Canada Locations

Locations where I've birded while visiting Canada

2024

Memories of Lake Saskatoon & Little Lake
Memories of Lake Saskatoon & Little Lake

Saskatoon Island Provincial Park rests between Little Lake and Saskatoon Lake about 12 miles west of Grande Prairie in Alberta, Canada. I’ve described Crystal Lake in Grande Prairie elsewhere on…

Memories of 2005 at Dog Lake – BC, Canada
Memories of 2005 at Dog Lake – BC, Canada

My earliest adventure in Canada was while traveling to Alaska. Late in May-2005, I drove out of Idaho and crossed over the border at Kingsgate Port of Entry. After driving…

Memories of the Dempster Highway
Memories of the Dempster Highway

On May 18, 2005, still new to birding, I left for a 73 day ‘trip of a lifetime’ that covered 12,000 miles. All did not go as planned, but it…

Memories of Lake Erie’s Northern Shore
Memories of Lake Erie’s Northern Shore

2023-05-13 Long Point on Lake Erie While visiting with my friend Judy in Ontario Canada, she offered to escort me to a few of her favorite birding destinations, and Saturday…

Memories of Lake Ontario’s Northern Shore
Memories of Lake Ontario’s Northern Shore

2023-05-13 Ontario’s Bronte Harbour After enjoying breakfast at a local diner last Thursday, we visited Bronte Harbour. My friend Judy wanted to show me the nesting Red-Necked Grebes at the…

Memories of Fort Nelson
Memories of Fort Nelson

I have had the pleasure of visiting Fort Nelson on three occasions. All three fell in June. My first visit came in 2005, while heading to Alaska. Because I left…

Memories of Grande Prairie Alberta
Memories of Grande Prairie Alberta

My first visit to Crystal Lake in Alberta’s Grande Prairie was in June-2005 while on my way to Alaska. I was using The MILEPOST travel guide to inform me of…

Memories of Watson Lake, Yukon
Memories of Watson Lake, Yukon

In June-2005, while traveling to the northern reaches of the Yukon Territory and Alaska, I first found my way to Watson Lake. It was a destination I looked forward to…

Memories of Minesing Wetlands
Memories of Minesing Wetlands

2023-05-18 A Quick Tour Of McKinnon Road Thursday, I drove north, towards my friend’s cottage near the shore of Georgian Bay on Lake Huron. I planned a few stops along…

Memories of Taylor Landing, Canada
Memories of Taylor Landing, Canada

My 2022 expedition to northwestern Canada included two visits to Taylor Landing. Once while traveling north, and again on my return, headed south. Each visit was memorable. Following are the…

Memories of Lesser Slave Lake
Memories of Lesser Slave Lake

2022-05-30 Late May At Lesser Slave Lake It took two days to drive from Jasper to Slave Lake, a town at the southeastern end of Lesser Slave Lake that I…

Memories of Charlie Lake, Canada
Memories of Charlie Lake, Canada

In June-2005, I first visited Beatton Provincial Park at Charlie Lake near Fort Saint John, in British Columbia for a few days. I was traveling to Alaska at the time…

Memories of McIntyre Marsh
Memories of McIntyre Marsh

I first visited McIntyre Marsh in June-2005 during my stop-over in Whitehorse Yukon while traveling to Alaska. It would be seventeen years later that I would return to enjoy the…

2022

2022-07-05 Kimiwan Lake
2022-07-05 Kimiwan Lake

My long drive from Grande Prairie ended Monday at Lake Kimiwan near the Town of McLennan in the province of Alberta. There is a boardwalk over the marsh at the…

2022-06-16 Thursday At Lake Lebarge
2022-06-16 Thursday At Lake Lebarge

Rather than chase the same birds as I did Wednesday, I wanted to try for birds in an area yet unexplored by me. Lake Labarge, the subject of Robert Service’s…