Magwood Park, 2017 (TFN Archives)
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Hi Folks, Great to see you all at the TFN Juniors’ Nature Class today. Thanks to everyone for sharing your nature adventures with us and contributing photos, art and information to the Slideshow. In our dramatic reading, you were all awesome as the Fawn, the Doe, the Buck and the Wolf. And you picked up Read More
Karen Sun, Parks Planner from the City of Toronto, introduces elementary & junior high school students to some of her favourite plants during a walk in Crothers Woods. Originally livestreamed on May 4, 2021. Read More
Thanks to everyone who contributed photos, and artwork or joined us at our fourth Nature class of Spring 2021. We shared in each others’ sightings of early spring migrants–the Killdeer, a White-throated sparrow and a Hermit Thrush. We also saw Great Blue Herons out at Kortright, sitting on their nests, and switching off with their Read More
Thanks to everyone who joined us for the class today and contributed art work, photos, bird song recordings and enthusiasm. Great to see your photos and drawings of tadpoles, mining bees, early spring ephemerals and birds. Wonderful to see you all and to have a look at your drawings at the end! Ken Vogan gave Read More
Thanks to everyone who shared photos and joined us for our second zoom nature class of Spring 2021. So awesome to be able to come along on your nature outings through the experiences you share in the opening discussion and the photos you contribute to the slideshow. I always learn so much. Spring is progressing Read More
With some four-hundred identified species of wildflower, shrub, and tree to enjoy, and deep history stretching back to the earliest days of Toronto (York), this might be the best fifteen minute walk our city has to offer. Distance: 600m, circular routeDifficulty: Easy (paved path, mostly flat. One short staircase – see Waypoint #6 below)Washrooms: None Read More
Hello everyone and thanks for adding photos to our very first slideshow of the Spring 2021 TFN Jrs Zoom Nature class. Please keep it up–we love sharing what you have seen in nature that week. At the class we dissected ‘winter weeds’, the stalks remaining standing at the end of the winter. We were detectives, Read More
Welcome to our final winter blogpost. Thanks again to everyone who shared amazing sightings with us. March is a wonderful month for waterfowl as the migrants that wintered on the Atlantic coast are passing through Toronto, while our own over-wintering ducks are still here. We are also seeing the earliest songbird migrants–special sparrows, that don’t Read More
The Ontario Invasive Plant Council (OIPC) is offering a virtual workshop on Best Management Practices for dealing with Garlic Mustard! Workshop is two, 2-hour classes, and will be run twice in April. Sign up now Read More
When Nina-Marie Lister’s garden blew up the media in 2020, many TFNers shook their heads in dismay. The City of Toronto had just spent years drafting and passing its official Pollinator, Ravine, and Biodiversity Strategies, and yet Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 489, an antiquated bylaw meant to wag a scolding finger at those Torontonians who Read More
Toronto Field Naturalists wishes to acknowledge this Land through which we walk. For thousands of years, the Land has been shared by the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe. Toronto is situated on the Land within the Toronto Purchase, Treaty 13, the traditional and treaty Lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is also part of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum, a covenant agreement between Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Wendat peoples and allied nations to peaceably share the land and all its resources. Today, the Land is home to peoples of numerous nations. We are all grateful to have the opportunity to continue to care for and share the beauty of this Land.