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  1. Rhonda

    Zen Birding

    I love to be in that "bubble of birdness"
  2. Rhonda

    The World's Iconic Birds - Your most wanted.

    hey Jos...couldn't miss your Polar Bear bird there. I live in the Polar Bear Capital of the World, Churchill, Manitoba. Come on up and see us. Rhonda
  3. Rhonda

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Red Knot, finally! I know that people are used to seeing them in large numbers but I was happy with my one bird after 5 years in Churchill. Great year for birds here the whole cast showed up. Rhonda
  4. Rhonda

    Red Knots in more trouble

    I saw my first red Knot last night at 830 pm in Churchill Manitoba. I've waited at least 5 years to see one and he was well worth the wait. He was with about 200 Ruddy Turnstones at the Port of Churchill. My friend went down this morning and she could only find one Ruddy Turnstone and she had to...
  5. Rhonda

    White yes white Starling ...

    That's funny, we were looking at a flock of starlings in Elliot Lake Ontario and we noticed one had a completely white tail, maybe they were related. Rhonda
  6. Rhonda

    Have you ever named birds?

    My partner and I end up naming things and they are never nice. Savanna Sparrow every year becomes Savanna Bi_ch, we must try to ID it 1000 times and every time we try to turn it into something else it's still Savanna. The other one was a Boreal Chickadee we searched for 5 years and when we found...
  7. Rhonda

    Most Common First Bird of 2007?

    Hoary Redpoll. There were no doubt some Ravens and House Sparrows but I only count them if I'm really desperate. Rhonda
  8. Rhonda

    What bird do you find annoying?

    Wouldn't mind seeing a ruddy duck but grey rats with bushy tails hate hate hate them. I was a gardener in Vancouver and they dug up all my plants but still didn't get the peanut buried. I'm lucky though churchill is so far north nothing survives no rats, no fleas, no mice but starlings and house...
  9. Rhonda

    What bird do you find annoying?

    Thank you thank you please find a way to take all of the house sparrows and all of the starlings back to where they came from. Thinking of the damage that these two species cause to native species in North America gets my blood pressure up. Rhonda
  10. Rhonda

    Great Blue Heron

    In Churchill too We had a Great Blue Heron as of Sunday August 26 at the Port of Churchill. Talk about a ways away from where you'd expect him. Add to him a Little Blue Heron in the spring, Double-Crested Cormorant in spring and a nesting pair of Northern Wheatears at Fort Prince of Wales. Yet...
  11. Rhonda

    What's the Bravest Bird???

    Arctic Tern he'll take on anything to protect it's nest. Saw one the other night chasing an osprey and it won.
  12. Rhonda

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    Polar Bear because as I watch birds I must watch for the big white fluffy killers.
  13. Rhonda

    North American Shorebird ID reference?

    I just bought my first shorebird book and it is The Shorebird Guide absolutley the best book ever purchased. Pictures of flocks of birds so that you can see and id them with the birds they are actually found with, quizzes to help hone your skills, detailed descriptions of behaviour and each...
  14. Rhonda

    Spill the beans on that birder who really got up your nose!!!

    I didn't know they were like that because they were birders, I just assumed they weren't nice people. I'm so pushy, I walk up asking a million questions and just figure that everyone is a better birder than myself. Maybe that's why most are nice, I make them feel superior and clever. Rhonda
  15. Rhonda

    autumn migration thread

    It sounds just like here. Large flocks of European Starlings. the snow geese are back from above the tree line, the Canada's are in the air, huge flocks of Whimbrels left over the past week and I can hear other migrators flying by at night, I haven't seen an Arctic Tern for two days, I am going...
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    autumn migration thread

    I am at 59 degrees latitude in Churchill Manitoba I live in a sub-arctic climate at the edge of the Boreal forest. Winter temperature a balmy -45 C But that's not all of Canada, just the great white north so feel free to join us we've got lots of room and we're really nice. Rhonda
  17. Rhonda

    Things you see when out birding

    Lots other than birds A really big dog that turned out to be a Northern Wolf, Beaver, Pine Martin, Arctic and Snowshoe Hare, Arctic and Red Foxes (kits in the spring), and of course and more so this year the ever present Polar Bear. We had people tell us they saw a brown Polar Bear this spring...
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    autumn migration thread

    Slow down Autumn used to be my favorite time of year, now where I live it just means we are closer to winter. For every bird that leaves to go back down south it leaves one less for me. Soon I will be left with my friends the Ravens, I'm lucky they're so entertaining. So here in the soon to be...
  19. Rhonda

    Northern Wheatear (nesting)

    You can only get to the Prince of Wales Fort by boat. I don't have a boat, but I have a freind that does whale watching tours and he was protesting a Parks Canada decision blah blah blah, anyway the only reason I made the trip is I'd heard of a pair of Northern Wheatears were nesting in the...
  20. Rhonda

    not sure on this bird

    I finally got one right when I looked I said not American Bittern but had no idea who it might be, so half right is good for me Rhonda
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    Bird I.D. please...Edmonton Alberta..Canada

    Question Answered Thanks Dave you answered a question I hadn't even asked yet. So when I see a snipe in Churchill, Mb it is a Wilson's? I had been calling him common but getting hints that things had changed and ebird didn't answer my querie. Can you tell me when that split happened? Rhonda
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    Birds you thought you saw that turned out not to be real.

    2 owls one evening My friend Eleanor and I were out one evening, we went around the Port of Churchill and sitting on the road was a Short-eared Owl, we got a really good look at him before he took off. We were quite pleased and excited, then we looked at the Whale-watching boat that was dry...
  23. Rhonda

    Early Shore Birds

    A question first, is the bird on the return trip south? I am in Churchill Mb. and everything was early. We saw our first Least Sandpiper on the northern migration at the beginning of May and that is a full month early. We don't even look for phalaropes until mid-June and they were here at the...
  24. Rhonda

    hello from Canada

    Hello from Churchill, you're close come on up. Rhonda
  25. Rhonda

    Who do you go birding with?

    I go with my friend Eleanor, she was a friend who became a birder and now we're even better friends. I am the more skilled but she is catching up quickly. I prefer to go with her but I do like to meet more experienced people along the way. Rhonda
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