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Mr Hobo Wally – Melancthon Quarry

May 10, 2011 | Guest | Web Extras

“Walk with me, Stop the Quarry” – Mr Hobo Wally – Melancthon Quarry A Song to Save Our Farmland by Hobo Wally

Fishers have been Lured South

May 3, 2011 | Don Scallen

Fishers are said to attack porcupines in a particularly grisly manner.

Let the sun shine in

Mar 24, 2011 | Phyllis Robinson | Back Issues

Here at our farm we stare transfixed at the meter on our newly installed solar panel as it efficiently, quietly and greenly produces kilowatt-hour after kilowatt-hour.

Catching a few rays

Mar 24, 2011 | Jeff Rollings | Back Issues

While debate rages about the pros and cons of corporate wind farming, solar power production has largely flown under the radar.

Inglewood Light and Power

Mar 24, 2011 | Jeff Rollings | Back Issues

It’s an elegant old lady, decked out in a fancy hat. Inglewood’s Riverdale Woolen Mill – these days perhaps better known as the Riverdale Fitness Centre – has seen a lot of different uses since Thomas Corbett first established a business on the site along the banks of the Credit River in 1841.

Cats, cannabis, kilts and kori bustards

Mar 24, 2011 | Douglas G. Pearce | Back Issues | Countryside Digest | Departments | Spring 2011

Highland Security The fashion of wearing nothing beneath a kilt has been condemned by the Scottish Tartans Authority, which has called the practice “childish and unhygienic,” The Times of London…

Merlins

Mar 14, 2011 | Don Scallen | Notes from the Wild

Merlins in Caledon would have been almost unthinkable 25 years ago. At that time, except on migration, Merlins seldom strayed south of the lakes and forests of the Canadian Shield.

Great Horned Owls

Feb 14, 2011 | Don Scallen

Great horned owls along with other members of the owl tribe are gifted with adaptive traits beyond their acute senses.

Winter Bird Counting

Jan 17, 2011 | Don Scallen

The Christmas Bird Count is an annual tradition that entices naturalists to down steaming cups of pre-dawn coffee and then head out birding at first light.

Snowflakes, sap and socialist plots

Nov 20, 2010 | Douglas G. Pearce | Back Issues | Countryside Digest | Departments | Winter 2010

Unfortunately, Bentley’s love of snow was not reciprocated: He died of pneumonia in 1931 after walking home in a blizzard.

Matching Birds to Food

Nov 20, 2010 | Linda McLaren

The WINTER 2010 edition of the Headwaters Sketchbook: Matching Birds to Food.

Vultures

Oct 11, 2010 | Don Scallen | Blogs | Notes from the Wild

Despite their “refined” eating habits, vultures have traits that endear us.