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@noralee6793 7 күн бұрын

Thanks, Sharon! One thing that has occurred to me is that the sumac and some trees are moving across the hill. These will eventually obscure the view. To keep the hillside a meadow, it needs to be mowed periodically, like once every couple of years. Not to the ground but to about a foot or so. Good practice would see sections mowed in different years so there is always an area abundant in wildflowers.

@friendsofcarlingtonhampton 7 күн бұрын

I wonder if we have a hope in hell of getting the city to do that? 😁

@noralee6793 7 күн бұрын

@@friendsofcarlingtonhampton Yeah, I hear ya! They have mowed it before, I think. question is can they be trusted to mow at the right height and maybe half one year and the other half the next. The sumac would require cutting with a different tool. Remember those women from forestry? we talked to?

@friendsofcarlingtonhampton 5 күн бұрын

@@noralee6793 Yep, I've got their names. Maybe we make a request in spring? And possibly loop Riley in.

@VERY_VARIOUS_VIDEOS Ай бұрын

Wonderful forest drive views, autumn colors, footage. Thank you for sharing. Video 👍

@قناةمنوعة-ك5و 2 ай бұрын

Hello, can I have the name of the tree? Thank you.

@friendsofcarlingtonhampton 2 ай бұрын

The white flowers that the bees are on are White Upland Asters (Aster ptarmicoides)

@wademartin8822 2 ай бұрын

I'm in California near Lake Tahoe. Just heard a crow make a sound like a frog. I thought it was a frog until I got closer! And then I saw it was a crow making that noise!

@wademartin8822 2 ай бұрын

It sounded a little like the sound in your video

@friendsofcarlingtonhampton 2 ай бұрын

@@wademartin8822 Cool! When the ravens moved into this area a few years ago, the local crows weren't too happy and some of them even started imitating them!

@noralee6793 2 ай бұрын

Haha! Very good! Thank you for popping out for a while to do that!

@halleychopra8604 3 ай бұрын

We just heard this sound in Gatineau, then saw the biggest raven we've ever imagined fly over. Thanks for the vid to confirm it was the raven!

@SharonBoddy 3 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it! There are so many of them in this neck of the woods now! Some of our local crows have begun to imitate their calls. Look for the wedge-shaped tail when they're in flight; they also tend to glide more than crows (who flap a lot).

@ASBN94-d8t 3 ай бұрын

Nice

@noralee6793 4 ай бұрын

Wow! That’s awesome!

@noralee6793 4 ай бұрын

Is that hello giant hyssop? The bees sure love it there!

@friendsofcarlingtonhampton 4 ай бұрын

Yep! That's the seed we got from OWS, too. I've transplanted about half a dozen of the larger ones out already. It appears to be very useful against creeping bellflower.

@ximirux2408 4 ай бұрын

The funni bird sound

@glitterhoney 4 ай бұрын

i have two in my back garden tree croaking at each other just now 😂 sounds like two frogs

@friendsofcarlingtonhampton 4 ай бұрын

I love the noise they make that sounds like water gurgling in a stream. I've also noticed that the local crows have started to imitate the ravens...smart birds!

@noralee6793 5 ай бұрын

Yay for volunteer plants - and people!

@Myrtuscommunis 5 ай бұрын

Wonderful! 👍💚🐝

@noralee6793 5 ай бұрын

Gosh, how did the purple coneflower get there, and the blue vervain? Those don’t usually show up on their own. Perhaps it is close enough to where you have been planting to have been naturally seeded there.

@friendsofcarlingtonhampton 5 ай бұрын

That's the thing -- for some reason, we've never planted coneflower! And even if we had, it'd be in the meadow, halfway across the park. The city or province did some seeding back there after they widened the Queensway, so even though they also brought in non-natives in the soil, perhaps they used a native seed mix. There are only a few specimens, so there's also the possibly that someone did some seeding in there. But another good spot to get next year's crop of seeds!

@MdKhorshedAlamgarmBangla 6 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@noralee6793 7 ай бұрын

Is that in Hampton or Carlington?

@friendsofcarlingtonhampton 7 ай бұрын

Hampton.

@friendsofcarlingtonhampton 7 ай бұрын

One of the "goat paths" made that goes to the Ridge.

@frankdavisiii9514 8 ай бұрын

I caught some in my house and put them under a clear plastic cup. I just looked at them and they’re all upside down, dead. BUT one of them has no insides left!! Just a head, wings and legs. My guess, it got so thirsty, it ate the other to stay alive 😅

@SharonBoddy 8 ай бұрын

Bugs are so cool. Some are more evil than others 🙂

@mychael.kostiuk 9 ай бұрын

That area was also a former on ramp heading east that curved around from Carling up onto the Queensway. The MTO. Decided to close it because they felt that the other on ramp at Carling and Kirkwood was too close to it. So the amount of trees that they planted there appears to be an attempt to make it into a treed area.

