Thanks to everyone who joined our ten week nature class this fall and contributed photos, drawings and your presence at our weekly get-together. See some final contributions in this week’s slideshow and learn about the science of snow. Learning to draw and developing the skills for nature journaling has been a big part of our Read More
Thanks to everyone who shared photos and joined us today for the second last TFN Juniors fall nature class. Check out our video below and marvel at the number of cool creatures taking advantage of the unique offerings of trees! Go on an adventure of finding Mink in Taylor Creek park and wondering what they Read More
Hi TFN Juniors! Great to see you all yesterday, share your nature experiences through your photos and get tips from Siena about nature photography. Thanks, Siena! Please check out the slideshow for many late season insects that let themselves be picked up so easily and examined. At this time of year we can also look for Read More
Thanks to everyone who joined us Wednesday at TFN Juniors fall nature class. We were privileged to have Kat Lucas from the Great Lakes Program at the Metro Zoo speak to us about the Great Lakes, some of the cool species that live there and what we can do to look after them. Please check Read More
Hi Junior Naturalists! It was great to see you all at the Nature Class yesterday. Thanks for helping us create another amazing slide show by sharing your nature adventures. For the first time, we paid attention to skies — clouds, birds, butterflies, and falling leaves. And there was cool stuff going on, on the ground Read More
Hi Junior Naturalists! Thanks to everyone who joined the PollinateTO planting event, and to everyone who contributed photos to this week’s slide show. So many great sightings and nature activities! What’s inside an acorn? The white meaty part of the acorn are the embryonic leaves which will never turn green and never appear above ground. Read More
Hello Junior Naturalists! Thanks to everyone who joined us today at the TFN Juniors Class, and also to those who contributed pictures for our slideshow. Please enjoy our nature art, and learn about the Black Oak Savanna of High Park, Toronto. To learn more about the species that you might see at High Park, have Read More
Great to see everyone at our third TFN Juniors Fall Nature Class. Awesome contributions to the slide show! Participants remembered species that we’d seen before, and details of their life cycle. Congratulations! It was so fun working on our nature collages together. Please send in photos of them for next week’s slideshow. Here is a Read More
Hi Junior Naturalists! Thanks to everyone who shared your nature discoveries for this week’s slide show. Great to see everyone who was able to join us for the 2nd TNF Juniors Fall Nature Class. Have a look at the slide show to see remarkable galls, fungi, and insects. If you find some leaf galls, be Read More
Hi Everyone! So excited to get started on our Nature Club this fall. Great to see familiar faces and meet new participants as well. Hope you all had fun–please forgive our technical glitches–things will get smoother as we go. Your challenge for this week is to collect colored leaves of many different shapes and sizes. 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.