27Jun/14
Nesting Red-winged Blackbirds

Nesting Red-winged Blackbirds

First 2014 Red-winged Blackbirds to arrive Feels like just yesterday the first Red-winged Blackbirds had just arrived. I can still see them struggling to survive the last few frigid winter days as

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12Jun/14
Feeding White Bread to Wild Ducks and Geese is Killing Them

Feeding White Bread to Wild Ducks and Geese is Killing Them

Lately the local Canada Geese and ducks have been parading with their newly hatched offspring. In local nature parks, you can’t keep but notice people feeding them white bread. Bread they shouldn’t

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04Jun/14
Kabania – Nature Treehouse camping in a Cabanita

Kabania – Nature Treehouse camping in a Cabanita

Kabania is nestled in a cozy little wooded area in Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci, along the Ouareau Regional Forest Park (Parc régional de la Forêt Ouareau) in the Province of Quebec. Separating Kabania from the Ouareau Forest

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14May/14
Owl Chicks – Do you know what to do if you find one on the ground?

Owl Chicks – Do you know what to do if you find one on the ground?

Lately it seems I’ve been bumping into baby owls in a few different spots in and around the Montreal region. I wouldn’t have thought to much about it until a friend of

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13May/14
Black-crowned night herons have returned

Black-crowned night herons have returned

Last week, the Black-crowned night herons made their well awaited return. Black-crowned night heron Every year the Black-crowned night herons attract much of the attention from curious visitors to well seasoned residents who are

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24Apr/14
Sap flows in Spring and the Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers are in town

Sap flows in Spring and the Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers are in town

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, sucking sap An wonderful sign of Spring in the North Eastern states and Eastern Canada is the flowing sap. For many this may mean Maple Syrup and the Sugar Shack.

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01Nov/13
Harlequin Duck in Montreal’s Ile de la Visitation Nature Park

Harlequin Duck in Montreal’s Ile de la Visitation Nature Park

Late the other day, I was walking along the shore of the Montreal’s Back River in the Ile de la Visitaion Nature Park. In a small canal in front of the Moulin

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16Oct/13
Summer’s Gone! Fall Colors Are In! – Landscape Photography

Summer’s Gone! Fall Colors Are In! – Landscape Photography

Fall colors along Montreal’s Back River Summer came and Summer’s Gone! It went by so quickly that all I can seem to think about are the missed opportunities. What did I forget to

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14Oct/13
Snow Geese in Fall Migration – Réservoir Beaudet, Victoriaville

Snow Geese in Fall Migration – Réservoir Beaudet, Victoriaville

  Snow Geese Symposium October 25 and 26 – Reservoir Beudet, Victiriaville   A little something new this year. The City of Victoriaville and the Arthabaska MRC have rented Billboard Space on

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06Oct/13
Double-crested Cormorants in Montreal’s Nature Parks

Double-crested Cormorants in Montreal’s Nature Parks

Double-crested Cormorant The Double-crested Cormorants is not a rare sight in and around the island of Montreal. There’s plenty of shoreline and habitat for these birds to strive as they migrate through the area or stay for

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