Outdoors

Some 30 spider species call Ontario home and their hunting techniques vary, explains outdoors columnist

Catkins, lacking delicate parts, can tough out a few days of chill rain and a small flurry of lacklustre snow, notes outdoors columnist

If you have been sprayed, you have to fight science with science, and that doesn't include tomato juice, says outdoors columnist

'Winter things are disappearing and spring things are showing up in every habitat type from wilderness to urban,' notes outdoors columnist

A question persists, says columnist: Can wildlife species adapt to new blooming periods and all the changing attachments in their web of life?

'As one of the sought-after spring icons, the sight of a red-breasted robin bob-bob-bobbing along in the yard is a real spirit lifter,' says columnist

Beavers are active all winter long and will leave their lodge via an underwater entrance burrow, explains outdoors columnist

With a food shortage and a limited area to find the needed culinary items, things can get a little scary for animals, columnist explains

Each event brings both crushing defeats and ultimate survival, explains columnist of the 'wild' antics taking place in local forests

Ruffed grouse, or partridges, like to fly down from the treetops and 'plop drop' into the snow, burrow deep within and slumber, explains columnist