Starting with a “Good morning Everyone” from a corner of the mead. The best time of the day to be outside … Melissa Harrison ( a fine English nature writer) slipped this message into a recent Substack of hers … I wrote about counting in all my most precious birds, like the cuckoo, the local nightingales and our village swifts, and about our duty – yes, duty, I think, these days – to turn our gardens into insect incubators, while there’s still time to reverse the
If that was the 9th when you spotted that Heron, perhaps it was looking for some shelter inland as the 8th was a very windy day on the lake. I once saw a heron in my back yard up near Victoria years ago during a very violent summer storm.
If that was the 9th when you spotted that Heron, perhaps it was looking for some shelter inland as the 8th was a very windy day on the lake. I once saw a heron in my back yard up near Victoria years ago during a very violent summer storm.
Could be - I remember there were several blustery days about then
Have yet to see a single butterfly here in urban Toronto, let alone a Monarch. Last year, I counted five Monarchs. They are in decline.
Many insects are in decline - here we usually see the Monarchs in the second half of summer. Don’t lose hope.