March 8th, 2013 | By Dave Ingram | Published in Bird Watching, Birds
Update: March 24, 2013 Last confirmed sighting of the Citrine Wagtail on eBird was Thursday, March 21. However, since that time, access to the farm lane has been restricted due to active farming and the lane is gated. Original Post I have to admit that during the dark days of January, 2013 I had written the citrine [...]
February 27th, 2013 | By Dave Ingram | Published in Bird Watching, Birds, Environmental Issues, Landscapes, Nature Photography, Nature Viewing, Owls, Wetlands
If you haven’t been down to Boundary Bay yet this year, you might want to take a stroll on the dike between 64th Street and 72nd Street. It’s a decent walk and will give you plenty of time to think about wildlife photography and the ethical decisions that one makes as a bird photographer. You’ll [...]
February 21st, 2013 | By Dave Ingram | Published in Backyard Birds, Bird Watching, Birds, Woodpeckers
Having a backyard (or in this case, front yard) suet feeder is great for easy, coffee drinking (shade grown/bird friendly of course), birdwatching. Since we’ve finally gotten around to putting our feeders up, we can settle in to enjoy the show. Over the course of a week a flock of bushtits make regular appearances, chestnut-backed [...]
January 26th, 2013 | By Dave Ingram | Published in Bird Watching, Birds, Estuaries, Hawks, Nature Photography, Nature Viewing, Owls
Last weekend I went over to Vancouver with two other birders/photographers to “twitch” the red-flanked bluetail and brambling reported on British Columbia Bird Alert. Part of our plan was to spend the remainder of the day out looking for owls and other birds out at Boundary Bay. There are a couple of places to access [...]
January 22nd, 2013 | By Dave Ingram | Published in Backyard Birds, Bird Watching, Birds, Nature Photography, Nature Viewing, Uncategorized
This weekend was the first chance that I was able to get over to the Lower Mainland to twitch the red-flanked bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus) that was found by Colin McKenzie on January 13. Like the citrine wagtail, the red-flanked bluetail at Queens Park in New Westminster is a Canadian first. Since it seeing it involved a [...]
January 2nd, 2013 | By Dave Ingram | Published in Bird Watching, Birds
Update: March 24, 2013 Last confirmed sighting of the Citrine Wagtail on eBird was Thursday, March 21. However, since that time, access to the farm lane has been restricted due to active farming and the lane is gated. Update: March 6, 2013 Checked the original farm site on Wednesday, March 6 with Viktor Davare and had [...]
January 1st, 2013 | By Dave Ingram | Published in Bird Watching, Birds
The Christmas Bird Count season on Vancouver Island is pretty much wrapped up and it’s nearly time to put away the heavy duty rain gear and focus on better weather birding when one isn’t “required” to go out and count birds. This weekend I joined the crew out at Port Alberni for their annual Christmas [...]
December 10th, 2012 | By Dave Ingram | Published in Bird Watching, Birds
OK – I’m not a hardcore lister by any stretch of the imagination (I’ve finally just broken 200 on my restarted BC list) but sometimes unexpected birds are a good excuse for a road trip. I’ve been fortunate that the extremely rare citrine wagtail is a mere five minutes away from my house, and perhaps [...]
December 2nd, 2012 | By Dave Ingram | Published in Bird Watching, Birds
Update: March 24, 2013 Last confirmed sighting of the Citrine Wagtail on eBird was Thursday, March 21. However, since that time, access to the farm lane has been restricted due to active farming and the lane is gated. Update: March 6, 2013 Checked the original farm site on Wednesday, March 6 with Viktor Davare and had a [...]
November 20th, 2012 | By Dave Ingram | Published in Bird Watching, Birds
Update: March 24, 2013 Last confirmed sighting of the Citrine Wagtail on eBird was Thursday, March 21. However, since that time, access to the farm lane has been restricted due to active farming and the lane is gated. Update: March 6, 2013 Checked the original farm site on Wednesday, March 6 with Viktor Davare and had a [...]
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