Snow Bunting on Akins

 January 6, 2025

We went looking for Snowy Owls, but the unethical photographers had chased them all off the day before. We managed to get fairly close to these Snow Buntings in a tree along Akins.

ONDB CBC

 January 4, 2025

Dunrobin/Breckenridge Circle. This was a new area for us.  Best bird was a Cooper's Hawk (no photo possible). The Coyote was another good find.  It was a cold -10 day with light snow at times. Photography was difficult, and at first the windows were frozen, which did not help. A good day nonetheless.

To prevent overlap and driving outside the circle, we did 6 separate checklists, then put them into a trip trip report. https://ebird.org/tripreport/315968

After the fact, we made a composite of the 6 eBird maps into one in Photoshop.  It was a pain.

Barrow's Goldeneye at Adawe Bridge

 December 22, 2024

There were lots of Commons below the bridge, but we finally found the Barrow's upstream.  It was vey cold on the bridge today.

Red-bellied Woodpecker at Jack Pine

 December 21,2024

On our second try, Craig spotted the woodpecker in the distance, then it came in.  We also had a brief view of a Fisher in behind the trees.

Snowy Owls

 December 16, 2024

We had a female/juvenile on Brownlee, then a male on Eagleson.  Hope they stick around.

ONOH CBC

 December 15, 2024

Once again, Anita accompanied us on this count.  And Nancy joined us for Frank Ryan. All four routes we did involved hiking, so we were bushed at the end of the day.

Trip Report    https://ebird.org/tripreport/303224