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Hi Naturalists It has been a while since I put fingers to keys and thought that as surveys are about to start that I would enlighten you on what this birding duffer has seen this late summer. The shorebirds have been the best for many years, but numbers are still low for what was once…

The top cat was back this week and this old moggie was not going to allow the antics of last week, so i rounded up the troops in the car park and told them in no uncertain terms the fun was over and that the 6 counters were to follow my instructions to the fullest,…

            Our first count of the new year was a little foggy but full of good birds and plenty of them with high numbers of Trumpeter Swans and good numbers of birds of prey. 8 people in two cars left the dog park with a new addition today as we…

There are several things that have become apparent from the first few weeks of our counts, the swans are late coming, the eagles are early returning and the counters can do very well without me, well maybe. The swans left their breeding grounds on time and departed their northern rest spots, but between there and…

We broke the ice so to speak with our first count of the season and the coldest morning of the fall. In total there were 9 people that took part, included in these was a visitor Margaret from Alberta who i hope enjoyed her day out with the counters. We missed our good friends Deb…

Hi All Seven eager counters turned up on this lovely sunny day and things couldn’t be better, two cars left the dog park and it was not long before we were counting Geese on the school playing fields on Beverly, another group of geese caused a bit of a discussion at the golf driving range…