![]() ![]() One of Doug Ford’s latest ideas for a “lockdown” was to close playing fields in parks. But we are also counting the smaller animals like raccoons, skunks, hares, etc, hoping to be a source of data for future projects”. We have people doing research on foxes, and coyotes, how they use the city and their role in the urban environment, as well as potential disease transmission. I sent an email to the address given below the camera and got a response from Tiziana Gelmi Candusso: “We monitor urban wildlife at several locations across the region, and collect animal sightings for projects at the University of Toronto, at the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department. Water had been pouring down the access road for several days and forming “Cedarvale Lake” in the cricket pitch, when City repair crews appeared to repair the damage:Ĭamera records animal movements for UofT projectsĪ camera recording a camera! I recently took this photo of a camera attached to a tree in the park: Water leak at TTC entrance opposite dog park repaired The intention is to grow oak saplings that can be used to replace invasive trees such as Norway and Manitoba maples and European buckthorn on the ravine slopes. We have to find out the City’s intentions for this plot and propose one of our oak sapling nurseries: We may have also acquired a potential 5th nursery on City land in front of a house where a Norway maple had been removed, leaving an open planting area. Some or all of the saplings in some plantings had been bitten or broken off. Here is Eric holding one of the saplings with a bud at a planting in a small glade on a scilla-covered slope: On 20th April, Eric Davies and I inspected the 4 oak sapling nurseries in the gardens of houses on Heathdale Rd. Inspection of Heathdale oak sapling plantings ![]() By the time I got to the ravine, there was very little snow left to photograph: On 21st April, we had a very brief, one-day return to winter. There is one right beside the entrance to the Community Garden: There are 16 smaller ones in a semi-circle and several larger ones: Our trees, also donated by the Japanese government, are less well-known than those at High Park. There was still snow on the ground when our sakuras (Japanese cherry trees) decided to blossom: The next ephemeral to appear was trout lily first a solitary one: Sadly, the next time I passed that spot, they had completely disappeared. When I took this photo next day, the weather was much colder and they had furled up. The day before the photo was taken, they were in full flower, but I did not have my camera. The first of the native “spring ephemerals” appeared recently – blood root – so called because of the colour of its root: He noted that the Norway maple is one of the main causes, as it is toxic to native trees and plant species around it. There was a photo of Eric on the Cedarvale ravine slope and the article included his comments on the decline of the native ecosystem, including native plant species. On Friday 23rd April, the Toronto Globe and Mail had a front page photo of Cedarvale Ravine, looking east from the Glen Cedar footbridge, and a centre page folio called “Urban habitats are in trouble”. Globe and Mail features Cedarvale and Eric Davies
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