Great Birding Sites

Here are some bird sites that I recommend to you:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu
http://ebird.org/content/canada
http://www.hww.com
www.randomhouse.com/audubon
Hope these websites are helpful to you,
Birdman

Arizona Unidentified Birds

What is this?
What is this?
What is this?
Here is have found a parrot in Mexico, it was even tame enough to go in my hand.

Maybe it is an wild Amazon Parrot?

Every winter we go to Arizona, always finding new birds and other weird animals in the early morning. Here is the story of one of our trips:

It all began when our grandparents moved to Phoenix, Arizona so we decided to go there too. We signed out of school and we started to pack but it surprisingly didn't take very long. So we were ready to go and we were on the road. It took us 4 days and we made many stops to get souvenirs including a fancy wood-carved roadrunner.

By the time we were unpacked it was bedtime. So the next morning at 6 we went birding, but there wasn't any birds. But we continued walking until it was 8 and......There was birds here, there, over there, EVERYWHERE! IT WAS PORING WITH BIRDS! We didn't know which ones to identify first. So I just set my camera to rapidly taking pictures while I spinned around...Of course that wasn't exactly what happened I just took pictures of many birds, so beautiful I didn't know what they were?

We began putting birdseed out in our backyard and soon I found myself buying a 8kg bag of it. We had to refill 9 bird feeders daily. It was a lot of work but it was worth it. I finally got a field guide to Arizona Birds. And we saw quail, finches, hawks, wrens, thrushes, roadrunners, and lots lots more.

Thank you mom and dad for taking me here, IT WAS AN AWESOME TIME!!!!!!!!!!!

Baltimore Oriole

Baltimore Orioles have always excited me, the beutiful marking on their feathers or their interesting cup shaped nests. I have seen many orioles here in Kitchener and I found a oriole nest. But in Point Pelee there were orioles everywhere! I will tell about that story later. Anyway, here is some information about orioles you might want to know:

Baltimore Oriole
Icterus galbula
L 8.75" ws 11.5" wt 1.2 0z (33 g)
Shape like Bullock's, but averages slightly smaller.
Some very drab females are difficult to distinguish
from Bullock's.
Voice: Song a short series of rich, clear, whistled
notes pidoo tewdi tewidi yewdi tew tidew; variable in
pattern, with pauses between each phrase; often
gives simple two-note whistle hulee and varia-
tions. Call a dry, harsh, uneven rattle. Flight call
a husky, tinny, trumpeting veet.

Bye, Birdman

Very Close Pictures(Part 2)

Here I am going to tell you the full story of these very close up pictures:

It all began when we went out to buy birdseed. There was a variety of choices and we chose a mix seed bag. Then we went home and I made many types of feeders including water bottle feeders. I put the seed in them and they came right away. So I decided to tame them, I brought out all the required birding supplies and I was ready to go. I waited for hours standing with birdseed in my hand. Then finally a very brave chickadee finally came and took some seeds. Since then birds will come to my hand. Including nuthatches. But I couldn't have done it without cousin Ruth buying some birdfeeder parts. Here is a edited video of them on my hand.

Very Close Pictures

White-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Black-capped Chickadee

My Art

Here is a picture I drew.

White-breasted Nuthatch/Birding With Ruth

Here is a White-breasted Nuthatch feeding at our backyard feeder.

This weekend I went birding with my cousin Ruth. She picked me up at 9. We drove over to Linear Trail, which is 8kms long. We might have walked about 2 or 3 km of it but we still managed to identify 24 species of birds! Including a rare crossbreed between a Mallard and a Snow Goose. We also saw Cedar Waxwings, European Starlings, Northern Cardinals and lots more. It was very exciting and we were there for 2 and a half hours! After that we went to Ruth's house and had a snack, guess what we saw there........A Red-breasted Nuthatch!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats makes 25 species of birds. Wow the last time I saw that many was at Point Pelee! Anyway, after that we went to the swamp but we only saw Mallards and geese. So we decided to have lunch at Wendy's. Chicken, chicken I love chicken.......Hey, Samuel snap out of it. Oh fine , but here is a secret.................................................................CHICKEN!!! OK I'll stop being silly!
Anyway, I had a great time thank you cousin Ruth!!!!!
I forgot my camera though:-(

Four Wheelers

My brother and I ready to go four wheeling.
All set to go!

This weekend we went to Kitchener and my brother and I were busy playing our Nintendo DS's and our dad had left to get us a surprise. When he came back he asked us to look in the trailer......There was a four wheeler! We were amazed. Soon we found ourselves driving the four wheeler. But this soon went into a fight to who would go on it. Our dad solved the problem and bought another one. The next day my dad and I got all ready for the trip, at 10 Jesse woke up. He wanted to go so he had to ride with my dad. My mom took some pictures and we were off. We agreed that we would go on our birding trail. I had some difficulties but it was still fun!
Thank you dad for making this very fun trip possible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your the best!!!!