Doris McCarty Trail in Gates Gully in Fall

Notes From Junior Naturalists Event On Nov 9th

Thanks to everyone who joined us for a lovely outing to the Doris McCarthy Trail. Vannessa brought her Dad’s wonderful fossils, collected from all over Ontario. A special thanks to Geologist Ed Freeman, who explained that these creatures once lived in a shallow tropical sea that covered Ontario when it was at the equator! Some Read More

Red oak branch with acorns

Notes From Junior Naturalists Event On Oct 19th

Thanks to everyone who joined us for an exciting adventure exploring Garden seeds, tree seeds and dissecting acorns! Thanks to Monica and Vanessa for your leadership and input!! We played charades (wow, you guys were good!) to remind ourselves how seeds are dispersed. The Red Oak is Toronto’s unofficial ‘tree’. This is a year of Read More

Monarch butterfly on Black Eyed Susan

Notes From Junior Naturalists Event On Sept 21st

Thanks to everyone who made it out to the TFN Juniors Butterfly and Hawk event at Rosetta McClain yesterday. We were blessed with perfect weather for enjoying the still very beautiful garden. In our opening activities, we had a chance to handle three types of hawk wings, and learn how Ontario butterflies, other than Monarchs Read More

Todmorden Mills Wildflower Preserve

Notes From Junior Naturalists Event On Aug 10th

Thanks to those of you who made it out to the Todmorden Mills Planting event. It was a perfect sunny August day! Thanks also to Paula and Steve, who hosted us and made it such a special time. We are so grateful that you have made Todmorden Mills an amazing place where nature is  restored Read More

Notes From Junior Naturalists Event On July 13th

Thanks to everyone who was able to make it out to our Beewatch Event on the Meadoway July 13th. We enjoyed a wonderful sunny, and windy morning, and saw a variety of insects including butterflies, beetles and grasshoppers, as well as bees. A special thanks to the TRCA for hosting us and to the Meadoway Read More

City of Toronto Public Stewardship Planting

Notes From Junior Naturalists Event On June 8th

Thanks to all the Juniors’ families who were able to come out and help the City plant over 400 trees at the G Ross Lord Planting event today! The weather was perfect, and we had a wonderful time, working and playing in that lovely park. I just pulled the tree nametags from my pocket–it looks Read More

Cliff swallow at Tommy Thompson Park

Notes From Junior Naturalists Event On May 11th

Great to share Toronto’s Birding Festival at the Leslie St. Spit with all the Juniors’ families that were able to make it out!! We had perfect weather and a lovely birding walk. Wild Ontario brought in the American Kestril, Great Horned Owl, Rough-legged Hawk, and Red-tailed Hawk, for us to view–and pet?! On our hike Read More

Skunk cabbage

Notes From Junior Naturalists Event On April 13th

Thanks to everyone who joined at James Gardens, for a beautiful hike south through Lambton Woods and across the Humber River swollen with spring run-off. It was warm enough for the Eastern Plasterer Bee to be out foraging on snowdrops and catkins, and swarming around their nest holes in the sandy Hydro cut. We saw Read More

Robin's Nest in Cottonwood Flats

Notes From Junior Naturalists Event On March 16th

Great day at G Ross Lord learning how to identify native trees in winter, and how birds and other wildlife make use of local habitat for constructing nests and surviving the cold. Special thanks to TFN members Michael Donnan and Monica Radovski for joining us and making it a such a fun day. Keep on Read More

Bird bones at Tommy Thompson Park

Notes From Junior Naturalists Event On Feb 9th

The Scientists in School BONE ZONE workshop was a blast thanks to all of the Junior Naturalists who joined us to study bones and dissect owl pellets! Keep on learning with the following: Virtual Owl Pellet Dissection Kidwings Explores | Barn Owls: Home Sweet Home (YouTube) Owl Shows Off Silent Flight Superpower (YouTube) How Does 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.