Beacon Hill Park Organizers chill before the counting begins: Jon Wiersma (CWF), Catherine Keogen (UVic), Elizabeth Gammell, (CWF), Garry Oak, Val Schaefer (UVic), and Britten Jacob-Schram (UVic), in Beacon Hill Park. Uplands Park and Cattle Point Margaret Lidkea (Friends of Uplands Park), Octavio Cruz (UVic, in red hat), and friends on the foreshore. University of [Continue]
Val & I (Anny Schaefer) had lots of fun doing our Jane’s Walk around James Bay today. AND we only went over one hour (we went 3 hours instead of 2)–woot! Thanks to everybody who came along for sharing your time, stories and love of the James Bay neighbourhood with us today! The Google Map created [Continue]
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Judy Somers of UVic Continuing Studies has posted video clips of Restoration Walks in February on the Gorge, in James Bay, and through Dockside Green. http://owl.uvcs.uvic.ca/media/rns/jamesbay.mp4 – 4 seals dancing for herring at Fisherman’s Wharfhttp://owl.uvcs.uvic.ca/media/rns/dockside.mp4 – water water everywherehttp://owl.uvcs.uvic.ca/media/rns/gorge.mp4 – signs of hope on the Gorge Waterway
This little fellow was dashing along the rocks at Ogden Point Breakwater on Saturday. Mustela vison evagor Hall is the subspecies of American mink native to Vancouver Island, according to Ian McTaggart-Cowan and Charles J. Guiguet’s classic BC Provincial Museum-published manual, The Mammals of British Columbia (1965). There’s some debate about whether the mink that [Continue]
Prunus subhirtella ‘Rosea’ (Higan Cherry), Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria BC, April 9, 2009) The subtleties of blossom-watching have raised it to an art form and favoured cultural pastime in Japan, where it’s known as hanami. March and April are also time for Cherry Blossom Festivals in Vancouver and Washington, DC . While Victoria doesn’t have [Continue]