It's Coming! (1 Viewer)

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Tammie

Well-known member

• Sep 28, 2003

• #1

Hi Forum!

I officially saw the first snowflakes of the season this morning so that can only mean one thing.... the pine grosbeaks will be returning any time now!
It's only +1°C right now after raining for a week straight so thing are just soaked and soggy out there. The birds are trying to keep dry but I don't think most of them are succeeding.
Can't wait for that beautiful splash of red!!

 

dennis

Have binoculars. Will travel.

• Sep 28, 2003

• #2

Tammie, you're killing me! I need Pine Grosbeak(as well as Evening) for my life list. I need to trek up there someday. Oh yeah....Boreal Chickadee and Spruce Grouse also.

dennis

 

pauco

Старлин&

• Sep 28, 2003

• #3

Tammie, your welcome to the snow, but I really would love to see
the grosbeaks. lucky person!!
regards bert.

 

Geoff Brown

Well-known member

• Sep 28, 2003

• #4

Tammie - Curious! Just how far north in Ontario are you to see snow now?
Give me something so that I can pin your whereabouts down on my National Geographic Map of Canada's Far North.

 

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Tammie

Well-known member

• Sep 28, 2003

• #5

Dennis, I spotted the Boreal Chickadee for the first time about a year and a half ago. Last winter while snowmobiling, we stopped to take pictures of the whiskey jacks we saw when a flock of these little chickadees showed up. Unfortunately, they never sat still enough for a photo! They sure are pretty though and sound just a little different from a black cap.
Bert, you should see my husband .... talk about snow. He's already in the garage polishing is snowmachine!
Geoff, you can pin my area on the lower right side of Lake Nipigon, east of Thunder Bay, in the Geraldton, Hornepayne, Kapuskasing region. That help?
Actually, the snow isn't early at all but a week late. We normally have our first flurries of the season around Sept. 21st. Thankfully, it won't be staying until at least the end of October though!!

 

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Tammie

Well-known member

• Sep 28, 2003

• #6

Oh, and Dennis? We have spruce grouse here all year round. It's actully hunting season for them right now but I don't care for them. They're too strong tasting! Sure would like to get a good picture of one though.

 

dennis

Have binoculars. Will travel.

• Sep 28, 2003

• #7

Like I said.......you're killing me!

 

Geoff Brown

Well-known member

• Sep 28, 2003

• #8

Tammie,

Thanks now I can see where you mean. your'e not quite in the wilderness. I know that distances in Canada are vast and we Brits easily underestimate them. When I was over there about twenty years ago it took all day to drive from Windsor in the South of Ontario up to Niagara falls.
On my small road map it seemed such a small distance and I would do it in no time at all. How wrong could I have been!

 

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Tammie

Well-known member

• Sep 28, 2003

• #9

Geoff, Ontario is a massive province. My mother is about to move to a nursing home in Ottawa. When I go to visit her in November, it's going to be at least a 15 hour drive... one way!!!

Can't figure out for the life of me why it would take all day from Windsor to Niagara Falls, though!! Now, they're almost next to each other!

 

Michael Frankis

conehead

• Sep 28, 2003

• #10

Tammie said:

you can pin my area on the lower right side of Lake Nipigon, east of Thunder Bay, in the Geraldton, Hornepayne, Kapuskasing region

Click to expand...

Quite a long way south then!

Michael (55°N latitude :t

 

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Beverlybaynes

Mod Squad

• Sep 29, 2003

• #11

No matter where you are, Tammie, snow in September is TOO EARLY!!!!

The earliest snow I can remember in several decades here is October 6, when we got a surprise storm of 4 inches, which melted overnight.

October 10 is about the average frost date -- so I don't even want to think about SNOW!!

 

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Tammie

Well-known member

• Sep 29, 2003

• #12

Oddly enough, this seems to be one of the few areas around here that haven't had a killing frost yet! Most of my flowers are still blooming beautifully and the lawn is still green and lush and almost needing to be cut. It's really strange. All this, and then we end up with the first snowfall! Go figure! :h?:
It doesn't bother me, really. By this time, after such a busy summer, I'm ready for the seasons to change. Winter can be such fun here with the snowmachines! Hey, you gotta have something to look forward to!

 

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Dave B Smith

Well-known member

• Sep 29, 2003

• #13

Snow? What's snow?

We had a rainy overcast day today and at least it brought the temperature down from the high nineties we've been having. But I might try to brave the snow to see some of those birds you're talking about!

 

Tannin

Common; sedentary.

• Sep 29, 2003

• #14

gahh .... Snow in September is too late. It should only snow in July and August. Check your bathwater - it's probably going round the wrong way.

 

Geoff Brown

Well-known member

• Sep 29, 2003

• #15

Tammie,

Well I was sight - seeing as it was a vacation but even so the distance was much further than I realised. After a short stay in Niagara Falls took a coach into Toronto and marvelled at the skyscrapers, never having seen them for real before so soon had a crick in my neck. Of course also had to go up the CN tower and do all the other touristy things, before the flight back home. It was a great holiday in a wonderful country.