PRESS RELEASE - RURAL Ontario
Bob Mackie Archery sent these links about a new task force created by the PC party. He joined Tim Hudack , Randy Hillier and other PC’s at Queens Park.
If you value the outdoors check them out.
This is what happened to Bob and his archery club on his own property! (Read on …)
Show notes for Pre&Post Bucks podcast #123
Many wildlife biologists agree that the diminishing ratio of daylight to darkness is the primary factor in triggering the rut.
For those that want to know the technical term its called “ Photoperiodism”
These shorter days induce hormone-level changes in both bucks and does. Because daylight hours diminish more rapidly in northern latitudes, rutting activity is generally more concentrated in the northern part of the whitetail’s range. As Ontario is at the northern end of a whitetail range we experience the rut early.
Photoperiodism is only part of the rut story.
Moonlight intensity—specifically a bright full moon waning to a dark new moon—affects the timing of the rut. When daylight and moonlight reach a certain level, the doe prepares to enter estrus.
Daylight triggers it but it’s the bright full moon that sets it off. (Read on …)
This fall I spent a few days in Elliot Lake with outdoor guide Marty Descoteaux of Elliot Lake Outfitters while doing a destination article for Ontario Out of Doors magazine.
We fished, hunted and travelled by ATV over three days in absolutely splendid fall weather, The leaves were brilliant, this time the bugs didn’t bite but the fish sure were biting.
Northern grouse were easy pickings if you knew where to look. Marty did!
If you spend a lot of time outdoors hunting, fishing or ATVing like I do I know you’ll appreciate a hot tasty meal when you finaly take that break from the action.
Having eaten cold sandwiches and outdoor trail mix just doesn’t cut it when you need a boost of energy but still crave that luxury of a full course meal. Especially when its cold out!
In the time it takes to build a small fire (Read on …)
It is funny how it took someone in England to put it into words…
Sunday Telegraph Article From today’s UK wires:
Salute to a brave and modest nation - Kevin Myers, ‘The Sunday Telegraph’
