Yellow hawkweed (Hieracium caespitosum) inside wire mesh protecting a sapling in High Park. © BCP 2010 Sometimes on my walks I get the feeling that there is scarcely a tree in Toronto that is safe from the ravages of our hardworking national symbol, the beaver. Certainly the trees in my neck of the urban woods […]
Penny feeds her little ones some yummy stringy green stuff otherwise known as submerged aquatic vegetation. © BCP 2010 At last! I finally connected with our swan family — Penny, her long-time mate, Tycho, and their two cygnets. I think the cygnets were hatched around May 21 or 22 — a guesstimate, since I was, […]
Can anyone help ID this little ball of fluff I saw last week in High Park? © BCP 2010 This little fellow sitting atop a wire fence caught my eye last week when I was staking out the purple martins at High Park. I think he/she’s a baby sparrow, but don’t know what species. When […]
Canada geese on the lake side of Ashbridge’s Bay last week. © BCP 2010 When I walk along the boardwalk at Ashbridge’s Bay, or down one of the foot paths that follow the water’s edge, I sometimes forget that this little bit of land, which juts out into the lake like an arthritic finger, wasn’t […]
A spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularia) wading at Ashbridge’s Bay last week. © BCP 2010 Weet, weet, weet. Weet, weet, weet… I heard this little guy’s high-pitched whistle before I spotted him as I walked along the shore at Ashbridge’s Bay a few nights ago. (To hear an audio file of the sandpiper’s call — from […]
