REVISIONS RECORD PAGE

(Site launched by W.Banner, 1998-02-22 and, reissued: 1998-03-28)

 

Revision #1, April 6, 1998

This "Revisions" page has been added to the site.

A new page, "Other Birds" with a treatise on the Chimney Swift has been added to the site.

A link to the Royal Ontario Museum has been added to the "Reference" page:

ROM   The Royal Ontario Museum - Metro Toronto Bird List.

 

Revision #2, May 8, 1998

Added pages for Kingfisher, Ovenbird, Tundra Swans migration and Nuthatches.

Added the following note to the Guide page:

     Numerous links to other sites are provided throughout this site. To minimize scrolling after you return from a visited site, areas identified as "Bookmark here" are provided to make the system return nearby to the point of departure. Click once on the "Bookmark here" to "mark the territory" before departing. (I would gladly welcome a better method from any of the HTML experts out there. There must be a better way!)

Without this feature the system persists in "returning to the top of the page", forcing the reader to scroll back down to the area of the links he was previously at.

References page:   Moved specific references to the respective subject pages. The References page will contain "general" references, credits, and copyright information.

Main Index page (left side frame):  Added selection of "Welcome" page.

Guide Page: Added description for selection of "Intro/Home" page.

Added note that music will not play while you are linked to an "outside" site. The music will restart when you come back to this "home" site in frames.

Added Canadian bird trends database - index to the Gray Jay page.

Added Judy's Feeder  "Birds now at Judy's Vancouver feeders". To the "Birding" page

 

Revision #3, July 12, 1998

A photograph of Russ Rutter has been added to round out the Gray Jay page.

 

Revision #4, August 13, 1998

Added: New page,"Black-crowned Night Heron"   (part of "Other Birds" section).

Added: New page,"Bird migration"   (stand-alone)

The "Gray Jay" page:

Added to "Banding"section: A link to a new page containing the 1946 naturalist report from Crater Lake, Oregon.

Added to "Prepations for Winter" section: An observation from"Birds of North America"about Gray Jay observed (and photographed) flying while carrying a whole slice of bread with its feet.

Added to"Range of the Gray Jay" section: A brief mention of Vic & Willie Via's experience with the Camp Robber

Added: A concluding photograph of Gray Jay gathering feathers for nest.

The "Other Birds"page:

Deleted: The page on Tundra Swans. The info now in "Bird Migration" Page.

Added: A new link to the "Night Heron"page..

On Kingfisher page: Deleted: Link to map re Grayling Michigan - did not work.

On   "Nuthatch page":   Changed introductory picture to one by Jim Baccus, having more detail.

On Naturalist page: Added: Reference link to "Monarch Watch".

Revision #5, August 18, 1998

On   "Intro page":

Changed introductory photograph from one by W. Lynch to that by Stig Linander and added his note about the picture.

Revision #6, September 25, 1998

Added Naturalist pages for "Trees": Ginkgo biloba, Tamarack, Tree of Heaven.

and for "Indian": The Indian Pipe plant.

Revision #7, October 16, 1998

Added Naturalist pages for "Walnut": The Black Walnut tree

and for "May-Apple": The May-Apple plant.

Revision #8, November 10, 1998

Added an "UPDATE": to the Gray Jay page (Reference links) describing a visit with the "Whiskey Jack" in Algonquin Park.

Added the following two links to the Gray Jay Page reference links:

More on The Park   Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada - from the Bridgefords of Aurora. Includes maps and pictures. Has its own music also.

Logging   Logging by Rail in Algonquin Park circa 1930 onward. Excerpts from a video

Revision #9, April 5, 1999

Added the "Killdeer page".

Also added the Clark College Bird index   to the main reference page.

Revision #10, September 18, 1999

Added the "European/Common Swift" as an addendum to the Chimney swift page.

Added a Summer update  to the Gray Jay "update" page.

Added a definition of "neotropical migrant" to the Migration page and Deleted two unusable links.

Added a section "Birdwatch stations" about the Greater Toronto Raptor Watch and the "North Sea Bird count to the migration page, just before "reference links".

Added the link "Lincoln" to the "Migration" page at the bottom of the "GENERAL" section of its reference links.

Added a fact sheet toTree of heaven 

Added"Walking Sticks" and   "More (Sycamore, Linden, Alder, Beech, Hemlock, Locust)"  to the trees page.

