Mr. Lahey Goes Birding

Hi
See link for article on Challenge:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/ArtsLife/1122242.html

Also came across a raven's nest in Point Pleasant Park--in the white pines just at the bend in the road at the bottom of the hill. You can hear the raucous young.

Saw a pair of terns fishing in the entrance to the Harbour. God, they're elegant birds.

Finally, saw a bright orange Baltimore Oriole this weekend. The birds are back.
Mark

State of the birds. (video)

Check out this inspiring and beautiful video on "the state of the birds" in the USA... http://www.stateofthebirds.org/

More birding on Facebook...

Great birding site on Facebook http://tr.im/birds Have a look.

John Allen floating down the Colorado.

"I am just back from a great trip to Arizona and a rafting trip down the Colorado River with some friends, including an experienced birder. Some of the species seen were snowy egrets, great blue herons, mallard, bufflehead, goldeneye and teal ducks, violet green swallows, yellow warblers, a peregrine falcon, and California condors (really really big). It was a fantastic trip and made all the more interesting by my new found pastime (though since I did my best work sitting on a raft with a beer in hand, I think it was still technically “bird watching” as opposed to birding). "

Nancy Vanstone, new neighbors

Here is a picture of the blue jay nest that sits safely on Nancy's back deck; you'll soon have baby b-jays to enjoy... As for the Challenge list Nancy wrote, "This morning I did get the white throated sparrow... a raven... if only a falcon would swoop down over my deck this afternoon!"

Thanks Nancy, good luck with your new neighbors and with the rest of the Challenge.

Sandy Greenburg of Razzmatazz...

"...saw a common loon ... My backyard has yielded lots of American goldfinches and two white throated sparrows."

Lindsay Jones article in the Weekly News

http://www.halifaxnewsnet.ca/index.cfm?sid=249074&sc=608