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| Northern Saw-whet Owl Aegolius acadicus |
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| male House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus |
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| female House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus |
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| American Tree Sparrow Spizella arborea |
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| Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis |
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| Hairy Woodpecker Picoides villosus |
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| Eurasian Starling Sturnus vulgaris |
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| The tracks of a Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus |
Boisé Ste-Dorothée, February 9, 2022
Went for a circuit of Boisé Ste-Dorothée the other day with George and Ben. It was a balmy and lovely morning in the woods that ring the swamp. It felt very ‘Boreal’ out, with two Ruffed Grouse seen, and a Boreal Owl reported recently. We didn’t run into the latter, but a gang of irate Black-capped Chickadees alerted us to the presence of a Northern Saw-whet Owl in a dense pine. Earlier, we heard a few notes of a raspy chickadee call that had us thinking Boreal Chickadee, but it was probably just a Black-capped with a sore throat. We ended with 20 species in a few hours, in a patch of excellent owl habitat surrounded by the creeping tentacles of suburbia.
Went for a circuit of Boisé Ste-Dorothée the other day with George and Ben. It was a balmy and lovely morning in the woods that ring the swamp. It felt very ‘Boreal’ out, with two Ruffed Grouse seen, and a Boreal Owl reported recently. We didn’t run into the latter, but a gang of irate Black-capped Chickadees alerted us to the presence of a Northern Saw-whet Owl in a dense pine. Earlier, we heard a few notes of a raspy chickadee call that had us thinking Boreal Chickadee, but it was probably just a Black-capped with a sore throat. We ended with 20 species in a few hours, in a patch of excellent owl habitat surrounded by the creeping tentacles of suburbia.
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