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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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February 8, 2019Myriam (Myr's Bytes)

Chick-a-dee-dee-dee

  Happy Draw-a-Bird-Day!!! I photographed this Black-capped Chickadee on December 8th, 2018, in Mill Creek Ravine Park. My first attempt at drawing this little fella looked pretty good up close, but when I took a step back, he kind of looked off balance, like he was going to fall backwards off his perch. Poop! Sigh. […]

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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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January 11, 2019January 11, 2019Myriam (Myr's Bytes)

Winter bird

Flying in a bit late for Draw-a-Bird-Day, this immature or female Pine Grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator) was eating tiny crabapples in Mill Creek Ravine Park, in late November 2017. Pine Grosbeaks bite through the skin of crabapples, eat the seeds and discard the pulp. They do the same with mountain ash berries. Realistically, the feathers of […]

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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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November 7, 2018Myriam (Myr's Bytes)

DABD November 2018

Happy Draw-A-Bird-Day!!! Last fall I saw four species of warblers migrate through the Strathcona Rail Community Garden – Palm (drawing), Tennessee, Orange-crowned and Yellow-rumped. Fall warblers also refuel in the forests along the creek and river near my home, but the garden is the easiest place to photograph the birds. There are no tall trees […]

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November 2, 2018November 7, 2018Myriam (Myr's Bytes)

A migrating palm warbler

I found the ink outline of this bird while flipping through my sketchbook this afternoon and I decided that this was a good day to fill-in-the-blanks. This bird and its migration buddy were my first ever Palm Warbler sightings. Two days later, I saw two more Palm Warblers in Mill Creek Ravine Park. This fall, […]

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