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]
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 […]
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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 […]
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Posted August 31, 2015
We have a little apiary at Laurel Creek. Even at night the honeybees are on guard. [wpvideo OICQV06U]
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 […]
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 […]
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Posted May 26, 2015
More trail cam fun… [wpvideo FEfkbiEl]More trail cam fun… [wpvideo vjHR5QNh] [wpvideo HSGiCqZy] [wpvideo P32Ac1Ex] [wpvideo yIvu1AyL]
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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Posted May 18, 2015
We spent this past weekend, the Victoria Day long weekend, in Tobermory at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula. There was still ice on our bay, and several kilometers out into Lake Huron, just three weeks ago. It’s gone now, but that cold water has a great influence on the local weather. We had single […]
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Posted May 14, 2015
On May 9th, people all over the world participated in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s fundraiser Global Big Day, tallying all the bird species that could be identified in one 24 hour period. Globally, over half the world’s know species were tallied (incredible!), and the Cornell team of crack birders, on the ground in Panama, […]
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