@friendsofcarlingtonhampton 9 ай бұрын

Yeah, that ramp was a bit of a death trap for pedestrians. But they didn't plant tree out of the goodness of their heart; it was a requirement of the contract and it was done badly in many spots. In nearby Hampton, you could pull the trees right out of the soil a year after they were "planted." No one has been back to check these trees or unstake them since 2019 despite emails to the Ministry of Transport and the MPP. Two trees planted by Kingsway United (also provincial) won't make it -- fabric they used to stake the trees has grown into the bark.

@noralee6793 9 ай бұрын

Thanks, Sharon. I had not looked in quite a while. Maybe we could put a sign that indicates it’s for compostables but we still need the No Trash sign because people don’t know what is compostable and what isn’t! I’ll make a sign to cover all these issues.

@friendsofcarlingtonhampton 9 ай бұрын

I was surprised to find so much in it -- I often check it and it's been fine up until now. I didn't check the one at the Staircase, but I've never found anything in that one. I'm thinking that a more permanent solution is to move it further back, closer to the fence. People use it because it's right there (plus the lid was off it when I arrived), so maybe it's a question of making it more difficult to get to.

@noralee6793 9 ай бұрын

Possibly it would help reduce access but also it will get less sun to help it decompose. However, I've not been actively cultivating it as a composter, I admit.@@friendsofcarlingtonhampton

@Thalievb 11 ай бұрын

What an excellent video and speaker, thanks for putting this up on KZbin. I'm going to have to watch this again to capture everything.

@noralee6793 11 ай бұрын

Why did they push the snow so far?!

@friendsofcarlingtonhampton 11 ай бұрын

Laziness? Ignorance of the consequences? Your guess is as good as mine. There is so much open greenspace, grass that could take the salt, but instead they just pile wherever they feel like it. Reported to City & NCC.

@noralee6793 11 ай бұрын

Gosh! Where is this?

@savehuntclubforest5119 11 ай бұрын

😡😡😡

@friendsofcarlingtonhampton 11 ай бұрын

That toilet has been there for years...the City doesn't patrol for illegal dumping unless pushed. It did work for us on the other side of the park, but there are more eyes on that section.

@friendsofcarlingtonhampton 11 ай бұрын

It's one of the paths into the lower West Woods that are off the street that runs parallel to Woodward about a 5-minute walk west of the City yard. Because no one polices illegal dumping, all sorts of people use this place. We did manage to stop dumping at the Raven entrance with the City's help, so perhaps we need another concerted City effort.

@LassieFarm Жыл бұрын

Ha ! He thinks he's people

@noralee6793 Жыл бұрын

Neat!

@VERY_VARIOUS_VIDEOS Жыл бұрын

Very nice butterflies, flowers, nature. video, thank you for sharing. Like 👍

@friendsofcarlingtonhampton Жыл бұрын

Many thanks! We're not great with video yet but with a better camera now it should get better!

@VERY_VARIOUS_VIDEOS Жыл бұрын

@@friendsofcarlingtonhampton I think your video is very good! 🙂

@midwestplantgeeks8643 Жыл бұрын

This does not look easy. Thing is heavy and requires a lot of physical energy. She'll give up before the job is complete. No respect for the pullers as they get nothing done relatively speaking and completely ruin the soil structure. cut treat and you'll eliminate buckthorn, use the puller and it ain't happening

@friendsofcarlingtonhampton Жыл бұрын

No one said it'd be easy but it has to be done and we did it. The job was done by several adults and about half a dozen 11 and 12 year olds. We planted shrubs and trees, and overseeded with native wildflowers and grasses, and did another round of buckthorn weeding this spring. It's working. Don't knock it till you've tried it.

@victorv3890 8 ай бұрын

Honestly would probably be a breeze to use for a man over 200 pounds. Just put your weight into it and it’ll put anything up

@noralee6793 Жыл бұрын

Hey, I’m a star! Lol

@friendsofcarlingtonhampton Жыл бұрын

I was going through all the videos and saw that this was never got uploaded publicly...better late than never, eh?

@noralee6793 Жыл бұрын

Yes! 43 shrubs made up of I think 6 species, almost all doing very well.

@noralee6793 Жыл бұрын

Lovely! NIce to have it labeled but those ones don’t last very long.

@friendsofcarlingtonhampton Жыл бұрын

These are the same ones I used for the past several weeks to ID trout lily colonies (I just changed the labels), so they're still hanging in there.