Migration doesn't wait for fall. Sandpipers and plovers that nested on Arctic tundra are streaming south right now, pausing on muddy lake edges east of the city. The adults came through in July. This month it's mostly juveniles, making the trip for the first time and navigating entirely on their own. Some are bound for South America.
The sun is about to go down before 8pm for the first time since spring, and it won't set that...
Southern Alberta's summer hawk is starting to flock up. Before leaving, Swainson's hawks switch...
Small greenish birds are working through the willows and the garden shrubs right now, flicking...
The first snow of the year usually shows up while the trees still have most of their leaves...
The big hawk on the fence post is not the one that sat there all summer. The summer hawks have...
Hares are swapping their brown summer coats for white ones, and for a few weeks they are a...