Gilligallou's Blog — Bird Counts

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 […]