Mist netting at the Dickson for Chickadees

Posted December 11, 2015

[wpvideo yopWVjcm]   This is a time-lapse video of me (Levi) setting up a short mist net, catching some birds, banding them, and then taking it all down again.  I love this little mist net, at only 3 meters long it is very small but very portable. Bird banding and Chickadee feeding has started up […]

Deer Jumps Fence

Posted December 1, 2015

I had the trail camera attached to a fence that is about four-and-a-half  feet tall. The momma deer jumps the fence, no problem. Then the camera shakes around as the youngsters make some kind of attempt to keep up. [wpvideo Oe7V7iY5]

Latest Laurel Creek Trail Cam Videos

Posted September 29, 2015

I have a new spot to set up the camera. There is a fence line that seems to funnel animals along it. These animals wandered by in a 48 hour period. Deer [wpvideo ZW1kTZlu] Wild Turkey [wpvideo b38Wf3Tu] Coyote [wpvideo ZYOcmNZJ]

Snapping Turtle Eggs

Posted September 25, 2015

One day this past June, two city of Waterloo workers showed up at the Laurel Creek Outdoor Education Centre. They were doing some work on Beaver Creek Road, and said that they had found an injured snapping turtle in the ditch. I put on my snapping turtle gloves, and went to have a look. I found […]

School Malaise Trap Program

Posted September 23, 2015

This week across Canada, and at two of our Outdoor/Environmental Education Centres, the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario‘s School Malaise Trap Program (SMTP) got underway. Insect collecting “malaise traps” have been set up at 60 school sites across the country, including the Blair and Camp Heidelberg OEE Centres.  After a two week period, the specimens are […]

Bee careful raccoon

Posted August 31, 2015

We have a little apiary at Laurel Creek. Even at night the honeybees are on guard. [wpvideo OICQV06U]

Snail Mail

Posted June 18, 2015

I am very lucky to work at Laurel Creek, where at the end of the day, people thank me for doing my job. Students clap. Parents shake my hand. It’s pretty sweet. I am also a big fan of the power-whoosh. A power-whoosh is a type of thank-you that involves the students  clapping their hands […]

Pond Study from the Students’ Perspective!

Posted May 28, 2015

Spring is pond study season at our Outdoor and Environmental Education Centres.  Grade 4’s study Habitats and Communities; Grade 7,  Interactions Within Ecology; and for Grade 9 it’s Aquatic Ecology. Recently Miss Siertsma’s Grade 4 class from Elgin Street P.S. came to visit me for just such an adventure.  Afterwards they wrote thank-you letters and […]

Swamp Creatures

Posted May 26, 2015

More trail cam fun… [wpvideo FEfkbiEl]More trail cam fun… [wpvideo vjHR5QNh] [wpvideo HSGiCqZy] [wpvideo P32Ac1Ex] [wpvideo yIvu1AyL]    

Laurel Creek Pictures

Posted May 20, 2015

Hi, My name is Olivia. I am Sean’s Co-op student at Laurel Creek. I wanted to share some photos I took here at the Nature Centre that I really like. A Chickadee I saw while on a walk. Leopard Frog at the pond during a pond study. A Cardinal in a tree. Mother Canada Goose […]

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