from themeadoway.ca
The Meadoway is transforming a hydro corridor in Scarborough into a vibrant 16-kilometre stretch of urban greenspace and meadowlands that will become one of Canada’s largest linear urban parks.
Cyclists and pedestrians will soon be able to travel from the heart of downtown Toronto to Rouge National Urban Park without ever leaving nature.
Over the next seven years, this site will become a place filled with butterflies, birds and wildflowers – a rich meadow landscape realized on a scale never before seen in Toronto.
American Goldfinches, who are almost exclusively seed eaters and who are with us twelve months a year, are taking advantage of all of the seeds which are found in the Meadoway.
Both groups saw goldfinches today at Thomson Park which includes some of the Meadoway.
Other birds:
Some botany:
10am group:
1pm group:
NATURE QUOTE
“Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.” – Robert Browning
Miles Hearn
I’ve been hiking hydro corridors for at least two decades. Wish I could live (and be able enough?) to do the “linear park” to The Rouge (I’ll be 69 on Dec.1). Wonder how long it would take to hike it? Presumable, it exists already as a series of hydro corridors. But hiking all the way from downtown Toronto to The Rouge would have been a touch, well, “challenging”, to say the least–even when I was younger!