A red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) hunts for lunch near the banks of the Lower Don River Saturday, Mar. 19/11 © BCP 2011 What a glorious morning for a spring walk in the Don Valley. Starting out at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, there was sunshine — all the more dazzling for its recent rarity — and more […]
Eye to eye with a grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), in Ashbridge’s Bay Park, April 1, 2010. © BCP 2010 I was having my wake-up coffee yesterday and reading my morning paper — the Science section in Tuesday’s New York Times (the July 5th edition — it gets delivered a day late via The Globe and […]
A white-tailed deer fawn catches sight of me on a Madawaska Valley cottage road on Saturday, July 3. © BCP 2010 Well, I didn’t find this lovely white-tailed deer fawn (Odocoileus virginianus) in my Beach backyard, although I have plenty of colleagues and friends who live just a little further east, out towards the […]
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 […]
An American red squirrel (Tamiasciuris hudsonicus) checks me out, April 12, 2010. © BCP 2010 I’m pretty sure that the meagre acreage of Ashbridge’s Bay Park only supports one or two pairs of red squirrels. I see a single specimen — rarely, if ever, two of them — only occasionally. But when I do, it’s […]
