New York

Well, it’s not the big news it would have been just a couple of years ago, but one of these wandering Scott’s Orioles has made it to Manhattan. The bird is said to have appeared more than a month ago, but was just identified today.
Nice one!

This fine little fellow was on the path at the Rogers Center last week, and only grudgingly ceded his place to the lumbering biped with the camera.

He was quite aggressive, as behooves a small and probably tasty prey item during raptor migration.
Anyone out there care to fill me in on this creature’s identity?

He was about [...]

I was fortunate yesterday morning to get to go birding with Debbie and Harvey here in Hamilton. They showed me the best local birding site I’ve seen so far, a remnant marsh and impoundment barely 5 minutes from our place; Alison and I had glimpsed it from the road the other day, but it takes [...]

While Alison toiled away at her desk, I made another late-morning visit to the Rogers Center yesterday. I’ve decided that it’s a nice enough spot, reminiscent in many ways of the large city park in another Hamilton that served as my “home patch” for a couple of years. Canada Geese abound, and on a nice [...]

The astronomers would have us believe that autumn is a time, that long stretch of short days between the second equinox and the second solstice of the year. But they’re wrong, of course; culturally and emotionally, autumn has always been a place. And in North America, that place is anywhere Canada Geese set their wings [...]