Today was a great day for birding.  Our group of six met at the Hotel Horizon parking lot and spent about 1 hour  looking, and especially listening, to birds in the field across the street. Then we headed up the path towards the Hutopia central...

This morning I saw 30 species of birds in a 90 minute walk near my house! This is the best week of the year for birding because the warblers and other migratory birds are back and the leaves are not fully out so you can...

Here are some tips for birding around Sutton. If you want to see Brown thrashers and Chipping sparrows, as well as lots of crackles, song sparrow and robins head over to Domaine Gagné. For ruby-crowned kinglets and flickers head to Domaine Mont Louis.  For swamp sparrows,...

After a week of cold wet weather, the forecast for today was warm and dry.  It actually reached about 15 degrees Celsius. But at 6am it was still around minus 10 degrees Celsius .  My hands and feet were cold but it was definitely worth...

June 1, Huttopia 8 degrees C. The leaves at Huttopia are out, so it was mostly birding by ear. We heard a lot of birds but did not see very many.  We had a pretty large group, 8 people  We walked up to the river then...

Huttopia May 18, 2019 8 degrees, 8 people Had an amazing hike at Huttopia this morning with a really nice group. We heard and saw a lot of birds on the walk up to the main "centre de vie" building.  Once in the woods the ambiance was...

We were a group of seven. It was only 4 degrees, but a nice day with not much wind and sunny breaks.  When the sun shone, we noticed that the birds sang more. Since the leaves are not out it was easy to spot birds.  The oven...

I took a little 4 day vacation with my mom in Cape May New Jersey.  It is near Wildwood, at the tip of the cape.  Many migrating birds land on the cape so it's a birding hotspot.  We are very close to the beach, staying...

Huttopia/ Plein Air Sutton 21 species It was a damp, foggy morning.  The ground was muddy and my fingers were cold.  Despite this, I think that the birds were happy to have a break in the rain because they were all singing!  We had seen or heard...

Huttopia/Sutton Plein Air. 27 Species: It was a beautiful day on Saturday. Only 10 degrees at 7am but warmed up as the thousands of people who were on the mountain for the XMan race must have appreciated. The cars were streaming by going to the race. An...