At the beginning of the month I wrote about an initiative called 30 Days Wild which encourages people to do something outdoorsy every day during the month of June. It's a great idea and fits well with our lives, even during the pandemic. Our community of 50,000 is on the Bay of Quinte and within an hour (even 15 minutes) we can be places where we encounter very few people. Being early risers helps as well.
We regularly cycle in town, along the Bay of Quinte shoreline trail and sometimes up the Moira River. Some days we cover 15 to 22 kilometres on our urban routes. While it would be a stretch of the imagination to call these wilderness forays we certainly see lots of wildlife. Recently we've seen green and blue herons, ospreys, and multitudinous turtles, one of which we assisted across the road. Earlier we saw migrating ducks and mergansers, as well as a loon passing through. Now there are lots of cygnets with their swan parents.
Mammals? Beavers, muskrats, rabbits, foxes, squirrels, squirrels and more squirrels. There are spots where the wildflowers and flowering trees flourish in Spring, much to our delight.
One of the spots where we regularly see a variety of critters is a holding pond next to a noisy factory. Apparently "location, location, location" isn't a high priority.
As you may know, I regularly remind readers that the bible begins and ends in a garden, and the river of the heavenly city in Revelation is clean and lined with trees. I'd like to think that we can all appreciate 30 Days Urban Wild if we're just willing to pay attention.
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