Just wanted to let you know that we are starting our school plantings again for the year, May 26th and 27th at West Royalty Elementary School. If you want to come out for even part of a day, they are great events and I think you'd enjoy yourself. Give me a call at 651-2575. Thanks, Gary

February 3, 2008

A while back, the city of Charlottetown created a new plan for the ecological integrity of Victoria Park, the crown jewel of the city's parks. The plan was writen by Gary and the city hired someone to help make this plan a reality. She has made a couple of really wonderful booklets describing the restoration project and the flora and fauna of the park. The booklets are in Adobe Reader (PDF) format. The plan and booklets are available at this webpage.

http://www.macphailwoods.org/victoriapark-plan.html

I have decided to move the photo gallery over to this blog. I have already started to migrate pictures over and some of the gallery's are ready for viewing. First up, some pictures from the nursery.

Please follow this link.

http://www.macphailwoods.org/blog/image/tid/37

Fiep de Bie was out the morning of May 25 and saw:
2 Magnolia Warblers at different locations
Northern Parula
Black and White Warbler
Black-throated Green
Ruffed grouse
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Boreal Chicadee
Ovenbird

also, there are tree swallows checking out the nest box right in the centre of the nursery and lots of hairy and downy woodpeckers, northern flickers and yellow-bellied sapsuckers.

Out at the homestead recently and i was noticing the trees that have retained their leaves throughout this winter. I was particularly struck by the American Beech trees, which look like they still have 50% of their leaves still hanging on. This got me thinking about what other species of trees retain their leaves through the winter.