​Ellis Bird Farm visitors delight in watching our old mother hen and her fast-growing chicks wandering around the gardens. 

​Thanks to EBF Board Member, Colleen McPhee, and her husband and sons, EBF has a new yard light. We are grateful to the McPhee team for this new and important addition to the site!

​Our display case at the front desk always gets attention -especially when it contains a species that carries its young attached to its belly! 

​Local bird expert, Judy Boyd, led a successful Beginning Birder workshop at EBF on June 12. Participants were excited to learn about some of our local birds, and were treated to close-up views of nesting Mountain Bluebirds. 

​Ellis Bird Farm made science history on Tuesday May 31 when University of Manitoba Grad Student, Alisha Ritchie, and her EBF team (Cheyenne Knight, Claudia Lipski and Myrna Pearman) retrapped a very special yearling Purple Martin. This bird had been retrofitted with a light level geolocator last season, as a nestling, and is the first songbird EVER(!) to be tracked on its first migration. The bird had evaded several attempts to trap it, so it has been named Houdini.