On our most recent Apprenticeship Weekend, October 26-27, 2024, we spent seven hours tracking along an expanse of mud where the level of the Grand River had been lowered to […]
Atop of a Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) plant, on one of the highest leaves, we noticed a slight inward bend to the leaf, with a bit of webbing holding the […]
This year I wanted to keep birds in focus and at front of mind in my ongoing learning about wildlife tracking. I wanted to do this because birds are often […]
Another day with the tracking apprenticeship and damn, was it a blast! Our focus was how we can read the changes to the landscape based on the signs which remain. […]
On Saturday we met up at Bell’s Lake Management Area in West Grey County to go tracking with the apprenticeship crew. Marcus and I pulled up I noted the trail […]
For the past four years there has been a bit of a conundrum at the tracking apprenticeship. There has been a theory passed around to be argued and analyzed, challenged […]
Saturday Aug 13, Conditions at Dwight, Ontario : high of 25*C; low of 7*C; wind coming generally from the North, max wind 7km/h; mix of sun and cloud. This was […]
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 […]
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 […]
I watched in awe and wonder, struck by the beauty of this ordinary everyday animal whom we all have seen, likely ignored and passed by on countless occasions. I took a few photos and just [...]