Gilligallou's Blog

The orange plumage is perhaps a more wonderful sight than that of hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. Standing between 2nd and 3rd base for years playing for a Major League Baseball team named after this now famous songbird. The Baltimore Oriole treats bird watchers with its blaze orange colouring and its sweet songs that […]  

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 […]

Stumbling across a stranded or abandoned baby bird can immediately tug on the heartstrings of many birders. As conservationists and bird lovers, we naturally want to do everything we can to help bird populations flourish for many generations to come. The fact of the matter is, in many cases, these solo birds are rarely lost […]  

As birders, we’ve all been there; either catching a glimpse of a unique bird flying past or hearing a unique and unknown song while in your home, backyard or out in the field. For most of us, it can become a mad, but quiet dash to identify the bird and possibly snap a photograph if […]