Revision #11, November 12, 1999

     Added the following to the "Other Birds"section:

  • Clark's Nutcracker
  • Barn Swallow
  • The Dippers

         On the Indian Pipe page of the Naturalist section:

    Recently replaced an unreliable link to the introductory photo with actual photograph and provided a photo credit to Dr. R. L. Curry

    Revision #12, December 26, 1999

         Added photograph of WOSLBOYR to introduce the "Gray Jay"page.

         Also, to the first paragraph of the Gray Jay page, added a "shortcut return trip" to access the "update" page.

         Added a report on the November 1999 visit to Algonquin Park to the "Update"page.

    Revision #13, December 31, 2000

    GENERAL
         This record spans a period of one year. Some changes will have already been evident to the visitor while other changes may have been overlooked here (a Senior's Moment!).

          Deleted various unavailable links and updated addresses of other such links that could be tracked down.

          Various cosmetic changes

          Deleted the "hidden" reference frame located at bottom of page. It did not seem to serve any useful purpose. The section is still available through the left side index.

          Changed background colour from FFF8DC to FFFFCC. The present colour appears more pleasant.

          Revised e-mail process to use an image of address to thwart robots trolling for junk mail addresses. "go there".

    BIRDING PAGE
          Added pic & ROM link to Song Sparrow."go there".

    Also added link to Aves The University of California Museum of Paleontology. The link opens with a nice pic of Snowy Owl.

          Added link to an interesting  Birding site: "The Klamath River/ Scott Valley Birding Sites" of Klamath National Forest among the Redwoods of northwest California. Of special interest here is the reported sighting of Vaux's swifts at Sleeping hideouts.

          Added link to a page discussing Tautonyms , the use of repetitive scientific names for a large number of birds.

    OTHER BIRDS PAGE
          On the Chimney Swift page added revised information & link for Robie Tufts Nature Centre as well as some detailed sighting notes (over 600 birds!) "go there". There is now presently no photo of the centre. Am trying to obtain a photo. Also added a link to an archive article from Sweeping magazine of National Chimney Sweep Guild.

          Also added Info on Vaux's Swift containing an interesting picture of a multitude of Swifts around a chimney. See Sleeping hideouts.

    MONARCH BUTTERFLY PAGE
          Added pics of Monarch & Viceroy taken in Rouge valley. Updated and added more reference links."go there".

    KILLDEER PAGE
          Updated stale link to Clarke College Killdeer

    DIPPER PAGE
          Added link to The Mountain Tour 2000   again a very interesting journal along with spectacular photos of this bird's environment.

    GINKGO TREE PAGE
          Added a clickable photograph of Dawn Redwood tree at Edwards Gardens"go there".

    HARRY LAUDER'S WALKING STICK
          Revised some photos and some new links"go there".

    DEVIL'S WALKING STICK
          Added a photo of shrub showing leaf configuration."go there".

    SYCAMORE TREE
          Added three clickable photographs of this tree, taken at Secord Ave. Toronto east end. "go there".

    MAY-APPLE
         Received permission to use a copy of the lead picture of Point-Pelee May-apples on the page instead of linking to it. Maintained a link to the Point-Pelee website. "go there".

          Added two clickable photographs of May-apple flower (Rouge valley) and group of plants (Sunnybrook park, east side of upper plateau, overlooking Wilket creek)."go there".

    Revision #14, Circa December, 2001 / January 2002

    GENERAL
         This record also spans a period of one year. Deleted various unavailable links and updated addresses of other such links that could be tracked down (this work still continuing). Also made various cosmetic changes

    BIRDING PAGE
          Added a link to Toronto Field Naturalists, and to the Kea, new Zealand's cheeky, pesky parrot!    "go there".

    GRAY JAY PAGE
          Added a section on the declining population of the Gray Jay in Algonquin Park. "go there".

          In the reference section, added a link to An extensive review of the literature on the Gray Jay written by Matthew Dietz, University of Michigan student. "go there".

          In the reference section, added a link to an interesting article written in 1897, describing the boldness of the Gray Jay.  "go there".

    GRAY JAY "UPDATE" PAGE
          Added the record for the Fall 2001 visit, including photographs. "go there".

