Bluebirds pop in to see us
I had quite the surprise the other day, when I chanced to look out of the back patio door and saw a lot of...
Tracks and Trees, and the Ties that Bind
by Craig I. Stevenson
The designation of the Kemptville Campus woodland area as a Forest Stewardship Council-certified forest is very welcome news. The certification adds...
Baldwin’s Birds
Good day faithful readers,
I hope that everyone is well and taking good care of themselves and those around them. April left us with a...
Remembering Blake
My name is Wesley Finner. I’m a ten-year-old boy from Kemptville, Ontario. This Remembrance Day a lot of people will go to ceremonies to...
Roadside Swathings
by Fred Schueler, Fragile Inheritance Natural History
The trick in documenting ecological change is to anticipate what’s going to change before it begins to change. When...
Idiot wind
It’s no secret that I really don’t like Facebook; for all its benefits in keeping friends and family in touch and updated, there’s so...
Hummy’s First Day May 10th
As we still sit on the see-saw of very unpredictable weather, our birds still manage to figure it out and get back to their...
An essay on the Robertson-headed Screw
by Fred Scheuler
In 1906 Peter Lymburner Robertson, wounded by the slippery slot of the primitive screwnail, invented the square recess screw, or as patriotic...
Political Gas and elections
by Colin Creasey
Well, so much for shutting down the provincial legislature until after the Federal election in the forlorn hope that Doug Ford’s policies...
Ecological issues in North Grenville: Maybe it’s time the municipality has an Environment Committee?
By Fred Schueler & Aleta Karstad
North Grenville operates under the contradictory motto of “Green and Growing,” but the issues discussed in the current municipal campaign...