Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
UP BEFORE FIVE – THE FAMILY FARM December 2011/January, 2012 issue My wife has often accused me of taking an interminable length of time to complete projects. Such was the case with a book I just had published two months ago. My mother…
HANDLING THE FOUL AND THE LOATHSOME August/September, 2011 issue The bizarre object we were now staring at in the water was a cluster of Bryozoan, and it floated, half submerged, held in place by a sunken branch to which it appeared tethered. It was…
IDENTIFYING BY EAR NOT ALWAYS EASY, BUT GETTING BETTER May/June, 2011 issue After almost 40 years of listening to the recorded songs of over 300 species of birds known to occur in this area, I am pleased that I can now identify by…
FROGS, TOADS AND OTHER THINGS March/April, 2011 issue Those who watched the classic film “Deliverance” from the early 1970s will not soon forget the disturbing scenes from this epic about four canoeists paddling down the wild Cahulawassee River in Georgia. The movie, however,…
LIFE AFTER DEATH IN THE FOREST December, 2010/January, 2011 issue The screech owl peeked out at us when I tapped the hollow tree, then sank back down into the darkness of the cavity. At this time of the year, the bird was likely…
O U R N A T U R A L H E R I T A G E WARING’S CREEK – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Thursday, June 03, 2010 Picton Gazette readers will recall a special 15-week series that ran in place of the…
WHEN TREES BECOME BARE IN SUMMER July/August, 2010 issue Moneymore Road resident Lawrence Boyle had been looking forward to this day for some months. After a scheduled meeting of the Quinte Chapter of the Eastern Ontario Woodlot Association at a hall in Marlbank,…
STRANGE THINGS IN THE SKY May/June, 2010 issue “I don’t know who else to ask about this, and I really enjoy reading your columns. I live just outside Tamworth, on a hill with great views in all directions. Today at 5:30 I saw the…
THE ART OF SPLITTING HARES February/March, 2010 issue There are cottontail rabbits at my bird feeding station again this winter, and they aren’t here to drop off Easter eggs either on April 4th. They appeared in the darkness of early morning only moments after…
WHERE TRAINS ONCE RUMBLED December 2009/January 2010 issue Last year I picked up an episode of The Cisco Kid and a package of Blackjack gum at Ormsby. The source was a curio shop, located in this small community west of Highway 62 near the…