Kit's Columns

The following are a selection of columns written by Kit about nature, wild birds in particular. They are mostly written to tie in with a natural occurrence associated with the time of year, the weather or some man-made happening; all experiences are associated with S-E Ontario. Feel free to extract a portion of them as a quotation but please give Kit credit as the source. We also welcome questions and comments sent via an e-mail message or write to her at the address listed on the contact page.

Kit has re-written or re-processed the graphics on a number of the columns below so that the download time should no longer be a significant factor, even for those of us who still have dial-up access to the intenet.

Notice that the most recent columns are added at the top of the list.

- Loon Chicks
- Quadriplegia: Notes on six cases
- Two Chipping Sparrows with Wing-tip Growths
Re-write of a previous column
- Cats: The Roamers and the Homers
Re-write of a previous column posted in 2004
- Using the Scanner as a Camera, Part Two: some insects and spiders
- A Study of 379 Window Collisions
- Holes in Your House, Window Reflections, and the Hormones of Spring
- American Robins
- Castings
- Using a Scanner as a Camera
- Studies of 32 Lead-poisoned Loons
- Looking for Starvation; Evaluating the Pectoral Muscles
- Basic Suggestions for Finders of the Injured
- Spinal Deformities
- Nightjars
- Great Gray Owls: Flying Ultralights
- Our Aviaries: Trying to Think like a Bird (Part 1)
- Our Aviaries: Trying to Think like a Bird (Part 2)
- Feeding Ospreys: ways we have found that work (Part Two)
- About Ospreys: A study of 50 (Part One)
- Bird Meets (or eats) Porcupine
- Common Loons: Some Suprising Results from Hook-swallowing
- Common Loons: Strange Land-landings
* Great Blue Herons - Chapter Two
- Raptor Chicks Grounded: How to Help
- Do's and Don'ts: Nests, Eggs and Young
* Great Blue Herons - Chapter One
- Turkey Vultures
- Study of 132 broken backs
- Feeding by choice
- Understanding Feathers
- Highlights from Notes & Anecdotes Fall 2003
- What to do when you find an injured bird
* Great Blue Herons - Introduction


* excerpt from draft manuscript of Beaks, Brains and Bones Volume 4, studies of 355 Great Blues admitted for care.

Note: Most of Kit's columns are distributed on the web in a format that requires Version 7 of Adobe®Acrobat® Reader, available free from Adobe Systems.
A few of the columns are still distributed as regular web pages and do not require any special program other than the one you are currently using to read this page.

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Updated Septemeber, 2008