Nesting hawks & rare woodland butterflies
The search for new MAPS sites to join our existing Maplewood Bog and Rock Ridge stations has begun. The process is challenging, particularly here in the Frontenac Arch where ‘disturbed’ [...]
Category Archives: M.A.P.S
MAPS Visit 7-Rock Ridge (RRID)
It’s always nice to end on a high note. The Rock Ridge MAPS site finally lived up to the potential I thought it possessed for sampling post-breeding dispersal. Waves of [...]
MAPS Visit 7-Maplewood Bog (MABO)
The Frontenac Breeding Birds program is close to completion with just the final visit to the Rock Ridge (RRID) MAPS site remaining for this year’s fieldwork. The Maplewood (MABO) MAPS [...]
MAPS Visit 6-Maplewood Bog (MABO)
The penultimate visit to MABO in 2009 was completed on July 25. Weather during the morning was more like spring with cool temperatures, thick fog and cloudy skies. A result [...]
MAPS Visit 5-Rock Ridge
Fieldwork for the Frontenac Breeding Birds program is still rolling along with the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship program. Since our last reports on visit three to each of the [...]
MAPS Visit 3-Rock Ridge
Our third visit to Rock Ridge was a much busier affair than the last when just 9 birds were captured in six hours in mid June. We finished the morning [...]
MAPS Visit 3-Maplewood Bog
The mid-season “switch” was turned on at MABO this past week. We were plodding along at about 25 birds/morning during the first two visits in early to mid-June. This period [...]
