Today’s nature walk with Miles Hearn took place along the Don Valley. We met at the foot of Beechwood Drive, near the place known as Crother’s Woods. This area was named after the Crothers Caterpillar company which operated until 1979 on a site where a… Read More
Today our nature walk group, let by Miles Hearn, visited Scarborough Bluffs. We walked an area entirely on top of the Bluffs. If you measure spring by the bird migration it comes and goes so quickly. Many of the songbirds which stop by on their… Read More
Today’s nature walk with Miles Hearn took place close to home at Sam Smith Park, a local hotspot for birdwatchers. The birds did not disappoint. Miles counted 42 species in all. I’ve been keeping a list of all the species identified in 2019, either on… Read More
Today’s nature walk with Miles Hearn took place at Rouge Hills, Toronto’s urban national park. It’s one of my favourite places in the GTA to walk. I was worried it might rain based on forecasts earlier in the week, but the weather held and temperatures… Read More
This morning’s nature walk with Miles Hearn took place at Wilket Creek Park, the sister park to Sunnybrook Park. Not all Ruby-crowned Kinglets show red markings on their heads. I saw this one as we were looking for a house wren which was calling in… Read More
Today’s nature walk with Miles Hearn was at one of my fave places for a walk, Sunnybrook Park. There are actually two large parks side by side, Sunnybrook Park and Wilket Creek Park, where we’ll visit next week. There are beautiful trails along the West… Read More
Today’s nature walk with Miles Hearn took place at High Park, on a windy and cool morning. This is a great time to visit this Toronto treasure – before the cherry blossoms pull in crowds of people. They already have big signs up – don’t… Read More
What a lovely day for a nature walk. My cousin Wanda and I met up with Miles Hearn and our group at the James Gardens parking lot for a walk along the Humber River and in Lambton Woods. As we crossed the bridge over the… Read More
Today’s nature walk with Miles Hearn took place at Humber Bay East. This is the park just south from Parklawn, on the west side of Toronto. The entire park exists on landfill which has only been there since 1984. It’s a wonderful place to look… Read More
Miles Hearn’s spring nature walks started this week. I’m going on the Wednesday walks and today our group met up at Marie Curtis Park, just down the road from here. It looked like it was going to be a nice day, but that changed quickly.… Read More
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