The fall nature walks with Miles Hearn have begun. I’ll be going each Wednesday. Today we accessed the Don Valley at Beechwood Ave. Much of our walk was in the area known as Crothers’ Woods. It was early spring the last time we walked this… Read More
This morning, before the full force of today’s heat and humidity set in, I went for a walk in a local Toronto woods. After all the rain we’ve been having lately, there were many mushrooms in the forest, some I was familiar with, others not.… Read More
Today was the last of the July series of nature walks with Miles Hearn, to Scarborough Bluffs. These are provided by the Toronto District School Board, and they are excellent. The fall walks will start in mid-September, and I’m looking forward to continuing. I’m learning… Read More
Today’s nature walk with Miles Hearn was at Lambton Woods, which is along the Humber River running south from James Gardens. The only camera I had with me today was my phone, so I was a bit more limited than usual on the photography front,… Read More
Today’s nature walk with Miles Hearn took place in Rouge National Urban Park, a fantastic place loaded with interesting trails as well as the Rouge and Little Rouge rivers. I started going on Miles Hearn’s nature walks in early spring and we’ve seen numerous plants… Read More
I signed up for more nature walks with Miles Hearn – this time a series of 4 July walks, the first one being in that Toronto treasure, High Park. Although spring is the best time for birds, we were fortunate to see, or in some… Read More
I arrived a bit early for today’s nature walk with Miles Hearn (the final one of this series…there are 4 more coming up in July). I saw Miles, who sent me up a steep trail to have a look at some mushrooms growing from a… Read More
This time I was on my own.
Today’s nature walk with naturalist Miles Hearn was at the Rouge National Urban Park. This place is one of the treasures of the Greater Toronto Area. I don’t have bird pictures today, not because there weren’t birds, but because these forest birds were mostly beyond… Read More
High Park is such a Toronto treasure! Our group enjoyed a wonderful nature walk today with naturalist Miles Hearn. There were a lot of birds around today – Miles listed 41 species on his nature walk report today: double-crested cormorant, mute swan, Canada goose, mallard,… Read More
