Wayne Clifford’s poem – A Lament for Bats
[PHOTO CREDIT: WHITE-NOSE SYNDROME.ORG] Wayne Clifford, a poet from Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, did a CBC radio interview on Monday and read his poem, “A Lament for Bats” –…
CWF Garden Photo of the Week
[PHOTO: CWF] Need help after an encounter with poison ivy or stinging nettle? Look no further than this helpful little plant – jewelweed, also known as spotted jewelweed, spotted touch-me-not, or by…
Listing Bats In Canada
[PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF/NB MUSEUM] North America has 48 different species of bats and 6 of them have experienced significant mortality due to white-nose syndrome. The species hardest hit are…
CWF Garden Photo of the Week
[PHOTO CREDIT: CWF] Around this time our Wildlife-Friendly Demonstration Garden is coloured with ripening fruit. Our deep blue-purple pagoda dogwood berries have already been devoured by waxwings and other birds, but more…
CWF Garden Photo of the Week
[PHOTO CREDIT: CWF] I’ve yet to meet a person who didn’t like hummingbirds, those tiny winged dynamos that can hover and move about in all directions with such seeming ease.…
A New Name For The WNS Causing Fungus
[PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF/NB MUSEUM – a culture of Pseudogymnoascus destructans growing on agar in the lab] The fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, Geomyces destructans, has been renamed…
Watching Robin’s Grow
For the past couple of summers my family and I have had a robin nest on top of our hydro meter right outside our front door and this summer was…
CWF Garden Photo of the Week
[PHOTO CREDIT: CWF] Canada is home to many beautiful ferns. Since I began paying attention to them, I have come to appreciate the many different textures that ferns offer, apart…
WNS Continues to Spread
[PHOTO CREDIT: WHITE-NOSE SYNDROME.ORG] As you can see in the above map, white-nose syndrome continued to spread at a rapid pace during the 2012-2013 winter season. Nine new…
CWF Garden Photo of the Week
[PHOTO CREDIT: CWF] Bees and butterflies are busy pollinating the flowers in our Wildlife-friendly Demonstration Garden. It’s always fun to take a minute to watch them at work. It’s then that…
