Rob Porter | Songbirder

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This is pretty cool! #birds

Ice Sheets of North America - AntarcticGlaciers.org During the Quaternary Period, North America was covered by three ice sheets: the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, Laurentide Ice Sheet and Innuitian Ice Sheet. During the last glacial cycle, these ice sheets we...

Delighted to announce a new section on #AntarcticGlaciers devoted to North American glaciation. Read here to find out about the Laurentide Ice Sheet and its Geomorphology, extent at the LGM and deglaciation.
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Some daffodil shoots under snow

Some daffodil shoots under snow

Some daffodil shoots on frozen ground

Daffodils on the way up! #HamOnt

eBird Checklist - 16 Feb 2026 - Lake Huron Fishing Club Boat Launch - 19 species Submitted by Bob & Anne-Marie Taylor.

Incredible reports lately out of Baie du Doré, Ontario of large flocks of Bald Eagles.

Just look at the numbers and photos of this ebird report, 286 Bald Eagles in one bay in Ontario. Wasn’t that long ago I’d have thought there wasn’t that many in the whole province 🪶

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Planting joy close to home is an act of resilience Thousands of people across the country have turned ordinary spaces into habitat for pollinators.

Planting joy close to home is an act of resilience

Had some clear skies this past week so got about 2 hours on M81 with the Quattro 250p, Starizona Nexus reducer/corrector and QHY Minicam8 585m.

Come join us for a couple Great Backyard Bird Count events in Hamilton.

I’m leading a birding walk tomorrow in Gage Park, all welcomed, especially new birders!

#HamOnt #GBBC

oops that should have alt-text but is the 2026 sightings so far around here!

Yep, they've been around Hamilton/Burlington and some in Brantford. I guess "staying" might not be the right term -- more likely the extreme northern population has decided we are far south enough. They have been pushing further and further into northern Ontario during breeding season...

Please enjoy this latest episode of The Warblers podcast: Shorebird Conservation in James Bay, "Just you and the birds" thewarblers.buzzsprout.com/1784269/epis... #Birds #North #Canada #JamesBay #Conservation #Migration @birdscanada.bsky.social

I forgot I added this when I moved the hosting to Transistor! I like how the page for this has a comments section from Bluesky itself.

Here in the wilderness of the Canadian Rockies, the birds are our hosts. We are their guests.

Season 7 of Songbirding, "Kananaskis Country" is coming March 2, 2026.

Featuring new art by @tinylongwing.bsky.social

#birding #birdsong #birds #podcast #Alberta

They’ve recently started staying year-round in southern Ontario and it throws me off every time I spot one in January 😂

Monthly Meeting: Geology of the Niagara Escarpment

Ann Grindall will present an overview of the rock types that form the Niagara Escarpment and the geological drivers that explain the changes along its length.

📅 Feb 9, 2026 | 7:30 - 9 PM
📍 170 Dundurn St S #HamOnt
🔗 Livestream: buff.ly/libjr2i

OPINION | Canadian TV needs to get weird again | CBC Arts In the ‘80s and ‘90s, English Canadian screens were filled with bizarre, fever dream-like shows. Writer Niko Stratis argues that we need to back to that

For CBC Arts, I wrote about why I think Canada needs to revel in the beauty of its weirdest impulses www.cbc.ca/arts/canadia...

Tonight in Hamilton and on YouTube! #HamOnt

You know it 😂

Bird Study Group: Birding & Field Recording in Alberta

Rob Porter travelled to Alberta to find and record the songs of various bird species for his podcast, “Songbirding”, observing 143 species along the way.

📅 Jan 19, 2026 | 7:30 - 9 PM
📍 170 Dundurn St S #HamOnt
🔗 Livestream: buff.ly/libjr2i

CBC News further expands local journalism, bureaus | CBC News This year, CBC News will add 33 local journalists and create 11 new bureaus, increasing its Canadian footprint from 66 to 77 locations.

Big day! CBC News will add 33 local journalists and create 11 new bureaus this year, adding to last year's expansion of 30 journalists in 22 communities across Canada. Many of the new positions are based in Central and Western Canada. My editor's blog: www.cbc.ca/news/editors...

To do this just select the photos you want to combine and then under the triple dot, save as video

Found out today that you can take Live Photos from iOS and very easily stitch them into a video.

I took this as photos and later made it into video. There is some stuttering and one gap but I’m pretty impressed

A pair of Trumpeter Swans here, taken at Valens CA #HamOnt #birds 🪶

this seems to be down for me -- can't search and it says all my RSS feeds are 404

Field Noise Favorites: 2025 Craig recounts some of the best things that he listened to in 2025, including field recordings, audio documentaries, and albums.

If you need to escape somewhere in your headphones today, here's a list of audio documentaries, field recordings, and music that came out last year that I think can really take you places. These are some of my favorite listens of 2025.

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Move over cheesemares, breadmares are here

Dell seems to be the first to realise we don't actually care about AI PCs "What we've learned over the course of this year, from a consumer perspective, is they're not buying based on AI."

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome."

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Hey #ornithology Bluesky! Is there an ornithologist out there who'd be up for being interviewed for a piece on how people can help birds that nest in their yards? Dos and don'ts for providing nest boxes, providing nesting material, ensuring safety from predators, etc?

Singing male Blackburnian Warbler, perched on a branch with his beak open, full of song. His yellow-orange face and breast practically glow against the muted blues of the background.

it's apparently #NationalBirdDay but that's every day for me really. To celebrate regardless, here's a singing male Blackburnian Warbler I painted for @songbirding.com a few years back. I'm just in love with their colors.

🪶 #SciArt #BirdArt

While I was going through my photos (all 11K+ of them, it was an action packed day), I noticed that this Cedar Waxwing looked to have red waxy tips on the tail feathers. I had not seen this before as the red waxy tips are on the wings, but have heard that this is possible.