Excitement is building as we make our way through the month of February here in the wonderful world of birding. As we progress through the winter months here in the Ottawa area, sightings of our winter finches and colourful cardinals are everywhere. As we continue to move toward the spring, our anticipation and focus moved […]

This is a question we have faced in person in both of our Ottawa stores and online via our website, Facebook and Instagram profiles.  With winter officially arriving today, many are wondering where the throngs of birds we are accustomed to seeing at our feeders have disappeared to. While this statement might not apply to […]

Each year that goes by we seem to experience more change in all areas of life and the birding world is no different .  With some of my recent speaking engagements I refer to it as the runway effect; where everything runs along fairly consistently, gaining momentum, then all of a sudden, lift off and […]

Each year, for many , many years Ron Pittaway has studied and produced the winter Finch forecast, the basis of his forecast is the boreal forest cone crops, as you will see here this year is a bumper crop. We all have noticed changes at our feeders this fall, the weather has played a roll for […]

Well, another Great Backyard Bird Count has come and gone and the 2017 installment was more successful than ever.  Shattering records, this year’s count was the biggest count on record, as birders submitted more checklists and counted more species than ever before recorded in the 20-year history of the count. Getting its start in the […]

It’s that very special time of the year again, and while we are all undoubtedly feeling the love today, make sure you do the same for our beloved birds this coming weekend. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) officially kicks off this Friday, February 17th and runs until Monday, February 20th […]

Administered by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Feederwatch is celebrating its 30th anniversary after being launched right here in Ontario back in the mid-1970’s.  With an original enrollment of just 4,000 people across North America, today’s project is operational across the United States and Canada with an estimated 20,000 participants. What is Project Feederwatch? Operating […]

Well it is that time of year again; hot cocoa, shopping, warm jackets, jingle bells and bird counts.  Each and every year for the last 117 years, the National Audubon Society holds its annual citizen-driven Christmas Bird Counts in the weeks leading up to Christmas and into the month of January. Kicked off back in […]