Crothers Woods, 2016 (TFN Archives)
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
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
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
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.