Outside the sky was grey and, for the fourth day in a row, it was raining. My daughter Julie and I walked into the Niagara Falls Butterfly Conservatory and I felt like we had entered a tropical paradise. The air was warm and humid but our eyes didn’t know which way to look first. We […]
Category: On The Wild Side
Birding in my backyard (with the rose-breasted grosbeaks for company)
I look outside and sitting there in the pine tree in glorious colour is the male. In the maple tree is the female. I have been waiting for the rose-breasted grosbeaks to return. For the past four years they have arrived by the end of the month of April. The adult male in breeding plumage […]
