Notes from the Wild
Trees for Birds
Mar 29, 2017 |If you love birds, and you plant trees or shrubs this spring, please choose native plants.
The Hollywood Finch
Feb 27, 2017 |The house finch, perhaps more than any other bird species, is a confirmed urbanite, eating the bird seed we provide and cozying up to us at nesting time – hanging flower baskets are favourite nest sites.
Bald Eagles
Feb 2, 2017 |Luther Marsh is likely the best prospective nesting real estate for bald eagles in the Headwaters region.
Starlings – Birds We Love to Hate
Jan 4, 2017 |Starlings were introduced to New York City from Europe in the 1890s, there are now more than over 200 million of them in North America.
Mastodon Food
Nov 28, 2016 |Mastodons fed largely on the twigs and branches of trees but undoubtedly enjoyed fruit as well.
Blue Jays
Oct 25, 2016 |Blue jays are villains – winged brigands with a penchant for raiding the nests of other birds to devour eggs and nestlings.
Herons and Egrets
Sep 27, 2016 |Herons, egrets and bitterns are long-legged freshwater and coastal birds in the family Ardeidae.
True Bugs Suck
Aug 25, 2016 | | EnvironmentTo an entomologist, “true bugs” are insects that suck. No insult intended – they really do suck.
Fox Scat: the scoop on poop
Jun 30, 2016 | | BlogsOn a Bruce Trail hike I came across a small mound of freshly deposited fox scat.
Caddisflies
May 30, 2016 |French artist Hubert Duprat capitalized on this in the 1980s by supplying caddisflies with flecks of gold and tiny precious stones.