Sometimes you hear a cacophony of sounds when you are out birding in spring. Learn bird calls, and you can find your favourite bird, or that unusual bird, you aren’t used to seeing. Once you know bird calls and songs, you will know which bird to chase down with your binoculars!! This Sonogram drawing game Read More
Mining bees are the earliest bees to emerge in Toronto. Both males and females spend the winter deep underground. It can be very chilly in mid-April when they dig their way to the surface to begin the new season. The female has several challenges ahead of her if she is to launch a new generation Read More
A lot of us have been out poking around in ravines, looking for spring flowers–the trilliums are up!!–or tree buds in all their lovely variety. A creature that has been buried in mud all winter and is out braving the cold, way earlier than a lot of other cold-blooded creatures is the Red-backed Salamander. What 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.