March 1, 2026
Before leaving the house, we had a Pileated Woodpecker and the suet feeder and House Finches & Northern Cardinals at our seed feeders.
After seeing Al C's post of the hen Northern Pintail at Iber pond, we decided to investigate. We parked at Cinnabar Way and hiked down to the pond, after negotiating the snowbank.
We were surprised to find no open water at all and no ducks, although there were many tracks of them on the ice. Many Mallards were flying back and forth overhead.
We met a dog walking lady who told us an owl was being seen in the adjacent woods, so we checked it out, but could not locate it.
We drove up Huntmar to the Canadian Tire Centre so see if Common Ravens were nesting this year. We looked at the old nests on both sides of the arena, but they were all unoccupied. We were on the point of leaving when Bill saw a raven fly in with nesting material. He watched it closely and saw it disappear behind the large CTC symbol. The nest was in a new place up higher behind the sign almost totally out of sight. Two of them came out a flew off while we were there.
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