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Celebrating Solstice Together, June 20

Paddle with Indigenous elder. Drumming, Songs...

Civitan Club Father’s Day breakfast, June 21

Celebrate dad with a legendary breakfast! Almonte...

Sheila Schroeder — obituary

  Schroeder,  Sheila Rose (nee Smith) Passed away at...

Science & Nature

Backyard Birds

by Brent Eades

Environment

For the Birds

Bird photography by Cheryl Baxter.

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Nature

Shady Characters

What is That?

A series about local wildlife.

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What Is That … Early Arrival?

Every year, after making it through a winter full of blustery weather, we are happy to see the reawakening of mother nature, especially at our cottage on White Lake. ...

Report on MVFN talk: “Forgotten Canoe Routes of the Canadian Shield”

April 28, 2026 The Mississippi Valley Field Naturalists (MVFN) held their annual Spring Gathering and welcomed a presentation by well-known canoeist, explorer and writer Hap Wilson.  He described the exhilarating...

Decluttering as environmental action

Emma Brown Everything we own will eventually have to go somewhere. How much stuff do you own? Do you ever think about where it will go when you no longer...
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Backyard Birds

by Brent Eades

Environment

For the Birds

Bird photography by Cheryl Baxter.

Green Talk

Nature

Shady Characters

What is That?

A series about local wildlife.

The birds are coming, and their artistic birdhouses

by Glenda Jones With five weeks to go for entries to the Birdhouse Blowout, many people are sharpening the saw and finding the paint to...

Ten Years of Environmental Destruction in Ontario: Plastic Pollution

Looking Back in Despair (Part 5) by Theresa Peluso So far, in this series Looking Back in Despair, I have explained how, over the last 10...

What Is That … Pale Purple Petal?

These days when relaxing after cross-country skiing or snowshoeing, we often find our minds turning optimistically to the upcoming cottage season.  We love to...

Screws, nails and creativity

by Glenda Jones How’s your birdhouse coming along? It is still a pile of scrap board and a handful of nails? Have you nearly finished...

Lanark family business makes eco-friendly coffins

Earthbound Coffins makes handcrafted, eco-friendly coffins from Lanark County timber. We use locally sourced materials and suppliers. We even make the rope handles together...

What is that … Skimmer?

A large number of the dragonflies we see at White Lake belong to the skimmer family ... a family that likes to be near...

Backyard Birds: February 6 2021

by Brent Eades Another in my occasional series of bird photos from my yard. Given I've been working at home for almost a year now,...

Field Naturalists still seeking artistic birdhouses

A REMINDER: We are calling on the adults and children of our community to create artistic birdhouses to be auctioned off at the birdhouse...

“Artistic birdhouse auction” is coming in April

Prizes for the birdhouses earning the top bids in each of four categories! Proceeds to Mississippi Mills Field Naturalists Cliff Bennett Scholarship Fund Find out how...

What Is That … Fungus?

We are frequently amazed by the vast array of fungi that make their above-ground appearances at different times in our yard and in the...

What is that … Beast from the East?

Some of the naming conventions related to wildlife biology are perplexing, both the English and the Latin/scientific names.  For us the simpler the better,...

Senator tours Almonte project to discuss regenerative soil efforts

Scott Hortop presents benefits of innovative method of composting leaves December 16, 2020 / Almonte, ON – On Friday, the Honourable Senator Rob Black...

Birdhouse blowout is on its way!

The winter weather may be for the birds, but there’s more for the birds coming soon.  The Mississippi Valley Field Naturalists, and Gilligallou Bird...

Backyard birds, December 16 2020

by Brent Eades One benefit of the strangeness of 2020 is that I've been working from home since last March -- which means I have...
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