Gilligallou's Blog — finches

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 […]  

It’s been a long winter awaiting the arrival of some of our winter birds such as finches.  For most of us, sightings of species such as redpolls, pine siskins and the like were few and far between, despite the fact that our feeders were ready and waiting. That all being said, there is some positive […]  

Each year toward the end of September the Finch Forecast is released brimming full of interesting data and observations across a variety of finch species here in Ontario. The forecast highlights the movements across the finch species with regards to their migration patterns and illustrates where and when they are moving and where they might […]