Calgary Area
It's Long Overdue
51.0447° N, 114.0719° W
Bird nerds notes
This post is dated September 1st but it covers July - December. So what happened? Well it was an extremely hot summer filled with forest fires and smoke. We also got involed in some activism and have been advocating to stop all coal exploration in the eastern slopes of Alberta. As well we've been riding bikes and avoiding screens so it took a while to pull photos from the camera. Anyways, despite all the distractions we had some really good outings and even saw a new lifer!
First sightings (lifers) 1x
- Buff breasted sandpiper
- Cordilleran flycatcher
More adventures
They used to be a fairly common sighting but American Dippers have been much rarer since the 2013 flood
On a camping trip we had a flock of pileated woodpeckers fly through in the early morning hours