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Regulars Features Number 609 February 2015 Painted bunting, photographed by Martin Chen. See page 2 REGULARS FEATURES Coming Events 19 Toronto Fungi: The Killer: Galerina autumnalis 10 Extracts from Outings Reports 8 Toronto Wildflowers: Gaultheria and Pyrolas 11 From the Archives 14 12 Grant Report: Forests Ontario’s Tree Bee 15 Keeping in Touch Program Monthly Meetings Notice 3 16 7 Grant Report: Ecospark’s Changing Currents Monthly Meeting Report Program President’s Report 6 Microplastics in Lake Ontario 17 TFN Outings 4 The People’s Climate March 18 Weather – This Time Last Year 19 TFN 609-2 Toronto Field Naturalist January 2015 Toronto Field Naturalist is published by the Toronto Field BOARD OF DIRECTORS Naturalists, a charitable, non-profit organization, the aims of which are to stimulate public interest in natural history and President & to encourage the preservation of our natural heritage. Issued Monthly Lectures Nancy Dengler monthly September to December and February to May. Past-President & Outings Margaret McRae Views expressed in the Newsletter are not necessarily those Vice-President, Nature Charles Bruce- of the editor or Toronto Field Naturalists. The Newsletter is Reserves & Outings Thompson printed on 100% recycled paper. Secretary-Treasurer Charles Crawford Communications Alexander Cappell ISSN 0820-636X Newsletter & Membership Vivienne Denton Nature Arts Joanne Doucette IT’S YOUR NEWSLETTER! Outreach Stephen Kamnitzer We welcome contributions of original writing of Webmaster Lynn Miller observations on nature in and around Toronto (up to 500 Monthly Lectures & Grants Lavinia Mohr words). We also welcome reports, reviews, poems, Audit & Finance Anne Powell sketches, paintings and digital photographs. Please include “Newsletter” in the subject line when sending by email, or on the envelope if sent by mail. MEMBERSHIP FEES $20 YOUTH (under 26) Please re-name digital photographs with the subject and $30 SENIOR SINGLE (65+) your name (abbreviations ok); scale your photos to less than $40 SINGLE, SENIOR FAMILY (2 adults, 65+) 200kb each. In the accompanying email include location, $50 FAMILY (2 adults – same address, children included) date and any interesting story or other information associated with the photograph. No HST. Tax receipts issued for donations. Send membership Deadline for submissions for March issue, Feb 3 fees and address changes to the TFN office. Please note: TFN does not give out its membership list. NEWSLETTER COMMITTEE Jenny Bull (co-editor), Vivienne Denton, Karin Fawthrop, Toronto Field Naturalists 1519-2 Carlton St, Toronto M5B 1J3 Nancy Fredenburg, Elisabeth Gladstone, Judy Marshall, Toshi Oikawa, Wendy Rothwell (co-editor). Tel: 416-593-2656 Web: www.torontofieldnaturalists.org Printing and mailing: Perkins Services Inc. Email: [email protected] GET THE JUMP ON SPRING! Saturday, February 21, 10 am to 4 pm Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence Avenue East ON THE COVER: Exhibits by more than 20 horticultural societies, Photographer Martin Chen writes: garden clubs and environmental organizations. Here is the painted bunting we saw on December Information: torontobotanicalgarden.ca/jump 25 in Oakville. The painted bunting is in the cardinal family and is a threatened bird. It is usually found in East Texas and Georgia. It If you can volunteer for TFN at this event, has an isolated range in South Florida also. It will migrate to Mexico in winter. We average please see page 10. one painted bunting per year in all of Ontario. January 2015 Toronto Field Naturalist TFN 609-3 TFN MEETING Sunday, February 1, 2014 2:30 pm Mosses, Mooses & Mycorrhizas Terry Carlton, Professor of Forest Ecology, U of T will explain how mosses, moose and fungi are linked to our forest ecosystems. VISITORS WELCOME! SOCIAL: 2:00 – 2:30 pm Room 003, Northrop Frye Hall, 73 Queen's Park Cres East Immediately southeast of Emmanuel College, south of the Museum subway station exit on the east side of Queen’s Park. Enter on either the west or north side of the building. The west entrance is wheelchair accessible. For information: call 416-593-2656 up to noon on the Friday preceding the lecture. Lecture Suggestions Upcoming TFN Lectures Please send your suggestions for speakers for the Mar 1 What the *#&! Is a Bioblitz? 