Happy for everyone who was able to join us for the 6th TFN Juniors Nature Class yesterday. Please find below a slideshow of photos of amazing things going on in nature right now. Wonderful to celebrate the songbird migration with Marina’s photos, and we loved how our class members were able to pinpoint differences between the Read More
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
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
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
What a great winter with an extended cold period and lots of snow that stayed around! Great to see the TFN Juniors exploring Toronto’s green spaces and finding the cool creatures that live in our ravines. Please have a look at the video below, to share in their discoveries. Part way through the video there Read More
Great to be connecting with all of you again. Thanks for your help in creating this blog post with many interesting sightings by all of you. Spending time in nature has been refreshing for us during this Covid crisis! Find out below what others have been experiencing! We all want to become better naturalists. It Read More
Hello TFN Juniors, Wishing you a nature-filled holiday season together with your closest family! Please check out our final 2020 Slideshow where we investigate creatures that are still out and about on the cold, snowy days of winter. We also remember some great TFN Juniors’ winter nature excursions of the past three years. Winter is Read More
The Toronto Field Naturalists wish to acknowledge this land through which we walk. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississauga of the Credit River. Today it is still the home to many Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to be on this land.