Environment

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

On cool September mornings, dew reveals the intricate weavings of spiders.