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Central Park Raccoons

By Corey • October 28, 2009 • 6 comments

Yet another lunch break outing to Central Park recently led to a nursery of Common Raccoons Procyon lotor searching for food both natural and human-supplied in the vicinity of Turtle Pond.  The four youngsters, seemingly without the benefit of adult supervision, were trying their best to get into trouble but were a little too scared [...]

Taking Non-birders Birding in Alley Pond Park

By Corey • January 14, 2009 • 8 comments

This past Sunday I had made plans with Daisy to take two of our close friends, Kerry and Becky, to see the Great Horned Owls in Alley Pond Park.  Neither Kerry nor Becky are birders (though, if you remember, Kerry is getting there) but the idea of seeing an owl is often enough to get [...]

Bandits in the Park: Vancouver’s Raccoons

By Charlie • October 1, 2007 • 8 comments

Raccoons may not be of much interest to many North Americans (whose usual view is of an unwelcome furry tail scurrying away from an upturned garbage bin), but speaking as a Brit who only comes across them every so often I have to admit to being fascinated by these ring-tailed, bandit-masked, dextrous mammals.
The only [...]

Birding Downtown Vancouver

By Charlie • May 6, 2006 • 2 comments

Stanley Park, Vancouver, Canada
02 May 2006
 

 
I first came to Vancouver when it was one of the prettiest cities in the world. Tucked into the foothills of the Rockies, built on a natural harbour, Vancouver seemed to have been built with an eye on its natural surroundings. It was typically Canadian I thought. Proud, but in [...]