"As your local badger, I reject your allegation that I run like an old neglected footstool which has just discovered its own sentience."

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Right behind me, a red-bellied woodpecker chattered as they made their way up a dying tree. We see downies and hairies all around, flickers in season too, but for red-bellied woodpeckers I go up into the woods. I love these noisy neighbours.

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It’s always an ooh and ahh worthy spot, but October brings even more awe. Etobicoke Creek, dressed for fall.

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That starry-eyed view I mentioned - sweeping around from the Toronto skyline in the east to vastness of the lake, west to Mississauga & Oakville shoreline over the piers, plus the beautiful park and neighbourhoods behind me, home nearby to the east. All to a chorus of fall crickets & katydids.

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All these lovely insect encounters were in the incredible new park just west of us, the mostly-meadow but soon to be forested (loads of trees newly planted) Jim Tovey Lakeview CA. Several wooly bear caterpillars were zooming along right beside this sign at the top of the hill with the 🤩 view.

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