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Trail Talk 263 June 7th 2023

Near the end of May I finally saw a yellow swallowtail butterfly and also saw six frogs (two at least were green frogs) in the small pond at the edge of the Maitland River. Dragon flies were also finally back in full force on the Hullett Sugar Bush blue trail,more…

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Trail Talk 262 May 31st 2023

I went on two bird watching outings, the first with Roger Goddard where we spent most of the time on or near the Menesetung bridge. There was a female common merganser with eleven ducklings in tow, some of which were catching a ride on the mother’s back. Other swimmers onmore…

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Trail Talk 261 May 24th 2023

On May 15th five of us (Janie van Essen, Brian McCulloch, John Hepburn , Susan Ethelston and Patrick Capper)  continued our removal of garlic mustard on the GART, West of Lucknow Line filling five large garbage bags.  While pulling up some garlic mustard at the edge of our property Imore…

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Trail Talk 260 May 17th 2023

On Thursday May 4th five of us tackled the garlic mustard on the GART/G2G between Lucknow Line and Sharpes Creek Line, collecting about  40 lbs which were put into black garbage bags. While returning to our vehicles we saw an Eastern phoebe,( a new species for me), three garter snakesmore…

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Trail Talk 259 May 10th 2023

By the time you read this, an attack on the garlic mustard has been made on the GART/G2G trail between Lucknow Line and Sharpes Creek Line.  While checking for the garlic mustard on a sunny afternoon I saw 35 Midland painted turtles at the ponds just East of Lucknow Line.more…

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Trail Talk 258 May 3rd 2023

The cooler weather has meant that I have not seen new species of wildflower recently but flowers such as white trilliums and marsh marigolds are now much more abundant. Again on Tuesday April 25th there was an excellent turnout of 23 Tuesday Trompers  who hiked the Bannockburn Conservation area trails.more…

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Trail Talk 257 April 26th 2023

April weather can be full of surprises and this year was no exception, with a record breaking heat wave quickly followed by some freezing conditions. The hot weather brought out more wildflowers including white and red trilliums, dutchman’s-breeches, wild ginger, blue cohosh and large flowered bellwort all seen before Aprilmore…