Kingston and Area Bird Sightings

Kingston Area Birds April 05, 2025 – April 11, 2025Kingston Field Naturalists (KFN) maintain records in a 50km radius ofMacDonald Park, Kingston. Birders using eBird are encouraged to share theirsightings with ‘Kingston FN’. Alternatively, please email  records directlyto me – contact details below. Please…

Ontario Rare Bird Report

Ontario Rare Bird Report for the week of April 4, 2025 This weekly report provides information about bird sightings that aresignificant due to the species, the location and/or time of year of thesighting.  Within these weekly reports, as much detail will be provided aspossible regarding…

The Birdhouse Nature Store

THE BIRDHOUSE NATURE STORE home of the famous “Right Stuff” bird feed 82 Main Street, Brighton 613-475-9510 BIRDFEEDING HAS BECOME BIG BUSINESS – MAKE SURE YOU FEED “THE RIGHT STUFF” AND NOT THE WRONG STUFF! In Birdfeeding Workshops that I conducted back in the…

Bird Friendly Garden Plants

Poster courtesy of Cornell Lab of Ornithology

What Birds Can We Expect to See in April?

We always say that winter will continue, until it decides that it is finished. Certainly, that can be true as occasional flurries, cold temperatures and bitter winds persist right though until almost the end of March, and even a bit into April. Some migrants…

Quinte Field Naturalists Annual Dinner

Greetings to all: Quinte Field Naturalists is pleased to announce its Annual Fundraising Dinner on Wednesday, May 14th We invite you to enjoy a delicious meal, hear a wonderful speaker, and support QFN’s efforts to conserve and protect nature in your neighbourhood and beyond….

Prince Edward County Bird List

Prince Edward County Checklist of Birds(November, 2024) Because of its location in eastern Lake Ontario, Prince Edward County is a natural catch-all for migrating birds during both spring and fall. The points of land along the southern shore especially, provide excellent birding opportunities during…

Birding Abandoned Fields

No doubt you have noticed as you have been driving the back roads this past month, birds flitting around in grassy meadows and darting from bush to bush. This month we check out the “little brown jobs,” the sparrows. They are passing through right…

Roadside Ponds, Wetlands, and Other Nooks and Crannies

The idea for this month`s places to bird came from an experience at a little insignificant pond south of Milford about 14 years ago. It is a combination of two small ponds – farm ponds they appear to be, likely spring fed as there…

“Niger” is the Seed. “Nyjer” Is Someone’s Idiotic Attempt at Political Correctness!

Even in John V. Dennis’  “Complete Guide To Birdfeeding,” (1975), it is referred to as “thistle seed,” but the author is quick to point out that the seed is in reality niger seed (Guizotia abyssinica), a seed of the niger plant native to Ethiopia. …