Blogs from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America - page 31

My birding/summer adventures blog is back! Tomorrow I leave for job training on the shores of Lake Erie. I'm going to be doing flight shows and educational displays with raptors for the Canadian Raptor Conservancy. In June I'll be sent to work in Winnipeg at the Assinibione Park Zoo. My summer bird adventures started last Saturday, with an early-rising trip to Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens and Dundas Marsh with Alison. A beautiful male Common Yellowthroat was my first warbler of the year. We also saw lots of male and female Yellow-rumped warblers, yellow warblers, Palm warblers, a Spotted Sandpiper, lots of double-crested cormorants, Brown Creeper, and we heard a Red-bellied woodpecker. Later, in the gardens, we had a Sharp-shinned hawk fly by us, a male Black-throated Blue Warbler show of very closely for us, and encountered ... read more

Throughout the years the City of Toronto has developed into a highly populated multiculturalism city within the Southern Ontario Region, and is considered the Capital of Southern Ontario to some. One may find so many multi-cultural events & festivities. As well, as many neighborhoods have taken major parts in the contribution in the formation of the city to what many of us know of today, and most likely will continue to evolve for many more years on end!!!! The City of Toronto offers a vast arrangement of activities that range from dinning, to entertainment and right up to the nightlife scenes & much much more that can cater to almost every age & generation within today's society of age. When one steps into the streets of Toronto, one could find some of the finest dashing & ... read more

Since the middle of March a small 'flat' has been rented. After much cleaning, scraping and scrubbing with SOS, Comet, Steel Wool and a Sharp Knife, the little space is somewhat cleaner. If the carpet is as cleaned as the stove was a redo with super carpet cleaning machine will be required. 'The Flat' is in a Presbytirian senior apartment complex of 178 units. Residence range in age from 58 to infinity and come in a variety of skin shades that would challenge the rainbow. Many friendly people have introduced themselves and have been helpful in sharing knowledge about the routine and rules of the place. Located in Scarboro at Eglinton and Danforth Road it is just 4km directly south of the YMCA at Scarboro Centre.The bus stop is directly in front of the building and ... read more

Hi Friends and Family, Carll and I both arrived safely in Toronton although Carl was a day late and a Sterling short. Air Canada was acting up and blocked pets on the flight. As most of you know, it's always better to take Westjet unless your flight is free on points. :) Beth picked me up from the airport and we headed down to Niagara Falls. As it's not the season, a lot of the tourist options were shut down like the Maid of the Mist and the tunnels behind the falls. Beth had two main priorities - breakfast and the Hershey Store. I made a new friend outside the store (see photo). We took a bunch of photos at the falls highlighting the great time Beth and I had and how happy she was to ... read more

Geo: 43.6485, -79.3854To set the stage, I'd have to confess to an almost ambivalent attitude toward climbing Kili (or any other mountain for that matter). Although I admire the frothing enthusiasm that many people have for climbing and hiking, it's just not an inner child that I've been able to get in touch with. DH and I have climbed smaller mountains before to see lava rivers, explosive volcanoes, gorillas, etc. but for the most part the climbing was a necessary evil preceding a truly spectacular sight. For DH however (although far from a climbing fanatic), Kilimanjaro has always been a bucket list item- we were in the north of Tanzania some years ago and it was all I could do to persuade her to skip Kili in favour of some of the best safari parks in ... read more