I am so very done with Doug Fucking Ford. Join me and a bunch of #organizers to fire him #ontario #dofotogo #ondp #canada #canadaland #toronto #canadapoli #fordnation #captaincanada #standonbusiness #politics #crooked #torontoislands #billybishopairport #torontogoths #stopford #wecantafforddoug

Winter Scenes 2026 A collection of photos from around Toronto this winter taken on guided nature walks that I have led. If you are interested in exploring Toronto’s ravines and parks with me, visit this page to…

New blog post: Winter Scenes

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American Robin, Toronto Islands. May 2025.

#birds #nature #wildlife #naturevideos #ontario #robin #americanrobin #torontoislands

Geese and goslings, Toronto Islands, May 2025.

#birds #nature #wildlife #naturevideos #ontario #geese #gosling #torontoislands

Jack Woodhouse of Acme Farmers Dairy delivering milk to customers on the Toronto Islands, 82 years ago today - Feb 18, 1944.

📸: Globe and Mail fonds, City of Toronto Archives

#OnThisDay #OTD #1940s #milkman #dairy #torontoislands #winter #work #history #torontohistory #canada #jeremyhopkin

Torontonians are skating on Lake Ontario,; but Lifesaving Society says it’s a bad idea - NOW Toronto Toronto’s bitterly cold temperatures have people turning towards skating on Lake Ontario, but the city warns it’s a slippery slope.

Toronto’s bitterly cold temperatures over the past weeks have people turning towards makeshift ice rinks on Lake Ontario near the Toronto Islands, but the city and lifesaving experts warn it’s a dangerously slippery slope. #LakeOntario #TorontoIslands #iceskating

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View from Ward’s island on a snowy morning. The sounds of children in the background getting off the ferry and boarding their school buses.
#winter #torontoislands #lakeontario

Toronto Island, Summer, circa 1950

Artist: Emily Louise Orr Elliott (1867-1952)
Medium: Oil painting
Private collection

#1950s #art #torontoislands #TorontoHistory #jeremyhopkin

Centre Island School, looking west, 1890

Artist: Joseph Thomas Rolph (1831-1916)
Medium: Watercolour
Toronto Public Library

Notes: This one-room schoolhouse near Gibraltar point lighthouse was built circa 1888.

#1890s #school #torontoislands #watercolour #art #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

Sailboat at Toronto Islands, circa 1940

Artist: Owen Staples (1866-1949)
Medium: Watercolour
Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library

#1940s #sailing #watercolour #watercolor #painting #torontoart #art #torontoislands #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Sunset at Sugar Beach #toronto #torontoharbour #torontoislands #sugarbeach #sunset #evening

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Nycticorax nycticorax

It's not night time! Night heron sighted during the day. Absurd!

#birds #ontario #photography #nature #outdoors #toronto #wildlife #nativespecies #lake #lakeOntario #torontoIslands #heron #waterfowl

Setophaga palmarum

Another jailbird! This time a palm warbler. Tropical in name only, only one other warbler breeds further to the north.

#birds #ontario #photography #nature #outdoors #toronto #wildlife #nativespecies #torontoIslands #warbler #airport

A downy woodpecker climbing a small tree

Dryobates pubescens

I finally have a decent photo for #woodpeckerWednesday and all I see is "pube" in the Latin name. I may be 37, but I'm also 12

#birds #ontario #photography #nature #outdoors #toronto #wildlife #nativespecies #forest #tree #woodpecker #birdwatching #torontoIslands

An eastern kingbird perched on barbed wire at the Toronto island airport

Tyrannus tyrannus

With a Latin name like that, I'm not surprised it's a jailbird!

#birds #ontario #photography #nature #outdoors #toronto #wildlife #nativespecies #torontoIslands #airport #fence #birdwatching #perch #jailbird

A great egret eating a small fish at the edge of lake Ontario

Ardea alba

This is one of the great egrets of my life.

#birds #ontario #photography #nature #outdoors #toronto #wildlife #nativespecies #marsh #waterfowl #wetlands #heron #torontoIslands #lake #lakeOntario #noegrets #noragrets

A bald faced hornet, white and black, crawling on some white berries

Dolichovespula maculata

The bald faced hornet is actually a yellow jacket wasp and not a true hornet.

Does this count as stolen valour?

#bugs #bees #wasps #insect #flower #pollinator #photography #nature #outdoors #toronto #wildlife #nativespecies #torontoIslands

The head of a double crested cormorant on a snake-like neck sticking out of the water as it swims along the lake's surface.

Nannopterum auritum

Animals adapt to specific niches, cormorants are an example of a specialized predator.

Which is why they look so goofy in other contexts! What a derp

#birds #ontario #photography #nature #outdoors #toronto #wildlife #nativespecies #wetlands #lakeOntario #torontoIslands #lake

A gorgeous female mallard swimming

Anas platyrhynchos

Is she the prettiest mallard in Toronto?

Hmmm. Not sure. I guess I'll have to keep #birdwatching to find out!

#birds #ontario #photography #nature #outdoors #toronto #wildlife #nativespecies #lake #lakeOntario #torontoIslands #duck #waterfowl #pretty #gorgeous

Zonotrichia albicollis

White throated sparrows occasionally mate with dark eyed juncos... They aren't closely related but they still produce hybrid fledgling that survive to adulthood!

#birds #ontario #photography #nature #outdoors #toronto #wildlife #nativespecies #torontoIslands #lakeOntario

Ardea alba

Great egrets are mainly waders but also sometimes hunt by swimming or even hovering. I suspect that they egret it.

#birds #ontario #photography #nature #outdoors #toronto #wildlife #nativespecies #marsh #wetlands #lakeOntario #torontoIslands #lake

A cormorant up close, showing off its turquoise eyes

Nannopterum auritum

A bird that swims well enough to catch fish! Pretty cool, but don't stand downwind of their nests... It's not pleasant.

Also, look at those eyes!

#birds #ontario #photography #nature #outdoors #toronto #wildlife #nativespecies #waterfowl #lake #lakeOntario #torontoIslands

Ardea herodias

I'm not thrilled with this photo but the feathers ruffling as the heron slows was interesting enough to share!

#birds #ontario #photography #nature #outdoors #toronto #wildlife #nativespecies #lake #lakeOntario #water #heron #torontoIslands #feather

Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis

@thesquidsink.com and I ran into this garter snake who had just had a big meal. Owing to the bulging stomach, it was happy to sit still while we took some pictures.

#reptile #snake #photography #nature #outdoors #toronto #wildlife #nativespecies #torontoIslands #herp

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The recently dedicated Edward "Ned" Hanlan memorial statue, photographed on this day in 1926 (Sept 11) at Exhibition Place in Toronto.

📸 City of Toronto Archives

#OnThisDay #OTD #nedhanlan #statue #memorial #torontoislands #hanlanspoint #1920s #sports #history #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin