Backlands Spring Migration – Yellowthroat

In our continuing series featuring birds sighted in the Backlands, we focus today on a member of the warbler family.
Established in 1968 for the Preservation of Williams Lake
In our continuing series featuring birds sighted in the Backlands, we focus today on a member of the warbler family.
In our continuing series featuring birds sighted in the Backlands, we focus today on a major bird of prey: the Golden Eagle.
Our 2021 annual Newsletter is now available! It includes updates on the dam & water level issues, land rezoning that would affect the watershed, and an invitation for members and volunteers.
This inky black bird with a sharp white stripe on his face is “nearly synonymous” with periodically burned forests like the Backlands, where it feasts on big, juicy wood-boring beetle larvae.
If you regularly visit a Canadian lake, you too can be a Citizen Scientist. Canadian Lakes Loon Survey participants have worked since 1981 to track Common Loon breeding by monitoring chick hatch and survival. Participants dedicate at least three days, visiting their lake once in June (to see if loon pairs are on territory), once in July (to see if chicks hatch), and once in August (to see if chicks survive long enough to fledge). [Photo: Robin Whyte]