Old #Toronto with the arsenic-copper green, and brown bricks. #architecture

#geologists I'm doing a #bicycle trip of Lake Huron and the Bruce Peninsula in #Ontario latter in the summer. Looking for a #geology#bicycle#ontarioook like 'Roadside geology of New York', any suggestions, but for the area. I find that when I #cycle I get interested in #topography#geologistsfor obvious reasons […]

Cycled up from Lake Ontario to the Claireville Dam, along the Humber River trail. Perfect weather for it today, and a great cycling path in Toronto. https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/456768#map=15/43.74557/-79.64191 #Toronto #biketooter #bike

Saw a wholesome thing today, a half dozen teens just riding some ebikes around the neigbourhood. #toronto ##biketooter

Empire Cycle, from Canada. Does anybody know anything about this company? #toronto #bicycle #biketooter

Had a couple of baby house sparrows in the backyard. #Toronto #birds #birding #bird

The Island Airport in Toronto appeals to a very small group of people. People who live in downtown Toronto and don't own a car. It doesn't make sense to drive into downtown Toronto to use the Island Airport. So expansion plans aren't really going to attract too many more new users. Especially […]

#toronto went over to the islands yesterday evening.

Had an Irish Ceili Set Dance on the islands in Toronto. The last dance of the season, until September. #Toronto #dance #dancing #setdance #music#toronto#dancing#dance#folk #folkmusic

The bike lanes on Bloor St. W. looks really good, making the street look nice and inviting to walk around, one wants to visit all the little shops. That's not the case with Eglinton Ave. W., the street feels like a highway. They're the same in terms on width, and […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/554261636#map=13/43.64271/-79.61601 I'm thinking the distinctive clay layer is from 60,000 years ago when the area was a mud flat? #Toronto #geology

Irish set dancing in Toronto. This from the last ceili of the season. Good time. #dance #music #irish #setdancing #toronto

At today's bike protest. #onpoli #topoli #Toronto #bike

A pedestrian was killed today along Eglinton Ave. W. This is the part of Eglinton that does not have a protected bike lane. The street is way too fast, and is being used as an entrance to the highway. Build the the bike lanes, slow the traffic down. Make this portion of Eglinton a nice street […]

Going to this little community along Lakeshore W. in #toronto feels like steeping back in time several decades. Toronto of old. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/180683142

Terrible news for #BikeTO! I got confirmation from @toronto.ca that the eglintonTOday Complete Street Project can no longer be completed because of changes to provincial legislation. Given the City had resurfaced that street last fall without bike lanes, it's on them too. #shame #TOpoli #ONpoli

From a few days ago at Colonel Samuel Smith Park, map is here https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/33711256 Saw many Grebes out on the the water. They have nicely coloured plumage. #Toronto #birds #bird #birding

A baby grackle being fed by its parent. The red-winged blackbird came by and was mad at the whole scene and was trying to chase everything away. A photo set from yesterday at Colonel Samuel Smith Park […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

Went to Colonel Samuel Smith Park to see the migrating Whimbrels working their way north. https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/12479250966 #Toronto #birds #bird #birding #nature

Went out to Colonel Samuel Smith Park in #Toronto to try to spot some Whimbrels, but had no luck. Instead took a few pics of the arctic terns. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/33711256#map=16/43.59304/-79.51389 #bird #birds #birding

“I have measured out my life with coffee cup cardboard heat sleeves,” #Toronto #coffee #poetry#toronto#tseliot

Listened to the BBC's, In Our Time podcast regarding the The Spanish-American War 1898. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002tbzg Reminded me of Joshua Slocum, the first to sail around the world alone, 1895-1898, and his memoir […]

I was going to try and salvage this old bicycle frame..but I have no idea how the previous owner managed to get an oversized nut into the crank arm. No socket fits this. Oversized bolt threaded onto the bottom bracket, and no room in the crank arm to fit a socket […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

32 years ago I started working on my first browser, Opera. I left Opera in 2011, but two years later I co-founded Vivaldi. Thus I have been making browsers now for 32 years, with a short break there between 2011 and 2013. I have always felt that this work is important and no less today than […]

Yesterday's adventure in the Wet Woods of Tommy Thompson Park netted a nice prize, saw this Blue-Grey Gnatcatcher nest. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/986766339 #Toronto #birds #bird #birding #nature

Went to the Wet Woods at Tommy Thompson Park. Saw a; Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Baltimore Oriole. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/986766339 The area this time of year gets very wet under food, so bring rubber boots, or […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

Went to Tommy Thompson Park and saw a deer in the city. #Toronto #nature#toronto https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/15729020

Went for a walk today in the local parks in #Toronto https://gron.ca/OVCO/nature/2026-05-09.html #birds #bird #birding

Saw this cute little rabbit today at Spadina House https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/775753199 #Toronto #nature

#Birding at Swan Lake in #Toronto Markham today. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/165927835 #bird#birding#birds

A little chipping sparrow today at Swan Lake. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/165927835 #Toronto #Ontario #birds #bird #birding

A longer blog post I did about a #nature walk through my neighbour in #Toronto and #birding#toronto https://gron.ca/OVCO/nature/2026-05-02.html Enjoy!

A white-breasted nuthatch. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/42708812 #Toronto #birds #birding #bird

The cherry trees in Cedarvale Park, today, Toronto. These two pictures were taken 3 weeks apart. A bit of a cold spring, but nice flowering of the trees. #Toronto #cherryBlossoms #trees#toronto#CherryBlossoms#sakura https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1299895378#map=18/43.693661/-79.432617

This is not an autumn picture. It is in fact a spring picture. The red is from budding out maple trees. The grackle has a great colouring, iridescent colour in the light drizzle. #birds #bird #nature#bird#birds#toronto https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/56300240

Saw an American Bittern in a local park, in Toronto. Not usually found around here. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/69493531#map=16/43.68974/-79.42482 #Toronto #birds #bird #birding

The chemical 6PPD was developed by tire companies in the late 1960s. It’s the reason tires that once lasted between 5k and 10k miles now last 60k to 75k miles. in addition to coho or silver salmon, 6PPD-Q is lethal to brook trout, lake trout, coastal cutthroat trout […] [Original post on mas.to]

Saw a Louisiana waterthrush in #Toronto It was a cold and rainy day, but a good day for birding. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/15707311 #birds

This Yellow-bellied sapsucker is coming after you! Went birding on this cold and rainy day, was not disappointed. There were many yellow-bellied sapsuckers in the woods https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/15707311 #birds #birding #bird#birding#birds#toronto

Bits of rhubarb popping up. #allotment #gardening in #toronto

Here is a quick write-up of my Tuesday in San Francisco https://gron.ca/nature/2026-03-24.html #birds #sanfrancisco

A couple more pics from my San Francisco trip. A harbour Seal and a Brandt Cormorant. At Fisherman's Wharf. #sanfrancisco #birds

Came back and viewing my pictures of San Francisco. Saw this cute boat in the SF harbour Not sure the type. #sanfrancisco #boat

Was in San Francisco and saw Western Gulls. They are big! #birds #sanfrancisco

Cardinal at the bird feeder. Picking up all the fallen sunflower seeds. #birds

San Francisco.

I'm in San Francisco.

Flying across the Rockies.

This unfinished building siding, makes it seem like the pigeons have little condos. #Toronto #birds

#spring has sprung fast #toronto