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The white flowers that the bees are on are White Upland Asters (Aster ptarmicoides)

It sounded a little like the sound in your video

@@wademartin8822 Cool! When the ravens moved into this area a few years ago, the local crows weren't too happy and some of them even started imitating them!

Glad to hear it! There are so many of them in this neck of the woods now! Some of our local crows have begun to imitate their calls. Look for the wedge-shaped tail when they're in flight; they also tend to glide more than crows (who flap a lot).

Yep! That's the seed we got from OWS, too. I've transplanted about half a dozen of the larger ones out already. It appears to be very useful against creeping bellflower.

I love the noise they make that sounds like water gurgling in a stream. I've also noticed that the local crows have started to imitate the ravens...smart birds!

That's the thing -- for some reason, we've never planted coneflower! And even if we had, it'd be in the meadow, halfway across the park. The city or province did some seeding back there after they widened the Queensway, so even though they also brought in non-natives in the soil, perhaps they used a native seed mix. There are only a few specimens, so there's also the possibly that someone did some seeding in there. But another good spot to get next year's crop of seeds!

Hampton.

One of the "goat paths" made that goes to the Ridge.

Bugs are so cool. Some are more evil than others 🙂

Yeah, that ramp was a bit of a death trap for pedestrians. But they didn't plant tree out of the goodness of their heart; it was a requirement of the contract and it was done badly in many spots. In nearby Hampton, you could pull the trees right out of the soil a year after they were "planted." No one has been back to check these trees or unstake them since 2019 despite emails to the Ministry of Transport and the MPP. Two trees planted by Kingsway United (also provincial) won't make it -- fabric they used to stake the trees has grown into the bark.

I was surprised to find so much in it -- I often check it and it's been fine up until now. I didn't check the one at the Staircase, but I've never found anything in that one. I'm thinking that a more permanent solution is to move it further back, closer to the fence. People use it because it's right there (plus the lid was off it when I arrived), so maybe it's a question of making it more difficult to get to.

Possibly it would help reduce access but also it will get less sun to help it decompose. However, I've not been actively cultivating it as a composter, I admit.@@friendsofcarlingtonhampton

Laziness? Ignorance of the consequences? Your guess is as good as mine. There is so much open greenspace, grass that could take the salt, but instead they just pile wherever they feel like it. Reported to City & NCC.

That toilet has been there for years...the City doesn't patrol for illegal dumping unless pushed. It did work for us on the other side of the park, but there are more eyes on that section.

It's one of the paths into the lower West Woods that are off the street that runs parallel to Woodward about a 5-minute walk west of the City yard. Because no one polices illegal dumping, all sorts of people use this place. We did manage to stop dumping at the Raven entrance with the City's help, so perhaps we need another concerted City effort.

Many thanks! We're not great with video yet but with a better camera now it should get better!

@@friendsofcarlingtonhampton I think your video is very good! 🙂

No one said it'd be easy but it has to be done and we did it. The job was done by several adults and about half a dozen 11 and 12 year olds. We planted shrubs and trees, and overseeded with native wildflowers and grasses, and did another round of buckthorn weeding this spring. It's working. Don't knock it till you've tried it.

Honestly would probably be a breeze to use for a man over 200 pounds. Just put your weight into it and it’ll put anything up

I was going through all the videos and saw that this was never got uploaded publicly...better late than never, eh?

These are the same ones I used for the past several weeks to ID trout lily colonies (I just changed the labels), so they're still hanging in there.