Sharon and Jacques’ Excellent Blog

The spring migration is picking up. After the sweltering heat of Saturday (31C), it dropped down to a drizzly 9C on Sunday, excellent birding weather. I went hawk watching on Saturday and managed to miss the big broadwing migration on Friday. Colin, a fellow hawkwatcher, set a new personal record for Beamer with over 8,000 [...]

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Well it’s been a long and cold winter and it’s finally over. Not sure that what we have today (its cold, blowing and raining) is much better but at least almost all the snow has melted except for one recalcitrant blob in a dark corner of the garden. I was tempted to take a power [...]

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Ontbirds (an excellent birding mailing list for Ontario) reported a Ruff, a shorebird and also a bird I’ve never seen before just outside of Angus, Ontario. I decided that I would give finding it a try rather than going to Long Point as the weather was a little on the rainy side further south.
The birds [...]

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Around this time of April, the broad-winged hawks start migrating north in large numbers and the right conditions can produce movements in the thousands of birds. In some 15+ years of hawk watching, its one of the few migrations I haven’t seen and every year I try my luck with usually poor results. April 19, [...]

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I was back at Beamer Point CA outside of Grimsby, Ontario on April 6. Contrary to expectation, it was very sunny with a cold north wind blowing off Lake Ontario. This created perfect blue skies which made it extremely difficult to see any birds. The birds that were seen were generally very high. The net [...]

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