A bear in the neighbourhood!
 

Hot news from Aurora - a black bear has wandered into town and last I heard, was up a tree in a back yard!:eek:

Now before everyone says "so" - this is the 'burbs of Toronto, we don't get bears and really I am amazed one turned up in downtown Aurora.

Anyone else had unexpected "visitors" in their neighbourhoods?

Bombards

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Should I post the video of the bear wandering through my back yard again, or are you all bored of that now?


Its in the gallery here if you are interested:unsure:

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A few weeks ago my friends' dog began acting agitated late at night. She then heard a noise outside her back yard and when she investigated it (from indoors, switching on patio lights) a bear had tipped over her green bin and was eating the food waste. :eek: Her dog ran straight to the bedroom and hid.

She lives less than 1 mile out of town (Trenton, NS). :eek:

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If we go for option B, does that also cover Christmas decorations, skeetervacs and thermometers?

Happy belated birthday, BTW.

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Now we are camping near you in July, at Presquille provincial park - should I be worried?

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Post a link to the video Iain :)

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Post a link to the video Iain :)

PS Can we swap Skeetervacs because last year we only lured a few biters into ours and the other thousand or so were buzzing around my garden humming "nah nah na nah na"...............

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Not if he's still taking his medication.

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Id be more worried by bored Brighton teens...

Ive never been a big fan of presquille, its more of a nature reserve nowadays than say Sandbanks.


Ill spare souv the bear...this time... Its here for those interested...
http://britishexpats.com/photopost/s...9&ppuser=16059

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Going off topic (like that never happens here) Try fiddling with the bait settings, give it a good vacuuming (the inside can clog), and Ive had to replace an "engine" in the time Ive had mine to get it working again too:(

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Getting off topic - Sandbanks was full!!!!! Just wanted to be near the wine tasting area (ish) so this seemed like a good option!

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There's wine making in Quinte?

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Well, have fun anyway.

If you happen to be nearby and have a park pass anyway, North Beach might be worth checking out. Too cold to swim though this early, but its where we usually go later in the summer. Day trips only though, there is no camping there.

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Prince Edward County is getting quite a reputation.... small volume so far, but there are probably 20 or so wineries now in the bit that sticks out into the lake, and a tourist trade to go with it.

Its recently been given its own VQA designation I believe

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Meaningless. Just because it's consistent, doesn't mean it's any good.

We used to buy a Niagara red from a concession at the Loblaws in Oakville. It was discontinued and replaced with a more expensive VQA version that was consistently foul.

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More symptomatic of some serious intent to make it a commercially viable wine area rather than a bunch of small semi-retired hobbyists.

Cant say Ive ever actually tried their product though...I just see a lot of signs for wineries on the way to the beach now.

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Is it sold anyway other than locally?

Names to look for?

Edit: Found it... http://www.pec.on.ca/pec_yellowpages...p3?category=44

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thanks for the tip!

We had a really good bottle of red last Friday from PEC but can't remember the name of it - still looking forward to exploring some more of Ontario!:thumbsup:

kept bottle at home - so will check it out later

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Not entirely sure;

This seems to give a good oversight of whats out there;
http://www.billysbestbottles.com/200...ty-wine-tours/

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There's a winery not far from here, and the wine isn't bad, better than any I tasted when we went to PEC. Some of it is stuffed full of something that doesn't agree with me though. No idea what but it makes my face go bright red, though in a different way to had to much to drink bright red - before anyone comments...

The winery http://www.oakheights.ca/

Back on topic. A bear was seen in Peterborough last week. Just a little guy.

http://deafenedinontario.blogspot.co...-baseball.html

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Back on topic we have had a Fisher in the back yard a few times.


Its usually in the spring, and usually followed a few days later by the simultaneously cute and sad sight of a bunch of now motherless Raccoon cubs. Fishers apparently are pretty vicious.


not my picture...they never hang around long enough..

http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/diversty/soc/...r_fullbody.jpg

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Let me know if you fine any Pinot More wine as I'm a senior.

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I've done some googling on this and the best I can find is a cheeky Pinot Blood. Would that help?

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Can i take a punt at gin

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You can my friend, but you would be wrong. :p

It's something in wine, so you wouldn't mix gin and wine would you?? That would also be wrong.

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It's probably sulphite. Some cheap red wines are loaded with it and many people react badly. So I'm told.

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I've often thought it's sulfites. I react more to blended wines too, cheaper stuff. Though one bottle of vintage ££££ champagne was evil and had to be cancelled out by a more expensive bottle. :thumbsup:

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Slippery slope, that. Stick to Beefeaters.

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yeuch, poison!!!

Tanqueray is the gin for me.

PS I wasn't paying for the champagne

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Glad to hear about the champers.

I'm not a fan of the sloe; they all taste the same to me.

But were I too succumb to the OH's G&T cravings, I'll bear your recommendation in mind.

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Juniper, not sloe. You fond fool.
Sloes are what you add to gin to make sloe gin. I once had some sloe gin that had been made with the young leaves of the blackthorn tree. That was in France, a country with which you are familiar.

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Ah, yes, juniper. Sorry, but I'm sloe.

Is France near Texas?

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Yes, it's right next door.

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Rubbish, seen bigger mice ;) Now this is a bear http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=533250

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Sulphur is used lots in wine, particularly French wine. As a student, I did a six-month stint in a wine shop in Reims. The boss was an oenologue (sp?) and he taught me lots. We mainly sold bulk wine, from 600-litre wooden barrels. Empty barrels, after washing, would be fumigated by burning sulphur sticks in them. After the wine was put in, a litre of sulphur solution would be poured straight into it. It stops oxidisation, IIRC. I think vineyards in Bordeaux also burn sulphur.

Most Bordeaux vines around today come from Californian stock, BTW. The original vines got wiped out by disease yonks ago.

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I think French wine doesn't have a limit on how much they can use. Other wines have to have whether or not they contain sulfites marked on them, and sometimes they are ok, sometimes not ."Oaked" wine can be a problem too, especially when it's flavoured with oak "teabags" rather than oak casks.

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Serious thread drift me thinks:p

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There's no discipline, no self restraint. I blame the parents.

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Just bear with it and it'll all work out.

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I had my first sighting of a cougar passing along the path at the back of our tiny yard on Saturday night. It was about 11.30pm and I only saw it because the neighbours left their spotlights on. It could have been wandering around here for ages! Huge adult too...I was really scared but felt so excited afterwards.

When I rang the Conservation Officer the next day he said that my city has them, as do any areas near mountainous forests, which have racoons, deer and small animals - in other words, they will be around anywhere near a mountainous forest.:ohmy: