There has been a lot of celebration going around the blogosphere about Premier McGuinty’s recent announcement that Ontario will protect 225,000 square kilometers (55 million acres) of Boreal forest.
Click here to listen to my interview with Talkin Birds about the Ontario conservation announcement
I wanted to share snippets and the links to just a few:
Audubon Society [...]

A record number of viewers read Jeff’s blog earlier this week, which thanked Ontario’s Premier Dalton McGuinty for his bold and decisive action to protect the Boreal Forest.  It was a truly remarkable announcement, and hundreds of millions of birds will be protected from expanding mining and foresting industries.
Now it’s our turn to send thanks to Premier [...]

Dear Premier McGuinty,
I don’t know if you have ever heard the soft flutely song of a Swainson’s Thrush but try to imagine three million of them singing at once. That’s the sound emanating into the sky on a June morning from the number of Swainson’s Thrushes that would be found in the 55 million acres [...]

Credit: Jeff Wells

I wasn’t sure that Eddie would be joining me today (Monday, June 23) for early morning bird surveys and sound recording as he didn’t stir until I was out of the tent. The early mornings, late nights, and, of course, the paddling, had begun to make our eyes and aching backs beg our [...]

 
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The birds were a little lazier here at Camp 2 on Kawitos Lake than at Camp 1 on Petawanga Lake. The first bird I heard on Sunday morning (June 22) was a robin calling—it sounded like it had landed on the tent—at exactly 4:24. But it didn’t take long before the sound became [...]

 
Wet Aspen
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I heard Per and Tim when they woke up at 4 AM for a hoped-for sunrise (Saturday, June 21) but it was still cloudy so they went back to bed. A few minutes after they quieted (4:20 AM to be exact) a Song Sparrow began lustily belting out his tune right over [...]

 
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I wondered what kind of trouble I might be in when Eddie, a well-known writer for Audubon, Field and Stream, and many other magazines, casually mentioned minutes before take-off from Miminiska Lodge that he was best-known for canoeing wilderness rivers without guides and then writing about the adventure. That feeling was compounded when [...]