The birds of Mount Royal
Nice piece on the birds of Mount Royal as a citizen census of its species begins.
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Blork 16:17 on 2025-02-03 Permalink
What, no owls?
Kate 19:45 on 2025-02-03 Permalink
Who?
Ian 11:19 on 2025-02-04 Permalink
Haha well played 😀
I saw cormorants at Beaver Lake this year, that was a surprise. They were hanging out on the rental boat docks. There’s herons in the mornings and of course lots of ducks, mostly mallards.
Blork 14:05 on 2025-02-04 Permalink
There was a cormorant sleeping on a rock in the park behind my place a while ago. I walked right up to it and took a picture. I could have poked it! https://www.flickr.com/photos/blork/52305174779/in/photolist-2nG2Gbg
dwgs 21:44 on 2025-02-04 Permalink
Years ago on a canoe trip in Northern Ontario (north of Lake Nipigon) I was surprised to see both cormorants and pelicans in great numbers. Pelicans summer as far north as the Saskatchewan / Northwest Territories border. There’s a place in SK called Pelican Narrows.
MarcG 09:17 on 2025-02-05 Permalink
Just wanna say it’s probably not a good time to be poking wild birds.
Kate 11:49 on 2025-02-05 Permalink
MarcG: You mean because of bird flu concerns?
MarcG 12:17 on 2025-02-05 Permalink
Yeah, sorry, was going to link to something to make it obvious what I was talking about but got lazy.
Also wanted to mention the interesting fact that birds can sleep half their brains at a time, even during flight, so if Blork had gone around to the other side of that funny fellow the other eye might have been open.