Posted April 29, 2013
Nice letters from a couple of students who visited Laurel Creek recently…
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 […]
Posted April 23, 2013
Mother goose on eggs… In mall parking lot…
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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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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Posted March 18, 2013
I set up my camera again at another den site. There were obvious canine prints at and about the entrance but they appeared to be too small for coyote. Instead, a Red Fox appeared (Vulpes vulpes). Coyote seldom tolerate a fox nearby so I suspect the prints I see along the hedgerow behind Wrigley […]
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Posted March 16, 2013
Owl pellets contain the indigestible remains – fur and bones – of prey eaten by owls. Mrs. Pavlove’s grade 4 class dissected some at school – they were studying food chains in the Habitats and Communities unit. This is what they had to say… Dear Mr. Rasberry, Our class dissected the owl pellets today. They […]
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