Now that spring has sprung and the melt is on, it got us thinking about where that water goes. Of course, there is evaporation, and the runoff into creeks, rivers, and lakes, but that’s the surface water. What about underground? Some of the rain and snow we...
Out for a walk the other morning and what did we smell – skunk! Yep, that delicious smell of skunk was wafting around. ‘Skunks hibernate, don’t they?’ was the question and a quick ‘Yes.’ was the response. Then why the odour? Why was our skunk ‘up’? Everyone knows and...
Look at the size of that beak! Wow! This is a bird with a sharp, pointy bill! The Common Flicker, or Northern Flicker, is member of the Woodpecker family, so it makes sense that their bill is so large. These birds, as their name suggests, are common throughout North...
The Derecho in May pummelled Camp Kawartha. Entire sections of the forests were flattened! We know that nature’s way is neither good nor bad, it just is, but to we humans, it is hard to see such damage and not be impacted by the loss of such beautiful trees. It’s just...
A school group recently visited our main camp. They were a keen bunch (happy to be outside and out of the classroom I suppose), and all wonderfully behaved. It was a pleasure to have them here. One of our programs had them studying habitats, and they were out on the...
Few, if any of us here had ever heard of a ‘derecho’ but, when one hit the Camp on May 21st, on May 22nd we made a point of finding out! Derechos are not common and occur mostly in the United States in late spring/early summer. They produce walls of strong wind, and...
