With a little help from my friends…

Posted May 6, 2013

Last week five grade 7 classes from Lester B Pearson PS visited the Blair OEE Centre studying Ecology.  We did a stream study of Blair Creek – a Class 1 cold-water stream – and a study of microscopic pond organisms.  That was the official itinerary.  With several consecutive days of beautiful weather, Spring literally exploded […]

An avian update

Posted May 2, 2013

Sean and I have been watching carefully and keeping our ears to the sky over the past four months to see who can detect the greatest number of bird species on our respective work properties. We thought we would provide an update before the influx of species that are about to return from their wintering […]

We’ve Got Mail

Posted April 29, 2013

Nice letters from a couple of students who visited Laurel Creek recently…

Revolution

Posted April 24, 2013

Here is a movie trailer for “Revolution,” an environmental movie that aims to be the most-watched environmental film ever.  It is by Rob Stewart, the same director that filmed “Sharkwater,” a movie about the demise of sharks in the oceans. I plan to go… Now showing at Empire Theatres, 135 Gateway Drive, Kitchener. 6:50 pm. Down by Sportsworld. Check […]

Canada Goose

Posted April 23, 2013

Mother goose on eggs… In mall parking lot…

Sky Dance

Posted April 22, 2013

“He flies in low from some neighboring thicket, alights on the bare moss, and at once begins the overture: a series of queer throaty peents spaced about two seconds apart, and sounding much like the summer call of the nighthawk.” This is how Aldo Leopold, in A Sand County Almanac, begins his poetic description of […]

Ice storm

Posted April 14, 2013

The Grand River Conservation Authority put out a warning on Friday for their staff to stay out of forests.  They warned that trees might experience “sudden catastrophic failure.” Here is evidence of that. We had 5 trees in our sugar bush come down at Laurel Creek. All 5 were close together, and had their roots pulled out of the ground. […]

A Sweet Weekend

Posted April 1, 2013

Well, the Easter weekend has come and gone and it was highly successful in terms of maple syrup production.  Boiling time over three days beginning Friday at 8 am and ending Sunday at 9 pm was 36 hours and netted 90 litres of syrup.  With sap coming in from the trees at 2% sugar the […]

Easter in the Sugar Bush

Posted March 28, 2013

The Easter weekend begins tomorrow, and it looks to be a busy one in the sugar bush.  We’ve had a cold spring and hadn’t had a run of sap since March 13.  Things have warmed up marginally  this week – still in the low single digits – but enough to get some sap moving up […]

Return of the Outdooredguys

Posted March 21, 2013

Al and I purchased a new stainless steel storage tank for the Camp Heidelberg sugar bush and it arrived from Quebec this week.  It will replace an older galvanized tank, and has a greater volume – about 1300 litres.  With that extra sap goes more weight, and the raised platform it sits on needed some […]

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