird and a male Wood Duck. I have just managed to photograph the females of the species also. Both look somewhat different than the males. Here is the female Mountain … Continue reading →

  In two days we have seen two nice migrants: a couple of Killdeer, and a Wood Duck. Yesterday we watched a Killdeer come in to land. It joined another and hobnobbed, but as long as we watched, they did … Continue reading →

  Bird watchers enthusiastically watch the migrants come and go. Here are seven this year. Trumpeter Swans come here on their way north to breed. Here are some on March 1st. Charts show the G0lden-crowned Kinglet as being permanent here … Continue reading →

  Seen this morning were two birds. a chickadee with its mouth full, and a merlin stretching. The Black-capped chickadee is excavating a nest for itself and its partner (which was on an adjacent bush). I have seen this two … Continue reading →

  In two sunny days, I saw a couple of birds: one black and white, the other blue and white. The magpie was gathering sticks for its nest. The mountain bluebird was at Kokanee Park searching for grubs to eat. … Continue reading →

  Two Northern Flickers were courting by bobbing at one another on the top of a tall piling. They then flew off – or so I thought. I kept shooting, hoping to catch their initial flight. But, they didn’t fly; … Continue reading →