© Lora Denis
Hello, my name is Robert Ormston, but you can call me Bob. I live in Trenton, a town near Prince Edward County. I am 16 years old and in grade 11 at Bayside Secondary School. From a young age, I have been interested in birds. I enjoy watching them at feeders, observing them in the ...
It’s almost Halloween. Pumpkins abound and spooky decorations are showing-up everywhere. As a bat biologist, I enjoy seeing bats hanging from front yard trees and porch lights this time of year. But as you may have heard, all is not well with our bats. Populations in eastern North America are experiencing up to 95 percent ...
pectoral sandpiper © Peter Massas
One of the charms of birding is the amount of time one ends up spending at sewage lagoons. Peculiar, verging on toxic smells aside, sewage lagoons offer some of the best birding opportunities and luckily for us, southern Ontario boasts some fine sewage treatment plants! Part of the reason birds gravitate toward such manmade wetlands ...
Jenna and Kirstin, Petrel Point Nature Reserve © Noah Cole
This summer, my team and I met with landowners, cottagers and visitors on the Bruce to dispel myths about the maligned Massasauga rattlesnake. We didn’t expect people to fall in love with rattlers, but we hoped they would come to appreciate and help protect them. After all, rattlers are as much a part of the ...
When I think “bird-watching paradise,” Ontario isn’t exactly what comes to mind. I think more along the lines of Ecuador, Madagascar, Panama, Indonesia, South Africa or Texas. Perhaps I fantasize about those places because they’re so remote and I haven’t been to any of them. I wonder why we find it easier to dream of mythical ...
Laurel Creek Conservation Area © Carl Hiebert / Grand River Conservation Authority