🐣CRITTERS🦉

  2025

• 🦉 Barred Owls First barred owl, March 16th.
• 🐻 Bear Watch Two June 23/24
• 🐈 Bobcat: Nov. 2023, June 6th driveway, Aug. 2.
• 🦅 Broad-winged Hawk Aug. 3rd. Not seen Aug. 11.
• 🐈 Cat Prey
• 🐈 Cat Visitor – May 10, May 30
• 🐣 Cedar waxwings nesting in the pine tree.
• 🐸 Chorus Frog Surveys 
• 🐇 Cottontail rabbit showed up frequently in winter, 2025.
• 🐕 Coyote - hurt leg April – July
• 🦊 Fox visits
• 🐀 Fred Groundhog: First sighting, March 21st. 🦊 Last sighting: Aug. 15.📹
• 🐣 HOUSE WREN singing - June 14
• 🐀 Muskrat - evidence April 13, baby June 20 in pond.
• 🐦   First hummingbird May 4th
• 🐣 PHOEBE – April 26th first songs.  Five eggs May 12th. Hatched May 27th.
•     Porcupine 
• 🐣 Red-eyed vireo in pine tree. June 15, hatched June 26
• 🐿️ Squirrel release – May 13th, #75! No sign May 27th.
• 🕷 TICKS first one May 28.

2024

• 🦉  Barred Owls on the owl tree.
• 🐻  Bear Watch
• 😼  Cat visitors – currently a Harlequin Tabby.
•       FISHER – all winter!
•       Fred Groundhog - showed up March 30th
• 🐸  Moving the frogs
•       Muskrat – under the dock, April 12
• 🐣  PHOEBE - May 7th – five eggs - Fledges June 8.
• 🐣  ROBINS – first sighting May 4th
• 🐦  Wood ducks – eggs April 28 (- 5 days?) 
• 🕷  TICKS – first one May 5th

2023

These are the critters we find out and about! 

• 🦉Barred Owls are singing from time-to-time.
• 🐻 BEAR WATCH – Meantime: the bear is around!
•      Bobcat Nov. 2023
• FISHER – I thought I saw one in the backyard in May.
• 🐣HOUSE WREN 
• 😼PEPPER cat – Visiting Cat
• 🐣PHOEBE – two nests, shed and deck. 
• 🐣ROBINS under the top deck.
• 🕷TICKS
• 🐦Wood ducks arrived in April. New nest May 18.
• Fred Groundhog
• Bobcat Nov. 3rd 📹
• I found a bird tracker, Hawk Mountain,  including Muskoka.

2022

• Baltimore orioles visited briefly.
• Crows 🐦 were here in a trio.
• 🐝HORNETS
• 🦋MONARCHS
• The first 🐣ROBIN was here as of Feb. 1st!  
• 😼OREGANO
• 🐻 SNUGGLE Bears
• 🐸 Tree frogs

2021

• Wood ducks arrived in April. They have a nest, April 17.
• 🐣PHOEBE  hatches May 22.
• I think the Crows 🐦 hatch May 24-ish.
• The 🐣ROBIN began laying, May 20.
• 🐛LDD Moths

2019

• Wood ducks: First signs of the wood ducks. All are gone.
• Phoebe!
• Flicker nest
• House wren
• My birding list

May 16 – Wood duck boxes 2018

Both nesting boxes have protected 20 eggs (11 and 9), and they have flown.

PHOEBE 2018

Phoebe's 5 have flown, as well.

Submit your data online and contribute to Canada's national nest records database! There are lots of citizen science sites.

Saw-whet owl in 2015.

Cedar waxwing built a nest in the pine tree in 2015: Cedar waxwing tales. Gathering nesting materials📹!

CHIPPING SPARROW

Tuesday, May 15th, in the veggie garden