Finch Forecast
The 2022-2023 Winter Finch Forecast is Here!
Winter finches are here! Learn how to attract them to your backyard.
Bird Baths
4 meaningful ways to prep your backyard for winter birds this year
Prepare your backyard for birds this winter by following a few easy steps.
Local News
Welcome to 2020 – Here’s What’s Happening in the Birding World and Beyond!
Well folks, we made it into another decade, and we couldn’t be happier to be here. With the holiday season...
Nesting Boxes
How to Choose the Right Location for Your Barred Owl Nesting Box
Without a terrible amount of snow on the ground and temperatures that are still quite bearable, now is a great...
bird feeding
Welcome to Winter – Get Your Yard Ready with Suet
Rendered safely and made from a number of healthy ingredients, our suet options are seemingly endless and so is the...
Fall Birding
Tips for Attracting Winter Finches During the Fall
In tandem with this year’s annual finch forecast, we thought it would be timely to touch on a few helpful...
Cardinals
How to Keep Cardinals in Your Yard Through the Fall and Winter
With a little over a week until the official start to the fall season, it is a wonderful time of...
Bird Baths
Getting Ready for Winter: Nesting Box and Bird Bath Maintenance
Let’s say this; things are quite seasonal at the moment! As we round the corner into the mid-portion of...
Bird Protection
A Brief History of the Evening Grosbeak
As we settle into the month of November and temperatures continue to decline into a more wintery range, we are...
bird feeding
What to Feed Winter Finches
While many of us look forward to the spring months when our summer birds return from their tropical locales, this...
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Fall Spotlight – The Pine Siskin
Keeping with our October focus on finch species, this week we’ll be talking about the often-gregarious pine siskin. Usually traveling...
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Fall Spotlight: The Common Redpoll
For those of us residing here in the Ottawa area, fall is certainly upon us, despite the last efforts of...
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The 2018-19 Winter Finch Forecast
As we creep our way into October, any avid birder can tell you that nothing excites us quite as much...
Bird Counts
Learning the Rules of the Great Backyard Bird Count
Excitement is building as we make our way through the month of February here in the wonderful world of birding....
Bird Behavior
Why a Fly Through Feeder is Great for New Birders
You’ve always enjoyed Mother Nature and everything she has to offer and have found yourself to have a particular affinity...
bird feeding
How to Attract Finches to Your Yard This Winter
Each season of the year has its own unique draws for most of us in the birding world. While we...
Bird Behavior
Where Are All the Birds This Winter?
This is a question we have faced in person in both of our Ottawa stores and online via our website,...
bird feeding
The 2017 Gilligallou Bird Christmas Gift Guide
Well, here we are. A mere ten days ahead of Christmas and by all accounts, it certainly looks as if...
Bird Counts
How & Why You Should Join in a Christmas Bird Count This Year
Each year that goes by we seem to experience more change in all areas of life and the birding world...
Bird Behavior
Snowy Owls Set to Invade in Record Numbers Again This Winter
As (most) of our migrants have left us for the year, the shift has been steadily moving towards winter birding...
bird feeding
Welcome to Suet Season – How to Offer Suet to Your Backyard Birds
For us and many of our valued customers, the true start to winter and suet season is when our good...
Bird Behavior
Making the Transition from Fall to Winter Birding
While the early fall here in the Ottawa area was quite tumultuous when it came to weather, things have seemed...
Bird Behavior
This Year’s Winter Finch Forecast Has Been Released!
Each year, for many , many years Ron Pittaway has studied and produced the winter Finch forecast, the basis of his...
Bird Behavior
When Birds Choose to Conserve Energy Rather Than Expend It
Life in the wild and the life many of us are accustomed to are two very different variations on living. ...
Bird Counts
The 2017 Great Back Yard Bird Count is in the Books
Well, another Great Backyard Bird Count has come and gone and the 2017 installment was more successful than ever. Shattering...