George Arevalo (Director of Golf) and the Carruther’s Creek Golf and Country Club For hosting birders on their property over several days while a/the Cattle Egret visited in November 2014. Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall For allowing birders to park in…
Thank you very much for sponsoring me in the Baillie Birdathon this year. It is a great honour and pleasure to have been asked by OFO to be the guest birder for 2014. While there are lots of potential routes…
We both take great pleasure in being able to nominate Clive Goodwin for the 2014 OFO Distinguished Ornithologist Award. Clive has been a leader in Ontario field ornithology and conservation for nearly our entire lifetime and his selection as a…
Maris Apse for his many years of fundraising for the Baillie Birdathon on behalf of OFO. Patrick Baichoo for cordially hosting many people to view the Lark Sparrow in Fort Erie. Michel Gagnier and Countryside Canners Co. Limited for their…
2 June 2013 James Holdsworth, Frank Pinilla, Richard Skevington and I were honoured to be the Ontario Field Ornithologists’ celebrity birders in this year’s birdathon. With your help, about $3000 was raised. Twenty-five percent of this goes to support the…
Jon McCracken is a modest, low-key kind of person, who surely does not think of himself as a “Distinguished Ornithologist.” Yet, there is scarcely a person more immersed in learning about Ontario and Canada’s birds, or more deeply involved in…
Mike Burrell for his extensive work and support to ebird and the OBRC, along with streamlining operations between the two groups in Ontario. Chris Escott for his committed effort to complete a set of best practices for the OFO for…
With great spring weather promised over the long week-end, I looked forward to doing my Birdathon where I had started birding in the late 1940s, in the Kingston area as a member of one of the teams that take part…
Jim was born and raised in Oshawa, and he first took an interest in nature at age 7. At age 10, he took up the hobby of collecting birds’ eggs. By his early teens, Jim was hooked on birding and…
Diane Henderson for her many years of meticulous maintenance of the OFO archives. Kevin and Sharon Hockley for the construction and donation of two Pileated Woodpecker heads for the raffle people to wear at the annual convention. Peter Mladen for…