Posts Tagged ‘canada geese’
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Liberty Market Tower, Canada goose, raccoons, van attack, Minassian
- Urban Toronto looks at the excavation site of Liberty Market Tower in Liberty Village.
- blogTO notes that the Canada Goose has returned to Toronto, and that some geese have begun to defend their reclaimed territories.
- This Heather Mallick column at the Toronto Star about her accidental (and unsuccessful) impromptu stabbing of an errant raccoon is just bizarre.
- Many of the witnesses of the Yonge Street van attack last year are still struggling. Global News reports.
- The Katherine Laidlaw profileat Toronto Life of Alek Minassian, perpetrator of last year’s van attack on Yonge Street, is timely. Still: How did he come to that point in his life where that atrocity made sense?
[PHOTO] Thirty-six photos taken on the Humber, from Dundas south to Old Mill
After walking west through the Junction on Dundas Street West Thursday, as I approached the Humber I turned south, following the Humber south through the parks of Home Smith and Magwood and Étienne Brûle. The colours of the trees had only begun to turn away from green, which is fine; I still have plenty of time to return. I enjoyed the chilly afternoon, and I think the Canada geese did, too.
[PHOTO] Canada goose on the beach, Humber Bay Park East
This Canada goose, one of a flock happily ensconced just off shore a beach on the eastern spit of Humber Bay Park, seemed almost to be posing for me.
[PHOTO] Five photos of Canada Geese feeding, at Marilyn Bell Park
On Monday, I passed by a small flock of a dozen Canada geese feeding on the grass by the Lake Ontario shoreline in Marilyn Bell Park. These archosaurs were not afraid of people, even the ones that had been banded. Handsome and strong animals, I could tell that they and their kin were residents here: The grass had been very carefully nibbled.
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