Gilligallou's Blog — Spring

While we certainly do not like to discriminate against any bird species, there comes a time when watching your feed get devoured by flocks of hungry birds grows tiresome.  For those of us that enjoy sharing our seed with all the native and visiting bird species to us here in Ottawa, sometimes we just need […]  

  Well, warbler season is here, folks as most of our busy little birds have arrived in the greater Ottawa area for the spring and summer season.  As the nesting season continues for some, it is ending for many others whose nests might still be full of chicks or just recently rid of them. None […]  

Image: Scarlet Tanager via Flickr One of the first signs of spring to many of us is the calming chorus of songbirds belting out their familiar tunes from the treetops above. But what if suddenly some of those songs disappeared? According to a recent study by researchers from the Department of Ocean Sciences at Memorial […]  

With such an exotic sounding name, many would expect this bird to be of Latin descent, hailing from the warm tropics of central or south America. While it does make its winter home throughout the Caribbean and parts of Mexico and Central America, this small warbler is anything but exotic in our neck of the […]