Today is day one of the new season of “Feederwatch” and got off to a good start with the early morning appearance of a Sharp-shinned Hawk - always a nice bird to have visiting were it not for the fact that since it put in an appearance we have seen little else in the garden. The photo had to be snatched at a distance, cropped and tweaked for publication ….. but [...]
Archive for November, 2006
Sharp start to Feederwatch
Posted in BIRDS & BIRDING on 11 November, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Missed opportunities
Posted in BIRDS & BIRDING on 10 November, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Close by on Ile-St-Helene this week a Black-throated gray warbler and a Worm-eating Warbler have been showing to the great delight of those able to take time off from work to go looking for them. real wanderes and far from home ….. we got the BTGW as a lifer in Arizona which is where this one ought [...]
The Big Year Competition
Posted in BIRDS & BIRDING on 4 November, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Next year is the 90th anniversary of Bird Protection Quebec …. one of the ways in which it is to be commemorated is the running of a major year-long birding competition, and guess who one of the organisers is?
Rather than explain it all here, I suggest that you check out the details at the BPQ [...]
Leaves
Posted in GARDENING on 4 November, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The majority of the leaves from the deciduous trees are now down and those on the Larch are well coloured and will be falling shortly. We are fortunate in that, for some reason, leaves tend not to lie too long on the ground but blow away to our neighbours while thjose that do remain we [...]
Feederwatch
Posted in BIRDS & BIRDING on 2 November, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The annual “Feederwatch” season starts in a couple of weeks time …… every weekend from mid November to next spring we shall be counting the birds in our garden as part of one of our contributions to Citizen Science.
Find out more at http://www.bsc-eoc.org/national/pfw.html and then sign up as a feederwatcher yourself.
Taxing matters
Posted in Other Stuff on 2 November, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This is not a rant – I shall abjure rants – but yesterday I received a missive from Revenu Québec informing me that I had underpaid my taxes by almost $9000 in 2003. Needless to say, they were wrong and I have the documents to prove it but it added years to my age and [...]
