Instincts for Survival

Posted March 22, 2012

Wrigley Corners recently went high tech with a 3G iPad. Hespler Public is here right now Playing Instincts for Survival. Here is a photo of some students running for their off-springs lives.

Maple Music

Posted March 18, 2012

I am holding a CD release concert for my album, “Songs from the Sugar Bush” at the Princess Cinema, Sunday, April 15th 2:00 pm.  Poster below.  You can e-mail me for tickets at kellyandsean@rogers.com. It will be family-friendly. I have also reserved a room at the Huether Hotel for socializing afterward.  Hope to see you there!  Sean.

Spring Things…

Posted March 17, 2012

I suspect we are being lulled into thinking this week that spring is here for good, when, in fact, we are likely to see the return of colder weather, and perhaps even some – well, you know – the white stuff. But the warmer weather has certainly brought prominence to several species we associate with […]

Hello from the Sugar Shack!

Posted March 14, 2012

I am sitting in the sugar shack right now, after just getting the fire going to full-tilt. I brought my wireless router out to the shack and thought it might be neat to be the first to send a ‘sweet’ blog from the shack : ) To date, there has been 52L, but with the […]

Amphibians! Should we be surprised?

Posted March 8, 2012

Out with a class today and we encountered two different types of Amphibian. A Spring Peeper (Psuedacris crucifer) was found hopping through the leaf litter, not ‘peeping’ at all. The big X on his back however clearly identified this tiny frog. The other amphibian was a Grey Tree Frog (Hyla versicolor), half buried in the […]

Maple Syrup – First Boil of 2012

Posted March 5, 2012

We fired up the evaporator at the Camp Heidelberg Outdoor Education Centre today to start the maple syrup season.  It was also our first day of classes, and it isn’t often that we have enough sap to boil this early in the season.  The trees were tapped last week, we did collections of about 300-400 […]

The Sugar Bush is Just Awesome

Posted February 24, 2012

On Monday, we will tap the trees at Laurel Creek for the start of our maple syrup season. Tuesday, we tap at Camp Heidelberg.  This will be my 13th season as a “sugarmaker.” I also play a little guitar on the side, and I had written a few songs about life in the sugar bush. Seems a […]

Warm Winter

Posted February 23, 2012

Last week I had students from the grade 4-8 enrichment program participate in an exercise on climate change. Students and parents were asking if I thought this warm winter was a symptom of climate change. Good question! Climate change is reflected in a rise in the Earth’s air and ocean temperatures that are averaged world-wide. In […]

What Stew at Laurel Creek

Posted February 9, 2012

This week, grade 7 students from Three Bridges Public School came out for a Fur Trade program. Their teacher Mr. Stocco brought a homemade stew for the class to eat at lunch. We heated it up over a fire just like real trappers! Mr. Stocco called it, “bear stew,” but it tasted like beef. It also had cabbage, […]

This ‘n That…

Posted January 27, 2012

Congratulations to Sean and Al as the number of bird species they record at their OEE Centres grows.  They have a long way to go to catch up to the birder mentioned in a previous post who, in his Big Year of Birding quest, claims to have seen 120 species as of January 26th . […]

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