Gilligallou's Blog — winter birding

For us and many of our valued customers, the true start to winter and suet season is when our good friend Dave Card drops off the first load of Fat Heads to our stores. These hand-crafted reclaimed wood creations are designed exclusively by Mr. Card not too far from our store in Almonte. Each Fat […]  

While the early fall here in the Ottawa area was quite tumultuous when it came to weather, things have seemed to have calmed down quite a bit over the past couple of weeks. Entering into a more “seasonal” temperature bracket, our migrating birds have left us and we have been treated to additional sightings to […]  

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 […]  

Life in the wild and the life many of us are accustomed to are two very different variations on living.  While we certainly need to take care of a number of things to survive each and every day of our lives, we have evolved in a way that allows us to live a much more […]