Oracle Tutoring, Campbell River, BC
(250) 203-6544 (text) or (250) 830-0295 (talk)
Self-tutoring about birds: the tutor continues about the red-breasted nuthatch. Continuing from yesterday’s post, I want to talk more about the red-breasted nuthatch’s voice. The commanding, repeating tone it makes that’s rather like an alarm from a timer has been …
Self-tutoring about birds: the tutor reports a great sighting. I’ve mentioned in a few other posts that my best bird discoveries have been when I wasn’t looking for that bird. This is one such case: I didn’t have the red-breasted …
Self-tutoring about birds: the tutor mentions a favourite, the varied thrush. I’ve written a couple of posts about varied thrush, a year-round resident on Vancouver Island. Possibly similar to the Steller’s jay, the varied thrush is more visible certain times …
Self-tutoring about birds and ecology: the tutor mentions ravens and crows. The competitive exclusion principle states that two animals cannot occupy the same niche – ie, role – in the same environment: one always out-produces the other, and takes sole …
Self-tutoring about provincial identity: the tutor mentions an issue about the noble Steller’s jay. I recently realized that the Steller’s jay is our provincial bird here in BC. To quote John Lennon, “I ain’t too surprised.” After moving to BC …
Self-tutoring about birds: the tutor notes a song sparrow. For almost 40 years I’ve been observing birds. As a kid I lived on the east coast, often in rural areas. There, I was free to follow birds to observe them …
Self-tutoring about birds: the tutor tells a story. I had some great chance discoveries of birds when I was a kid. During the past five or more years, however, my best bird identifications have involved some hide and seek. Another …
Self-tutoring about local birds: the tutor notices, for the first time, a red-tailed hawk. Red-tailed hawks are summer residents of most parts of Canada, but live year-round on Vancouver Island as well as in extreme southern BC, Ontario, and Quebec. …
Self-tutoring about birds: the tutor mentions the barn owl. Barn owls inhabit every continent save Antarctica. However, their Canadian range is quite small: extreme southern Ontario and southwestern BC. I saw a barn owl on Mainland BC: as I rounded …
Self-tutoring about birds: the tutor mentions ravens and crows. Maybe 10 days ago, out walking, I heard some crows making a fuss. They were on the ground nearby, maybe eight of them, but I couldn’t tell what the fuss was …