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September 2, 2019Myriam (Myr's Bytes)

Yellow warbler nest: wee ones!

In the summer of 2018, I had the good fortune of watching a female Yellow Warbler build a nest, incubate her eggs and feed her nestlings. I’ve posted photos of her nest-building and nest-sitting, and now it’s time for photos of her itty-bitty hatchlings! After June 30th, I visited the nest two more times without […]

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March 12, 2019Myriam (Myr's Bytes)

Coyote in the snow

I live a 10 minute walk from the north end of Mill Creek Ravine Park, so when I need some urban forest trails, that is where I usually go. Occasionally, I see a lone coyote and sometimes I see a pair. Coyotes here are not fond of human gazes. When they see me, and I […]

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February 23, 2019Myriam (Myr's Bytes)

A Yellow Warbler Nest: Part 2

When I returned to the yellow warbler nest two days later, on June 25th, it was empty.   But the next day, Mrs. Yellow was sitting on her nest! I found a new “viewing tunnel” to take this photo, from an intersecting trail.   When I visited on June 28th, Mrs. Yellow was doing some […]

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February 20, 2019Myriam (Myr's Bytes)

Warmer weather and a Red-breasted Nuthatch

  Yay! The two week super chill has left the city! I celebrated by going for a walk through the forest in a balmy -6 ℃.   Though I visit the north end of Mill Creek Ravine Park regularly and often hear nuthatches (Red-breasted or White-breasted… I can’t always differentiate their calls), I don’t usually […]

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January 29, 2019Myriam (Myr's Bytes)

A Yellow Warbler Nest: Part 1

June 23 2018, 10:38 AM. A trail through a ribbon of urban forest on the south of shore of the North Saskatchewan River, in the Edmonton River Valley. I spotted some movement in the forest shrubs. A female Yellow Warbler. She was building a nest! She moved about in the nest for a while, then […]

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December 18, 2018January 4, 2019Myriam (Myr's Bytes)

Last December…

Today was my final exam for principles of ecology. The snowshoe hare came up in a few of the exam questions, so I thought this would be a good day to publish a post I started earlier this year and finished a few weeks ago. A little after sunset, on December 9th 2017, the white […]

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November 18, 2018January 29, 2019Myriam (Myr's Bytes)

The Coopers: Part 3

On July 15th, 2017, around 3 PM, I walked along the trail leading to the Cooper’s Hawk nest. The first fledgling I saw was the youngest looking. Another fledgling, of seemingly intermediate maturity (less remaining white down than one sibling but more than the other), was calling its parents repeatedly, because it was hungry, or […]

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November 11, 2018November 11, 2018Myriam (Myr's Bytes)

They’re back!

According to eBird data, Common Redpolls are not seen in the Edmonton area between June and September, except for the sighting of a single bird on July 5th, 2014. Their breeding grounds are north of Alberta, in Alaska, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. The Atlas of Breeding Birds of Alberta (Semenchuk 1992) does […]

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October 26, 2018Myriam (Myr's Bytes)

Fall feathers

Winter started early in Edmonton this year. We had a few snow days in mid-September and a few more in early October. The last two weeks though, have been relatively warm, with sunny afternoons in the low to mid-10s (Celcius). Early afternoons aren’t the birdiest in the Mill Creek Ravine woods, but I usually bring […]

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October 22, 2018Myriam (Myr's Bytes)

Synchronized preening

Two male Mallards on North Saskatchewan River. October 14, 2018. Henrietta Muir Edwards Park, Edmonton, Alberta.

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October 5, 2018October 5, 2018Myriam (Myr's Bytes)

Darting across the path

It was warmish and sunny in Edmonton this afternoon, so I walked home through Queen Elizabeth Park. While I was taking photos of some juncos rummaging through leaf litter and beaking off chunks of red osier berries, a snowshoe hare darted across the path. Three times in a minute! I missed the leftward bounds, but […]

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December 11, 2017January 29, 2019Myriam (Myr's Bytes)

The Coopers: Part 2

I was pretty excited about seeing white fluff in the nest on June 27th, so I visited again two days later with hopes of glimpsing wee beaks and eyes. My photo adventure started at 12:41 PM and my first photo was not promising. White fluff??? I watched for two minutes, but no wee hawks appeared. […]

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