This is our favourite time of year to visit the Chaplin area, along Hwy #1, roughly halfway between Moose Jaw and Swift Current, Saskatchewan. Chaplin Lake is part of a larger wetland complex including nearby Reed Lake and Old Wives Lake, which has been designated a wetland of Hemispheric Significance by the Western Hemisphere Shorebird […]
The spring shorebird migration ranks among nature’s great spectacles, with Chaplin Lake in southern Saskatchewan a top hot spot. The tasty buffet served up on Chaplin’s shores makes this “the” stopover for hundreds of thousands of shorebirds on epic journeys from wintering grounds as far south as South America to as far as the high […]
Welcome to Photo Journeys. Today, Lift-off refers both to the launch of our blog and the subject of our first posting. We are fortunate to live near the Central North American Flyway, a migration route that birds follow between northern nesting grounds and southern wintering grounds. While a number of birds follow this highway in […]