May 9th - Global Big Day and Beyond!


(Annual birding "Big Day")


Beautiful male Eastern Bluebird at Spring Garden!



Barn Swallow


Spotted Sandpiper


Cliff Swallow - our first sighting ever!


Fledgling Killdeer, so cute!



3 fledglings bookended by Mom and Dad!


Northern Waterthrush at Big O Conservation Area


Unique sighting at Ojibway Prairie: a coyote!


Welcome to the Badlands of Essex County!



Baby field mouse at Holiday Beach Memorial Forest


Jack-in-the-pulpit in the Mayfair woodlot


Wild Geranium



Fiddlehead fern



Cool fungus findings @ Big O




Two unusual wildflower findings at Big O Conservation Area... we can't seem to ID them!


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