Scarborough Bluffs, 2017 (TFN Archives)
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Hello folks! Thanks to everyone who contributed to this week’s blog post. I felt that I was along on those beautiful fall outings. How exciting that our Toronto ravines are providing forage for both songbirds in migration, and native bees. Short on provisions — now is the time to gather hickory nuts, and make zeresk! Read More
TFN Members are invited to review our most recent Financial Statements (June 30, 2020), prepared by Peter W. Hogg, Chartered Professional Accountant. These include our statements of financial position, fund operations and cash flows. Download 2020 TFN Financial Statement Read More
September 13, 2020, saw TFN’s first ever virtual lecture, “The Endangered Redside Dace: Can we recover it before it disappears?” presented to us by Erling Holm, Assistant Curator of Fishes at the Royal Ontario Museum. Erling’s presentation, and the Q&A period that followed, were recorded for the enjoyment of those unable to attend: Our Zoom Read More
Back in January we posted that the City had agreed to help protect what may well be the oldest and most historically-important tree in Toronto by purchasing a residential property on Coral Gable Dr., with the intention of converting the land in to a parkette. The catch? By Council’s direction, completion of the sale is Read More
Hi Junior Naturalists, Thanks to everybody who contributed photos for this week’s slide show. Cool that we are continuing to see lots of fungi and insects as the fall progresses. Featured in this slide show is one of our TFN Juniors’ leaders, Nick Ypelaar. Nick spent the summer as a park interpreter at Awenda Park Read More
Thanks to everyone who shared their observations with us this week. Hope you are having fun walks to school, recesses and outdoor time after school!! Nature is with us, in our streets and in our schoolyards! Please have a look at this slideshow of our observations. Also, at the end of the slideshow, we have Read More
Hello Junior Naturalist Friends, What an exciting week you all had in Toronto, Uxbridge, the Grand River and Algonquin Park!! We continued to experience our fellow creatures–on lakes, in forests, and around our homes. Thanks for sharing your photos so we can enjoy them together. Our parks and Greenbelt protected countryside are special places where motorized Read More
Hello Junior Naturalists! This week’s theme is lakes! There are different types of lake habitats, all of which are important to sustaining aquatic plant and animal diversity. Canada has the most lakes of any country in the world, and it’s important that we take good care of them. Toronto was built on the shore of Read More
Hello Junior Naturalists! This week’s theme is forests! We are very lucky to live in a city with a large urban forest. Toronto’s tree canopy covers about 28% of the city, which is much more than most other major cities in the world! Forests provide many ecological, economical, and social benefits. They give us oxygen, Read More
Hello Junior Naturalists! This week’s theme is meadows! A meadow is an open area that is dominated by herbaceous plants like grasses and wildflowers. Meadow habitats provide shelter, water and food to many animals, including birds, bees and butterflies. Meadows also help us by absorbing water during floods and reducing erosion. Meadows are hard to 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.