Environment

Take time to notice the fox, white-crowned and white-throated sparrows.

The flight of the timberdoodle should continue through April and can be witnessed at dawn as well as dusk.

With the mega quarry shelved, opponents say they’ll keep fighting until they get permanent protection for farmland in Ontario.

Humans have long had a love-hate relationship with these ingenious creatures.

The heart-gladdening beauty of early wildflowers is a signal all is right in the woodland. Which one is your favourite?

The redpoll feeding etiquette is decidedly boorish; they jostle each other rudely for favoured perches on the feeders.

Chickadees are consummate risk takers and they pack a lot of smarts into their tiny bird brains.

Hairy woodpeckers brandish large dagger-like beaks; the beaks of downys are smaller and more chisel-like.

Opossums, having migrated north are also unlikely winter survivalists. Naked ears, feet and tails slough off frozen fragments during our harsh winters.

Many ferns boast exquisite form and are splendid photographic subjects. Seeking them is a fine excuse for a late season ramble.

“Macdonald spoke on April 27, 1885. He noted that the definition of ‘persons’ should be broadened to include women, this being a half century before the deed would finally be done by the famous Person’s case of 1929.

Denuded and sterilized, the land waits sullenly for the homes and strip malls that characterize the inexorable expansion of Brampton.