Winter wrens are one of my favourites. So much attitude and voice packed into a tiny package. #birds

A peaceful morning at the pond to hopefully slow your heart rate a bit.

This image just feels like spring - Swainson's thrush. #birds

When I took this photo this morning, I thought it was a female blackpoll that I had been tracking (see second photo), but I'm pretty sure this is a different bird. Blackburnian maybe? Any thoughts? #birds

It’s been a long winter, but it’s finally warm enough to open up my favourite room in the house.

A fun little moment with a rather tolerant beaver this morning. I was surprised at how chill it was. #mammals🌿

Sometimes I'm really struck by reflections.

To quote the estimable @rosemarymosco.com "hgblurrblurbll" -Lesser Yellowlegs #Bird 🌿

The canopy was full of rose-breasted grosbeaks in Assiniboine Forest the other day, but they never gave me a clear shot. Still, they're so beautiful to listen to. #birds

An incredibly loud, but surprisingly relaxing evening at the pond. There are four different frogs calling, but you can really only hear three of them in this. The wood frogs get drowned out by everything else. Can you guess the three species? One only calls once about midway through. 🐸🌿

Got to spend a few special moments with this little brown bat flying over my head this evening. They’re so much less common than they used to be so it’s such a treat when I see one.

Watcher in the woods. This is one of a pair of ravens who are raising a clutch of four almost fully-grown babies. I think it was taking this moment to catch a breath. #birds 🌿

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you’ve seen live. Billy Joel Crowded House Blue Rodeo Pink Martini Fleetwood Mac Elton John The Lone Bellow Half Moon Run Roxette Rhiannon Giddens

I was just at a concert last night, so I figured it would be fun to do this. First: Billy Joel Furthest: I don’t travel much for concerts Favourite venue: Birds Hill Park Last: Days on Land- Saw them last night. Brutal: The Sheepdogs Happiest: The Lone Bellow Heaven: Hozier

Great night at the Times Changed High and Lonesome to see my friends including @joechurchill.bsky.social on base in Days On Land’s #Winnipeg debut. Awesome, high energy show and a room full of friendly, familiar faces.

ok one last tick-related PSA & then i must get on with my day. If you treat your pets with topical flea & tick preventives: they can be very harmful to aquatic life. There's a list of mitigations & alternatives at the end of this article. Oh, and those "EM" collars you may have seen are pure BS.

I've been making interpretive signage both on my own and with the help of my friends for 15 years. I recently updated my map of all of my finished projects, and it's really something to see them all laid out like this. #SciArt www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...

It's been pretty gloomy here, so here's a yellow warbler to brighten the day. I couldn't quite get a clear shot through the grasses. #birds

I'm really happy with how this photo worked out. The composition just came together. #Birds.

I'm really happy with how this photo worked out. The composition just came together. #Birds.

Here I come to save the day! 🎶 American redstarts are so dramatic :) #birds

I was very lucky to get a lot of photos of this bald eagle as it flew right by me. I had originally said it was a 4-year-old, but I think it's closer to 3.5 years old based on the colouration. I was quick tickled by this shot with its nictitating membrane fully closed. #birds

Golden hour on Grassy Narrows Marsh. It was a gorgeous evening for a walk.

Sound up for some duetting loons on a glassy marsh. Such a beautiful evening for a walk despite the chill. #birds

One of a whole series of shots taken of a 4th year bald eagle who gave me a flyby along the beach this afternoon. While the adult pattern is there, the body feathers and tail are mottled and the beak hasn't gone pure yellow. #birds 🌿

Not cool, Mother Nature, not cool.

It's cold, very windy and wet today, so I'm looking back a couple of days to more colourful moments. Here is a male yellow-rumped warbler and a palm warbler. My favourite harbingers of spring #birds 🌿

We had a bunch of rusty blackbirds hanging around earlier in the week. These guys nest throughout the boreal forest. They were hanging out in large, noisy flocks and it's hard to single out this guy's voice from the rest. #birds

Had a boisterous visitor today. This is Dexter. He's a rottweiler-Bernese mountain dog cross and he's a massive, bulldozer of cheerful energy. Totally brightened by day despite a few bruises.

I was blessed with a bunch of purple finches in the yard the other day. The males always stand out like ornaments in the trees. #birds

I love that yellow-rumped warblers are among the first birds to return in the spring. They bring such a welcome burst of colour after a long, winter. #birds 🌿

Onye is a great friend and incredible artist. You should check out her class 😊

One of the neighbours joined me for my coffee break. Don't worry, the cup of chai was empty at this point. She's annoyed I've put the feeders away in deference to the bears. I've never hand fed the squirrels and was surprised by her brazenness. #mammals

Confirmation that the bears in the neighbourhood are awake now. This is just a little guy, hopefully still with its mom. There’s very little snow left so there were no other tracks to confirm one way or the other. #mammals 🌿

I found a male pileated woodpecker working on this year's nest. It's a lot of work. This is from three days ago and when I checked this morning, he was still working on it. #birds

I'm looking for a couple people who would consider themselves advanced birders and who know Manitoba/Saskatchewan birds who would be willing to meet me on Zoom to test-run a quiz I've built for a guiding workshop. #birds

It' #ManitobaDay! My home province is often overlooked by the rest of Canada as flat and not as interesting as the mountain or coastal provinces. However, it's a vast land full of amazing natural diversity that I'm lucky to have the chance to explore it thoroughly. #Manitoba #Canada

Ruby-crowned kinglet vying for cutest bird in the forest. #birds

It' #ManitobaDay! My home province is often overlooked by the rest of Canada as flat and not as interesting as the mountain or coastal provinces. However, it's a vast land full of amazing natural diversity that I'm lucky to have the chance to explore it thoroughly. #Manitoba #Canada

Is anyone else having trouble getting species maps to display on the #eBird website? I've tried two different browsers to no avail. #birds

Snowshoe hare wishing along with me that it would actually feel like spring after a long winter. #mammals 🌿

I don’t think I’ve ever been quite so happy to hear the constant ‘meep meep meep’ of red breasted nuthatches filling the air this morning. We went the entire winter without them. It was very weird and I’m glad to have them back. #birds

You rarely get to see the rainbow of colours in a Bufflehead's face, but I caught this one in just the right light. #birds 🌿

The bluesky account cwebbonline. com is routinely stealing other people’s work without credit & has developed a big following. Content farming is lousy & opens the door to all kinds of misinfo. Please keep an eye on who you follow and repost to make sure they’re legit and worth your time

Trumpeter swan at sunset. When I was a kid, there were no swans in the marsh on Hecla Island. Now, I regularly see 3-4 pairs every year. It's nice to see one success story. #birds 🌿

American tree sparrow in the warm light of a spring evening. They will be heading further north soon. #birds 🌿

This doesn't happen every year, but every now and then, we get a strong wind just as the ice is breaking up on Lake Winnipeg and the ice piles up. It's really hard to show the scale of this pileup. The best I can do is say compare it to the ducks. It's house-sized.

The most complex project I've done in a few years. Each bird was painted separately then worked into the larger illustration. I'm really happy with how it turned out and I'm looking forward to seeing it printed and installed. #SciArt #birds

I am over the moon. I stalked this ruffed grouse for over half an hour, only moving when he drummed so that I could slip close enough through the tangle to get a relatively clear shot. This was filmed with my Z8 and 180-600 lens, hand-held while in a full squat over wet ground. #GlobalBigDay #birds