Category: Birds

Although we began Wednesday, July 1st, Day 34 of our trip and the 27th day in Newfoundland, with no plans, we had a very good day at a UNESCO World Heritage Site interpretive centre and then watching humpback whales from a vast beach. We had a peaceful night boondocking...

On Tuesday, June 23rd, Day 26 of our trip and the 19th day in Newfoundland, we returned to the puffin colony out on the point, had a look at the powerful and often tragic stories of seal hunting, then drove 10 km to Bonavista for a two-day stay. In...

On Monday, June 22nd, after my morning hike to Pissamare Falls, we drove to Elliston specifically see the puffin colony, overnighting at the Ellison Municipal Park. It was 162 km from our site at the Newman Sound Campground to the Elliston park, and there were plenty of particularly scenic...

On the second half of Sunday, June 21st, Cathy and I did a couple of short hikes near the park Visitor Centre, then went through the Visitor Centre to see the displays. Finally, late that evening, I went for a look at the Newman Sound Campground end of the...

I really got carried away with this post – it has 66 photos and 1,881 words, and took me two days to write, but it was a crazy day. I had taken my new “travel” laptop with the intention of writing briefer-than-usual posts each day, then just couldn’t do...

On March 22nd, a couple of hours after the sun rose, I posted the first photo below on Facebook with the comment “There’s a little Boreal owl asleep in my bird feeder! This is a first.” The owl has now spent many days with us and this afternoon (April...

This is blog post #27 from our tour of northern Europe. On Thursday, July 24th, we anchored off Lerwick, the main town on the Shetland archipelago, and tendered into town. We began by looking around the town, then went on an excellent bus tour from there to the southernmost...

I normally limit my visits with family to 3 days, but this time I went for 5, and it worked out very well. I spent a lot of time exploring the nearby Carburn Park and Bow River Trail, and walked almost 20 km there. I was amazed by how...

I said in my last post that the next one would be about riding the White Pass & Yukon Route train to Skagway, but I was wrong. The day before than (Saturday, May 16th) I went for a walk at the difficult-to-access southern part of the Whitehorse airport trail...

I always get a bit impatient this time of year – we’re having a lengthy spell of spectacular days, but the nights are still well below freezing (it’s -6°C/+21°F at the moment and I just lit the woodstove), so few plants are in bud yet. There are a few...