MJP Photography

05/09/2026

04/28/2026

Renaming the birds 🎶🐦🎵

04/28/2026

We are excited to announce the launch of our new Omushkego Biodiversity poster series! A Cree and English resource for learning about animals of our region. The series includes 6 posters, each showcasing a different group of animals, including birds, fish, reptiles, frogs, and more! We will be posting a different poster each day throughout week!

Today, we kick off with Omushkego Shorebirds! Shorebirds are a diverse group of bird species, including sandpipers, plovers, godwits, and phalaropes. As their name suggests, they are found near water: coastal James Bay, lakes, rivers, and wetlands. Shorebirds include bird species with some of the longest migrations, like the Red Knot, flying up to 30,000 km roundtrip between their Arctic breading grounds and South American winter habitat. Enjoy our posters!

04/27/2026

Today, we are excited to share with you the Omushkego Raptors poster. These raptors do not play basketball! They are birds of prey; they hunt for their food (fish, frogs, snakes, mammals, birds, and large insects) during the day or night from the sky or a perch (tree, wire). Raptors include hawks, eagles, falcons, owls, and vultures. They have hooked beaks, sharp talons, and keen eyesight that a hunter needs. They are estimated to have eyesight eight to ten times better than humans! Most raptor species migrate and some like northern hawk owl and great horned owl stay with us for the winter. Raptors have voices that are not so melodic, sounding like whistles, squeals, screeches, screams, and hoots. No matter, it is a joy to hear and see a raptor soaring in the sky or staring down at you from a tree.

04/23/2026

Omushkego Waterbirds is the third in our series of bilingual Cree-English biodiversity posters.

This poster shows geese, swans, ducks, grebes, and loons — all important cultural species. The Omushkego Cree cycle of life devotes 5 of 12 moons to goose species. April is when the Goose Moon occurs marking the start of spring with thousands of geese returning and time for goose break, when families move out to their spring camps. The spring sounds and sights of waterbirds inspire everyone.

How many of these shore feeding, dabbling (feeds from surface of water) and diving (feeds by diving into the water) species have you seen? How many have you eaten?

08/03/2025

Save the Piping Plovers of Wasaga Beach!

07/21/2025

07/05/2025

06/09/2025

05/29/2025

Hooo took that photo? 😉😏

The weekly migration blog is posted!

https://bpbo.ca/the-long-awaited-return-of-the-sun/

The big surprise was the Northern Saw-whet Owl caught in the first net round. It was a heart-melting joy for everyone! There are still a little over two weeks of migration monitoring: we are very curious to see what is left in store for us this spring!