    COMMON SWIFT PAGE
          Added A spectacular photo of a Common Swift in flight. "go there"

    DIPPER PAGE
          Added paragraphs mentioning the plight of American Dippers in South Dakota, as well as a link "A bird in trouble"on same subject in references. "go there" and  "there".

    MIGRATION PAGE
          "cleaned up" a few links. Be sure to look at the videos of Lesser Kestrels in Israel (select "Watch nesting birds"). "go there"

    MONARCH BUTTERFLY PAGE
         Added a few links re the migration of the Monarch and its wintering home Sanctuary at Angangueo (El Rosario), Mexico. "go there"

    Revision #15, February, 2002

    GRAY JAY PAGE
         Reorganized "Range of Gray Jay" section and added a group of photos/descriptions of other encounters with Gray Jays across Canada, begining with Stig Linander's daughter feeding a jay at Olympic National Park, north-west of Seattle.     "go there"

    CHIMNEY SWIFT PAGE
         Added a "salvaged" photograph of the Robie Tufts Nature Centre in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. "go there"

         Also added a link to record of Swift sightings in 2001 - interesting reading! "go there"

          Check out the spectacular photo of a Common Swift in flight (Added in Rev #14). "go there"

          Last minute addition:

          Added information & photographs of Rufous-throated Dipper provided by Doug Backlund. This is another bird "in trouble". The information begins "here".

    Revision #16, January, 2003 -

    INDEX AND GUIDE PAGES - MUSIC
         Removed the music feature to free up webspace for other files.

    BIRDING PAGE
         Added a link to webcam of Peregrines at Kodak building in New York as well as a link to "Project Rubythroat about the banding of Hummingbirds.     "go there"

         Added photo credit - Aarre Artolahti "go there"

    GRAY JAY PAGE
         In the "Range of Gray Jay" section added more information about Robert Maske and later added a link to his website. "go there"

         Relocated and revised the section on "DECLINING POPULATION to include info from "The Raven", April 25, 2002, re global warming, Siberian Jay and the Sichuan Jay. "go there"

         Added two photos (same bird) of juvenile Gray jay by Aarre Artolahti and Added photo credit (in reference section). "go there"

         Added a photograph of Gray Jay being hand fed at Bridge Lake in British columbia. Also added a link to an area map locating Bridge Lake (provincial Park). "go there"

         At the bottom of the reference links list, added a link to Kam Leung's website describing his trips in China including trip to "Jiu Zhai Gou" in Sichuan province. Don't miss this! also added a separate link to his map of China. Look closely and you will find Sichuan! "go there"

    CHIMNEY SWIFT PAGE
         Added a link to part of Hilton pond website, describing Chimney swifts in fireplace with narative and photos. "go there"

    NUTHATCH PAGE
         Added photo of Red-breasted Nuthatch by Aarre Artolahti and Added photo credit. "go there"

    DIPPER PAGE
         Added a link to Doug Backlund's website with information on a particular group of AMERICAN dippers in trouble as well as some very interesting photographs. "go there"

    MIGRATION PAGE
         Added a link "Project Rubythroat", about the banding of Hummingbirds. "go there"

    PHOTOGRAPHS PAGE
          At Sarsaparilla photo, Added a reference to the July 11, 2002 issue of "The Raven", Algonquin's newsletter. "go there"

    Revision #17, July, 2003 -

    GRAY JAY PAGE
         In the "Range of Gray Jay" section, moving from west to east, added Text and photographs by Suzanne Forester, Mike Fung, Orval Kliewer, Afshin Erfan-Manesh, Aarre Ertolahti, and Bernard Plourde, encountering Gray Jays in British Columbia, Washington, and Saskatchewan.       "go there"

         Also, In the "Range of Gray Jay" section added a photograph, by Aarre Ertolahti, of a Gray Jay in April, 2003: "This one's in my apple tree by the deck" "go there"

    NEW PAGE: THE SKUNK CABBAGE PAGE
          Added the Skunk Cabbage page - a photographic essay on this remarkable plant! "go there"

    Revision #18, January, 2004 -

    GRAY JAY PAGE
          In the "Range of Gray Jay" section added information and photographs of an Albino Gray Jay discovered at Bernard Plourde's "Les Relais du Trappeur". Also noted the survival of a Gray Jay that los a leg one year before.     "go there"

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