Riverdale Nature Walk

Today I went for a walk with my sister again, this time in the afternoon. It had rained in the morning so when we went out it was a bit cloudy, but eventually, it cleared up and got quite warm (about 25 C). We decided to go through Riverdale Park and towards Riverdale Farm. We ended up walking through Toronto Necropolis as well. Since it had just rained, I was expecting to see more worms out on the ground since that's what I've observed before, but surprisingly we did not see any. We did, however, see quite a few caterpillars that appeared to be of the same kind. I have heard that recently that Toronto and Ontario have had an overwhelming amount of gypsy moths infesting trees this year so it's likely that those are what we saw. Otherwise, in terms of animals, it was mostly common city-dwelling animals like squirrels and pigeons. We walked along a path through the park towards the farm and along the fence were a lot of leafy green plants with the occasional flower. The cemetery was a very pretty walk but it was more landscaped. Maybe if we had gone into the Don Valley again we would have seen more, but it was nice to change up the route!

Posted on 19 June, 2021 01:34 by soniawalk