A gorgeous Merlin on a fence near Willow Bunch SK 🪶🇨🇦 #birds #birding #nature #saskatchewan #therapy

Some Sparrows: Grasshopper, Savannah, Vesper, LeConte’s 🪶🇨🇦 #birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Saskatchewan #nature #sparrow

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Here is a short breakdown of how I did it, and what it cost! I am still tweaking my waterfall options, but the plastic one is a flower pot I found in my yard and variously patched and drilled…

I built a wildlife pond in 3 days! Can’t wait to see all the cute birds bathing and drinking, and to find out what new taxa I can attract! 🌱 #PondLife #Wildlife #Nature #garden 1/2

Clay-coloured Sparrows are hatching & boy are they tiny! These birds have a rapid tepro cycle: incubation 10-14 days, fledging in 7-10 days - before the young can fly! They belly out of the nest & scoot around on the ground bc ground nesting is so dangerous! 🇨🇦🪶🪺🐣🧪 @usaskartsci.bsky.social

Field update: completed 1️⃣6️⃣ experimental trials, caught 4️⃣ female brown-headed cowbirds (our odour donors), found 2️⃣3️⃣ yellow warbler and 7️⃣ clay-coloured sparrow nests 🪺🏆 🪶🇨🇦🧪 #FieldWork #biology #ornithology #research @usask.ca @usaskartsci.bsky.social

Gorgeous #Saskatchewan landscapes at Beaver Creek Conservation Area

Glimpses of our research study sites 🪶🧪🇨🇦 #FieldWork #biology #ornithology #research @usask.ca @usaskartsci.bsky.social

What a difference a day can make! We are up to 10 males recorded, 3 clay-coloured and 15 yellow nests!! 🪺🏆

30 days of fieldwork: banded >30 clay-coloured sparrows, recorded 8 males 🎶, found 1️⃣ 🪺; found 9️⃣ yellow warbler 🪺, completed 4 experimental trials! Many more nests to find, trials to run, and birds to band! #biology #ornithology #research #FieldWork @usask.ca @usaskartsci.bsky.social

Field Day 31: nests! Clay-coloured Sparrow CCSP + Brown-headed Cowbird Yellow Warbler American Robin #FieldWork #research #biology #ornithology @usaskartsci.bsky.social @usask.ca

My big brainwave today was realizing that these convenience store/takeout sized reusable bags are perfect for mist nets 🪶🇨🇦 @usask.ca @birdscanada.bsky.social #IYKYK #ornithology #MistNetting #BirdBanding #BirdRinging #biology

A surprise western tiger #salamander hitched a ride in the aged compost I had delivered for my #garden. Hope the lil guy can find a suitable habitat in the neighbourhood, as it wandered out of the garden when I was shovelling endless loads of soil. 🦎 #Saskatchewan #wildlife

Sparrows pt 2: chipping, white-throated, song again, vesper 🪶🇨🇦 #birding #research

Sparrows pt 1: song, lincoln’s, clay-coloured, white-crowned Handled w permits

Field day 3: catching song sparrows for Erin’s PhD research on multimodal communication and mate choice 🪶🇨🇦🧪 @usask.ca @usaskartsci.bsky.social

Field day 2: surveying Beaver Creek CA SK for our study species, learning to mistnet, catching Black-capped Chickadees. 🪶🇨🇦🧪 Birds handled w permits #research @usask.ca @usaskartsci.bsky.social

The inaugural Grieves Lab field season got off to a cold & windy start! We will be back out around #Saskatoon tomorrow in search of our study species for #research on how birds use smell to find and attract mates and avoid parasitism 🧪🪶🇨🇦 @usaskartsci.bsky.social @usask.ca

Bird banding tells us a lot about bird populations & is an important tool in biology research. Banders require extensive training & permits before being granted the privilege of working with these amazing taxa! White-throated Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Chipping Sparrow, Purple Finch 🪶🇨🇦 @usask.ca

Dark-eyed Juncos in a spring storm 🪶🇨🇦 #birds #birding #Saskatchewan #NatureTherapy

Mountain Bluebirds are back in Saskatchewan 🪶🇨🇦 #birds #birding #Nature #NatureTherapy

Ha! I had a wee binge last night and am now finished S5E2. There are some real heavy hitters in there, and I managed to forget some very wild stuff since my last watch! Tears were shed! Cats were cuddled!

For the #FieldBiologist s out there, I present to you the top rubber boot recommendations fr a survey i once ran on 🐦 (RIP). It is almost time for #FieldWork! #FieldGear #RubberBoots #Footwear @evornithology.bsky.social @bethmacshack.bsky.social

A little trip into the boreal forest today. Northern Hawk Owl, Grey (Canada) Jay 🪶🇨🇦 #birds #birding #BorealBirds #Saskatchewan

Beautiful prairie winter days in Saskatoon 🇨🇦 #saskatchewan #winter #beauty

Snowy Owls in Saskatchewan 🪶🇨🇦 #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds #birding

Saskatoon was absolutely stunning last night 🤩🌌 #Saskatchewan #NightSky #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights

Clark’s Grebe in Saskatoon 🇨🇦🪶 #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds #birding #BirdTherapy