Upcoming Trips
Trip Date: January 24, 2026
Participants: 5-10
CA$50.00 per participant
Waterfowl season along the Hamilton Waterfront offers some of the most reliable and diverse cold-season birding in southern Ontario. This tour concentrates on sheltered bays, open lake edges, and viewing platforms where ducks, grebes, loons, and gulls gather in impressive numbers, often at close range. The industrial shoreline and warm-water influences keep large areas ice-free, creating ideal conditions for both common and hard-to-find species. It is a relaxed, highly productive outing that blends excellent identification opportunities with the constant movement and surprises that make winter waterfowl birding along Lake Ontario so rewarding.
Trip Dates: April 3, 2026 ~ April 11, 2026 ~ April 18, 2026
Participants: 5-10
CA$25.00 per participant
Sky Dancers of Spring is a celebration of one of Ontario’s most captivating seasonal rituals, the mesmerizing courtship displays of the American Woodcock. As winter loosens its grip and the first mild evenings settle over the landscape, these secretive birds emerge at dusk to perform their skyward spirals and musical twittering flights. This tour is designed for nature lovers who want to witness this phenomenon up close while exploring early spring habitats alive with the year’s first migrants.
Trip Date: March 14, 2026 ~ March 21, 2026
Participants: 5-10
CA$50.00 per participant
The Long Point Birding Area is a premier staging ground for some of the most impressive movements of large birds in Ontario. This tour highlights peak periods for migrating waterfowl, elegant swans, and the unmistakable presence of cranes as they use the marshes, agricultural fields, and Lake Erie shoreline to rest and refuel. Vast flocks, shifting light, and constantly changing conditions create an ever-evolving birding experience, with opportunities for close views, flight photography, and in-depth discussion on migration ecology. It is a powerful, atmospheric outing that showcases the scale and spectacle of migration along one of the Great Lakes’ most important corridors.
Trip Date: April 25, 2026
Participants: 5-10
CA$50.00 per participant
Early spring at the Long Point Birding Area is a time of anticipation, when the first true migrants begin to arrive along the Lake Erie shoreline. This tour focuses on early migrant such as sparrows, blackbirds, waterfowl, raptors, and the first wave of songbirds using a mix of woodland edges, wetlands, and shoreline vantage points to intercept birds as they funnel north. Long Point’s geography concentrates migration in a remarkable way, offering close views, constant movement, and the chance for unexpected highlights as conditions change throughout the day. It is a dynamic, educational outing that captures the energy of spring migration before the peak crowds arrive.