Introducing Serenade and Chalumay
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 Posted in Family, Our House | No Comments »We have a couple of new residents in the insane asylum. We've adopted Serenade and Chalumay. They needed a new home, since their family moved away. [gallery link="file" columns="2" orderby="ID"] So far they fit in well and seem fairly mild mannered. Mind ...
Sounds of Ruthven 2011.4.25
Monday, April 25th, 2011 Posted in birding, creation, Sound recordings | No Comments »As I mentioned earlier, I did some more sound recording at Ruthven Park this morning. Here are a few of the sounds I heard in the Park. The stream that runs through the slough forest with tree swallows and a field ...
Ruthven 2011.4.25
Monday, April 25th, 2011 Posted in birding, creation, Family | 1 Comment »We spent the morning helping out with bird banding at Ruthven Park. It was very quiet. There weren't a lot of birds around, so the natives got restless and started mud fights. Joy! Anyway, Caleb did take a few pictures. Here ...
Ruthven 04.15.2011
Sunday, April 17th, 2011 Posted in birding, creation | No Comments »We spent a couple of hours at Ruthven on Friday. The sun was shining, but the wind was bitterly cold. It was too windy to do any more recording, but we did some banding and photography. [gallery link="file" columns="2" orderby="ID"] The killdeer ...
Strange Birds
Sunday, April 17th, 2011 Posted in birding, creation | No Comments »Fairly often you'll see a bird with white patches of feathers. This is called leucism. More rarely you'll find an all white bird like this house sparrow, photographed recently in Toronto by a fellow birder. Strange bird indeed! [gallery link="file" columns="2" ...
More Sounds From Ruthven
Monday, April 11th, 2011 Posted in birding, creation | No Comments »Here are a couple more of the sounds you'll hear regularly this time of year along the banks of the Grand River at Ruthven. Canada Geese warning calls Chorus Frog Mating Call Enjoy! Peter Scholtens
Spring Sights and Sounds at Ruthven
Saturday, April 9th, 2011 Posted in birding, creation | 3 Comments »We spent another beautiful morning at Ruthven Park. We enjoyed banding beautiful birds like this tree swallow. [gallery link="file" columns="2" orderby="ID"] Tree swallows are rarely banded at Ruthven. They usually fly above the nets, but for some reason this one flew low ...
Spring Salamanders
Monday, April 4th, 2011 Posted in creation, Family, Homeschooling | 1 Comment »A local naturalist was gracious enough to take us for a walk this evening to see some of the local salamanders in the Dundas Valley. [gallery link="file" columns="2" orderby="ID"] The black salamander with yellow spots is a yellow-spotted salamander. They belong to ...