Friday, January 9, 2015

Refocussing on "Our" Birds


The New Year provides the opportunity to make a small change in focus of this blog.

When we started out it seemed like a good idea to provide a little info on birds (and other wildlife) we have seen or heard about in the Port Rowan/Long point area.  From time to time, we’d slip a little reference in to Wood B & B.  Like this http://www.bbcanada.com/13914.html

Earlier this week, we read that a hunting season for Snow Geese and Ross’s Geese was going to start in Alberta.


Apparently, hunters will be able to bag up to fifty a day.  (We aren’t hunters here so forgive us if “bag” is not the right word.)

It seems that these birds are in such abundance now that they are destroying their own habitat.  We have always understood that one of the main concerns for birds and other wildlife is the destruction of habitat.   We are more accustomed to us (humankind) being the offender when it comes to habitat destruction.

But, let’s get back to the idea of a small focus change for this blog. These birds are “our birds” as they represent two of the nearly 400 species counted at Long Point/Port Rowan over the years. For that reason, it seems appropriate to keep track of how species like these are doing when they’re not “visiting” us.  Let’s see how it goes.

Last fall Canadian Geographic had a story on this subject.  You can read it here.  http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/oct13/ross_geese_nunavut.asp

Time to check the feeders.  It’s cold down here.

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