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Backyard Birding
Hashbrown’s Squash Garden
Camping at the Toronto Zoo
Flight of the Monarch Day
Summer Afternoon in the Sun
Friendly Visit From Nocturnal Neighbours
Squirrel Antics in the Morning
Day Trip to Haute Goat
Dragonfly
Sprayed by a Skunk!
Not a Painted Turtle
A New Friend
Squirrel Siblings
Today’s small joy: my newest writing & work companion
Today’s small joy: this lovely companion decided to hang out on my computer as I work
Couple out for a morning walk together
Baby Groundhogs in Toronto Park
Today’s back yard hangout with a friend
Today’s small joy: a little (mischievous) friend
Meeting Baby in the Park
How to be Focused and Industrious
Meet Greysie. Master of Cuteness.
Mimi’s Mama Vest
Today’s Small Joy: Morning Visit with Raccoon
Bunnies in the Morning
Baby Skunkaroos
How Hot is it Today?
Hearing the Chorus for the First Time
Reunited with Leontes
Today’s small joy: a yellow bellied sapsucker
A Birdie in the Bathtub
Morning visit with cardinal before work
Today’s small joy: my little garden ‘helpers’ ready to get to work
Today’s small joy: Tiny Batman Returns! (To fight crime on my back porch)
Babies!
Today’s small joy: a morning visit from cardinal
Kinglet’s Quick Escape
Bringing Milksnake Her Easter Dinner
Cuddles with Hashbrown the Groundhog
Who will take care of the animals?
Our Wild Neighbours
Swans Unhooked
It’s Raccoon Mating Season – And That Means Injuries
Ann Brokelman’s Toronto Wildlife Photography Safaris
The Comfort of Companions
A surprise in the mail: Pigeon Mating Dances
Peeps the baby pigeon
Sleepy This Time of Year
Bekah’s Bestiary
Bat Cuddles!
Fox in a Box
How to Hold an Owl
Bats Awake in Winter?
Ken Nicol Launches Art Career of Dusty the Squirrel
Cirque du Squirrel
Beautiful Baby Brownsnake
Opossum Fare
Great escapes!
Handling firsts
Undomesticated at the Koffler Gallery
City of Toronto Adopts First Biodiversity Strategy
Red Squirrel babies are smaller and squirmier …
Bitten by birds!
Turtle wipes her face as she eats
Book Mark: Wild City by Doug Bennet & Tim Tiner
Autumn is baby season again
Mink Sang to Me
A tiny black and yellow head looks out from between my fingers
Slapped by a pigeon! Twice!
How do you keep a snapping turtle from biting you?
Encounter with a baby vole
Great horned owl is aptly named
Raptor Season
What has blue eyes, warm feet, and is sleek black?
Book Mark: Author Lyanda Lynn Haupt
What sound does a bunny make?
First Time Catching a Gosling
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