Weekly What Bird Thursday

Here is my W.W.B.W. post: Last week the correct answer was a female American Goldfinch after a late snow. Here is this week's picture and be sure to guess in the comments below!

Other W.W.B.W. posts*:
Birds In Your Backyard
Bird Boy
The Cats and the Birds

*Posts may not be up yet.

Feathers on Friday

Here is my F.o.F. post: At this time of year we get the vast flocks of gulls that descend on the fields and yards around. It is still early in the season so they aren't quite at their full numbers. After a recent rain, though, they loved the water, and we had lots.

Other F.o.F. posts:
Birds in Your Backyard
Bird Boy
The Cats and the Birds

Prairie Birder

Weekly What Bird Wednesday

Here is my W.W.B.W. post. Last week we had two guesses. It was actually a Savannah Sparrow! Here is where it was:

Here is this week's:

Other W.W.B.W. posts*:
Birds In Your Backyard
Bird Boy
The Cats and the Birds

*Posts may not be up yet.

Feathers On Friday

Here is my FoF post. I am still excited about the dove... please put up with just one more post. They have now decided to become feeder birds, not just sit there and preen. Before, if they came, they would stand by the feeder and not eat a seed, just preen. However today, they ate. I also discovered that these generally peaceful birds are bullies; scaring away the feeding birds.

I also had an interesting experience with doves yesterday. I observed one eating sunflower seeds whole. Intrigued, I kept watching and slowly but surely it's throat expanded as it held the seeds in there for the young doves.

Other F.o.F. posts:
Birds in Your Backyard
Bird Boy
The Cats and the Birds
Prairie Birder

Weekly What Bird Wednesday

Here is my W.W.B.W. post. Last week we had one guess with the correct answer being Gray Catbird. Here is this week's post.

Other W.W.B.W. posts*:
Birds In Your Backyard
Bird Boy
The Cats and the Birds

*Posts may not be up yet.

Feathers on Friday

Here is My F.o.F. post. A new bird that is now living in my yard are Mourning Doves. Just recently they came to the feeders. Here are some shots.

Strutting about

Pecking at a seed

Other F.o.F. posts:
Birds in Your Backyard
Bird Boy
The Cats and the Birds
Prairie Birder

Weekly What Bird Wednesday

It has been a busy summer and I have been quite preoccupied from the blog so I will try to get back into it. Here is my very late W.W.B.W. post. By the way, the last one was a Black-Billed Magpie.

Other W.W.B.W. posts*:
Birds In Your Backyard
Bird Boy
The Cats and the Birds

*Posts may not be up yet.

Closeup Monday

Here is a late C.U.M post. A few most recent pictures include exciting goldfinches at my feeder for the first time due to new trees in the area! A few pictures from the past week as well as a few from The Forks. See all the Forks pictures here.

Western Meadowlark

Brown-Headed Cowbirds showing off

Brown-Headed Cowbird

American Goldfinches and Cowbird

Cowbird

Weekly What Bird Wednesday

Here is my post. Sorry I missed last last few. We had one guess though, and it was wrong. The correct bird was a Lark Sparrow. Here is this week's:

Other W.W.B.W. posts*:
Birds In Your Backyard
Bird Boy
The Cats and the Birds

*Posts may not be up yet.

The Forks (again)

Last night, my family and I took a little outing the The Forks - a place in Winnipeg where the Red and Assiniboine Rivers meet - for a little time with our family. It is good habitat for many species of river duck as well as cavity nesting duck as the banks of the rivers are lined with trees. We saw Wood Duck (sadly, no males) with ducklings, Mallard ducklings, and goose goslings. :-) Here are some pictures.

The Royal Canadian Mint

The Provencher Bridge

St. Boniface Cathedral

Richardson's Ground Squirrel

Female Wood Duck and Duckling

Wood Duckling

Female Mallards

Straggle of Canada Geese

Recently fledged geese

A pair of Mallard.

Female Mallard and hiding duckling

Handsome male Mallard

Young male Mallard

Male Mallard

My sisters insisted I take a picture of the "one footed goose."

Some young birds feeding.

Chillin' it.

Sitting on the buoy.

Female House Sparrow attending nest.

Gray Catbird.

Museum of Human Rights