Blog Articles About Urban Wildlife

Photo Friday: Name That Turtle

Last weekend, The Boy and I went to the Evergreen Brickworks and took a long walk in the Don Valley woods. I’ve talked about how much I love this place before, and this trip was no exception. The trees were green, we saw more birds than ever before, and the trails had been much improved,…

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Redtailed Beauty

Last weekend, The Boy and I decided on an excursion to Henry’s, Heaven for camera nuts. Not to buy, just to see, hold, and possibly to covet. What? Don’t you do that? We cut through St. James Park on the way, both carrying our cameras. I got stuck taking photos of leaves and he wandered…

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A Walk on the Ptui: Bugs and Weeds

The trees are getting desperate, hanging onto their leaves as long as they can. It’s becoming harder and harder not to face the fact that Fall is here. So I thought we all could use some help in maintaining the delusion that October is just a particularly colourful part of summer. What better way than…

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A Walk on the Ptui, Part Two

Well, that took a while… A little over a month ago, I posted Part One of our adventures on the Ptui a.k.a. the Leslie Street Spit (hence the nickname). I fully intended to post Part Two within a week, but life and other adventures intervened. Part One was about the landscape of Tommy Thompson Park,…

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