2015-16 TFN monthly lecture series to the TFN office Shawn Blackburn, (contact info, page 2) Programs Coordinator, Toronto Zoo No Beverage Service Apr 12 Climate Change, Bees & Flowering Plants Because of the high cost, the TFN has stopped James Thomson & Sheila providing coffee and tea before lectures. You are Colla, Conservation welcome to bring your own and to take beverages into Biologists, U of T the lecture room. May 3 Toronto’s Urban Forests The closest local provider is Ned’s Café at 150 Charles Janet McKay, Executive St (north side). Director, LEAF TFN 609-4 Toronto Field Naturalist January 2015 TFN OUTINGS TFN events are conducted by unpaid volunteers. The club assumes no responsibility for injuries sustained by anyone participating in our activities. Children and visitors are welcome at all TFN events. Children must be accompanied by an adult. If you plan to bring children in a stroller, be aware that there may be steps or other unsuitable terrain. Please do not bring pets. To get to outings on time, check TTC routes and schedules (www.ttc.ca or 416-393-4636). Outings go rain or shine: check the weather by calling 416-661-0123 so you will know what to wear. Wear appropriate footwear for walking on trails which may be muddy, steep or uneven. Sat NATURE IMAGES SHOW Jan 31 Auditorium of S Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park Ave at Durant Ave. 1:30 - 4pm TFN members will share their images of the City’s landscapes and biodiversity. Sun LECTURE – MOSSES, MOOSES AND MYCORRHIZAS Feb 1 Speaker: Terry Carleton, Professor of Forest Ecology, University of Toronto 2:30 pm Room 003, Northrop Frye Hall, 73 Queen’s Park Cres E. See page 3. Tues TORONTO ISLANDS – Birds Feb 3 Leader: Doug Paton 9:45 am Meet at the ferry docks at the foot of Bay St in time for the 10:00 am ferry to Wards Island. Bring lunch, binoculars, water and money for ferry. Sat DISTILLERY DISTRICT – Nature Arts Feb 7 Leader: Joanne Doucette 10:00 am Meet at the southeast corner of Parliament St and Mill St. Improve your skills at rendering texture by drawing from the bricks, stone, wooden barrels and other materials in the Distillery. Bring graphite pencils and a sketchpad. + Sat. JIM BAILLIE NATURE RESERVE – Snowshoeing Feb 7 Leader: Margaret McRae 9:00 am We will car-pool to the nature reserve. Please contact leader at or at least 3 days in advance to register for car-pooling. Bring lunch, water and dress warmly. If weather conditions are poor on the 7th, the 14th is an alternative date. MORE ON ICERS: Further to last month’s item about icers (ice cleats): phone calls. MEC has several brands, Lee Valley has two, Mark’s Work Warehouse and Canadian There seem to be two basic designs. My icers, which Tire each stock one. And there are probably other work brilliantly, have metal studs to prevent places that I don’t know about. slipping, and I have seen other people with Yaktrax, which use coils rather than studs. They all come in And when the trails are really icy, maybe take a set several sizes. of ski poles on your hike for extra safety. I have done a quick web search and made a few Jane Cluver January 2015 Toronto Field Naturalist TFN 609-5 Wed COLONEL DANFORTH PARK – Nature Walk Feb 11 Leader: Miles Hearn 10:00 am Meet at the park entrance southeast of the corner of Highland Creek Dr near Colonel Danforth Trail and Lawson Rd (travelling east on Kingston Rd, immediately after the bridge over Highland Creek). Bring binoculars. Morning only. If we have a few cars we will take walkers to the south end of the park and walk back. Otherwise it will be a circular walk. Sat UPPER LAVENDER CREEK – Nature Walk Feb 14 Leader: Alexander Cappell 1:30 pm Meet at the southeast corner of Eglinton Ave W and Dufferin St, atop an interfluvial ridge, to follow the valley of mostly buried Upper Lavender Creek through the rolling hills of West Toronto to where the creek surfaces near St Clair Ave W and Keele St, close to a coffee shop. Sun MID-WINTER WALK IN RIVERDALE: HOWARD/HOLLY/MILL BROOK – Lost Rivers Walk Feb 15 Leaders: John Wilson and Joanne Doucette (author of Pigs, Flowers and Bricks: A History of Leslieville to 1920) invite 2:00 pm you to share neighbourhood scenes and stories. Meet at Queen St E and Pape Ave. From Leslieville to Playter Estates, we’ll tour the first major lost creek east of the Don. Long buried, this stream with several names once scored the landscape, creating the contours of Withrow Park. And it inflected our narratives of the East End from brick works and needle trades to coffee shops and dog parks. End at Carrot Common near Chester subway station. Joint walk with the Toronto Green Community. Tues FLORA AND FAUNA IN SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE – Nature in the City Feb 17 Leader: Ed Freeman 1:15 pm Meet at the northwest corner of University Ave and College St for a 2-hour walk ending near the Royal York Hotel. Sat HUMBER BAY PARK EAST – Birds Feb 21 Leader: Anne Powell 10:00 am Meet at the southwest corner of Park Lawn Rd and Lake Shore Blvd W for a circular walk. Morning only, flat terrain. Please dress warmly and wear footwear and cleats for icy conditions. Bring binoculars. Wed MORNINGSIDE PARK – Nature Walk Feb 25 Leader: Miles Hearn 10:00 am Meet at the bus stop on the south side of Kingston Rd for Celeste Drive, which runs north from Kingston Rd.
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