Gilligallou's Blog — Bird Habitat

Natural disasters like the forest fires raging in western Canada are extremely detrimental to not only the trees and foliage, but to the inhabitants of these wooded areas, often injuring, killing and displacing thousands of animals. Often the result of extremely dry climate, forest fires ignite and can burn for months on end, even while […]  

While many birds (and us humans) need and love healthy and strong growing trees, many species also can find a variety of uses for dead trees, or “snags”.   A snag is a dead or almost-dead tree that is still standing or leaning in the air perhaps on another tree and is often disregarded by many […]  

Much like their inhabitants, hummingbird nests can be quite difficult to locate and identify. As you can imagine, the size of the nest of a hummingbird is actually quite small and can easily be missed, even by the most trained eye. The reason they are so difficult to find goes beyond just the size of […]

Much like anything that brings us a great deal of joy, some of us can easily overdo it when it comes to our backyard birds. From too much seed, to overcrowding bird houses and nesting boxes we all do our very best to give our birds what they need, especially come winter. But how much […]