It was a warm sunny Saturday, with blue skies when Carol and I went for a drive by the park. As I backed up the car to turn around, I saw through my side mirrors a four- point white-tailed buck resting on the grass behind the tree. Oh he was so beautiful. The deer was […]
Category: On The Wild Side
Eastern Kingbird is fiercely protective of its young
Last weekend, I decided to go for a walk in the Highland Creek Park. In front of me was a marsh full of life: frogs creaking, herons in the trees, turtles sitting on logs, ducks paddling and the sounds of many babies demanding food. On a nearby dead tree branch on the edge of the […]
Family day trip surrounded by butterflies
Outside the sky was grey and, for the fourth day in a row, it was raining. My daughter Julie and I walked into the Niagara Falls Butterfly Conservatory and I felt like we had entered a tropical paradise. The air was warm and humid but our eyes didn’t know which way to look first. We […]
Birding in my backyard (with the rose-breasted grosbeaks for company)
I look outside and sitting there in the pine tree in glorious colour is the male. In the maple tree is the female. I have been waiting for the rose-breasted grosbeaks to return. For the past four years they have arrived by the end of the month of April. The adult male in breeding plumage […]
