Time flies. This morning was the final walk of the TDSB fall session which began back on September 10.

It was overcast, chilly and occasionally windy but a good-sized group appeared.

I have seen some interesting birds in Etobicoke Creek here including a Red-throated Loon.

This morning, there was a male Green-winged Teal.

For weeks, I have been seeing female teals in various locations.

The male, as you can see, is quite different.

Other birds:

Park views:

Some botany:

NATURE POETRY

I caught this morning morning’s minion, king-

    dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding

    Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding

High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing

In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,

    As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding

    Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding

Stirred for a bird, – the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!

Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here

 Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion

Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!

   No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion

Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,

    Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

Miles Hearn