While out with the Earth Tracks Wildlife Tracking Apprenticeship crew, Saturday was spent focusing on Pressure Releases in the sandpit. You can read about this from a previous year here. […]
“Not only is an animal an instrument played by the landscape, but the landscape is an instrument played by the animal. Thus the spheres of animal, plant, and land come […]
Sunday, May 15, 2022 It was a hot day at Lockier’s Pit in Orangeville. The sky was blue with wispy cirrus clouds high overhead. The grey treefrogs sang a summery […]
About 10 minutes North of Orangeville, along the fence line of Bruce Trail at Dunby rd, there are a couple of American Mountain Ash (Sorbus americana) trees. These trees are […]
My excitement has been growing in regards to galls and cankers lately. Galls are abnormal growths or swelling induced by the interaction of an aggravating life form with the plant. […]
Frost cracking along American Beech (Fagus grandifolia) tree, Lake of Bays, 2022.02.12 A couple of years ago on a trail which circled Sasajewun Lake at the Algonquin Wildlife Research Station, [...]
Fri, Feb 11 Conditions at Dwight, Ontario : high of 1*C; low of -3*C; precip 7mm; wind coming from the South, max wind 33km/h; overcast. On Friday afternoon shortly after […]
Instead of my usual routine of telling the story of the day in a long sequence of events, from either the Saturday or Sunday of the Earthtracks Wildlife Tracking Apprenticeship […]
Once the two of our crew had returned from bringing a car to the next road over, we began our journey through the Boyne Valley, North of Orangeville. I had been there before. The last time was [...]
We had just finished part of our climb up Old Baldy, maybe a quarter of the way to the top, just finished checking out some pretty clear mouse tracks, bounding […]