Being a girl from California this may come as a surprise, but I actually don’t mind the winters in Winnipeg (this is currently my second winter here). Though some days are absolutely miserable with wind chills and temperatures below -20°C, most of the time the weather is tolerable and sometimes quite pleasant with sunny clear … More Winter in Manitoba
In the beginning of this month I traveled to California for an early holiday visit to see friends and family. It was a nice break from Winnipeg’s winter weather, and refreshing to see green grass, feel rainfall, and hear choruses of birds in the mornings. Returning to Winterpeg, I brought back Wingspan, a unique board … More Wingspan – a perfect gift for bird lovers
The fall season is short in Winnipeg, with leaves quickly turning to warm shades of oranges and yellows, and temperatures dropping to the single digits. Last week we also had a snowstorm where it reached 34cm of snow in the city (source: chvnradio), and even double that in other areas of Manitoba! For those few … More Autumn transitions
My first experience mist-netting birds was in the fall of 2013 (6 years ago already?!) when I was an undergraduate student in an ornithology course at UC Davis. In one of our field trips, we learned how to set up nets and were lucky to catch some birds. I’ll always remember holding my first one, … More Bird mist-netting
I have a goal to create two blog posts each month, but I fell behind in August (whoops!). It was a busy month, finishing up the 2019 purple martin field season, hosting visits in Winnipeg of family and friends, and preparing for & attending the SCO-SOC (Society of Canadian Ornithologists) conference in Quebec City. The … More Conference in Quebec
I love working in the field, observing and working with the animals, witnessing captivating behaviours, and learning about their life histories first-hand. In the last few months, I have had a lot of fun being part of the field crew in the Avian Behaviour & Conservation (ABC) lab at the University of Manitoba, working with … More Into the field with Purple Martins
It has been almost a year through graduate school, and I am exhausted. My experience at the University of Manitoba has been a potpourri of emotions, ranging from excitement for doing cool bird research and making valuable connections, overwhelming stress of responsibilities and steep learning curve, giddying happiness of successful grant proposals after multiple rejections, … More A glimpse into graduate school
On May 25th and 26th, I visited a couple friends at the Delta Marsh, by Lake Manitoba. I stayed the night with my good friend Kristen Zumdahl, who is living at the marsh for the spring and summer to study Franklin’s ground squirrels. I’ll first describe some of the incredible bird activity at the marsh, … More Birds & squirrels at Delta Marsh
While a typical sparrow may be described as an overall little brown bird, there is actually a large variety of colors, patterns, and facial markings that make sparrow species’ appearances very unique. There’s been a huge push in sparrow abundance in Manitoba lately. Some of them, like the White-crowned and Harris’s are only passing through … More Sparrow sponanza
The spring in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is unlike any other spring I have experienced. It’s extraordinary to see the vast contrast from winter weather in such a short amount of time. In March, after a long winter with sub -20C temperatures, the melting snow created little streams of water running down the streets and revealed lawns … More Canadian Spring
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