Parks Blog

Tag: birding

  • Turtle eggs and salamander spawn: spring monitoring at Grundy Lake

    Today’s article comes from Emily Wright, Discovery Program Leader at Grundy Lake Provincial Park. Spring at Grundy Lake is a quiet time of year. The lake waters are cold from the melting snow and ice, birds are just starting to arrive from their long migrations, and visitors are few and far between. Park staff, however,…

  • Keeping up with the Canada Jay

    Today’s blog post comes from bird researchers Alex Sutton and Koley Freeman, PhD candidates at the University of Guelph. In the world of Canada Jays, winter means one thing: it’s breeding season! Canada Jays are common in Algonquin Provincial Park. Continuing a 55 year-old tradition, a dedicated team of researchers is monitoring breeding pairs. This…

  • December's digital download

    There’s so much to see in parks during winter! Take a frosty walk on a trail while watching the snow gently fall, listening to the call of birds like the Pine Siskin!

  • Confessions of a struggling birder

    Today’s blog comes from Carlin Thompson, a discovery leader at Sandbanks Provincial Park. My name is Carlin, and I’m a struggling birder. As an Ontario Parks Discovery leader, I am surrounded by colleagues with a passion for the natural world — which I share. Many share a specialty in identifying birds — which I do…

  • Autumn isn’t just coloured leaves and migration — bring on the murmurations!

    Today’s blog comes from Jessica Stillman, school outreach coordinator for Bronte Creek Provincial Park. With all the coloured leaves and migrating birds, autumn is all about big performances. But even before sharing these spectacular displays, autumn delights us with the sights and sounds of another performance: the fabulous fall show presented by European Starlings.

  • The Piping Plover power couple of Darlington

    Today’s blog comes from Piping Plover Biologist Monica Fromberger from Ontario Parks’ southeast zone.  Every year, Darlington Provincial Park runs a Piping Plover conservation program to help these special endangered shorebirds. This year, the park’s plover lovers have done it again! Lovebirds Blue and Miss Howard have successfully hatched, fledged, and raised all four of their chicks…

  • 5 reasons to visit Esker Lakes Provincial Park

    Esker Lakes Provincial Park surrounds a chain of sparkling lakes set in an ancient glacial landscape, carpeted in boreal forest. A quiet, family-oriented park, Esker Lakes sits just east of the historic mining town of Kirkland Lake in northeastern Ontario. Here are five reasons Esker Lakes will delight family campers and nature-lovers alike:

  • A mouse, a beast, and a ghost: who's using Pinery's ecopassage?

    In today’s post comes from Alistair MacKenzie, Discovery Supervisor at Pinery Provincial Park, shares one of his parks exciting new conservation technologies: ecopassages. I have a lot to thank my parents for, not the least of which is for introducing me to nature as a young child. When my family immigrated to Canada, we began…

  • The annual birding battle for the golden binoculars

    In today’s post, Learning & Education Specialist Rachelle Law recounts Team Ontario’s push to find as many birds as possible.  Every year, a team of expert birders from Ontario Parks prepare — binoculars in hand — to compete in a heated competition. The goal: spot and record as many bird species as they can over…

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