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Yesterday while saying good bye to my Daughter out on the front lawn a Hawk came swooping low over us from over the roof and landed across the street in the neighbours driveway. It did have something in it's talons and this morning I discovered just exactly what it was. The only thing left of the Pigeon in my backyard was it's feather's and wings. A few doors down the street is a Pigeon coop which does allow for both Cooper's and Sharpies to often be seen hunting them and I've seen them in action numerous times, both are incredibly agile predators on the wing and while I can't be 100% certain I do believe given its size that this one yesterday was a Cooper's Hawk. This is as close as I let my daughter get (cell phone picture) so as not to spook the bird off her meal. This is what she left behind in my backyard ......

I hope everyone is celebrating remembrance day for what it is and means. I never had the opportunity to meet or get to know my grand fathers as they lost their lives in the first world war long before I was born. On a lighter note just a few trail cam pics. Finally got some cougar pictures. Some pics of whitetail deer with the forest ground covered in yellow poplar leaves, not near as pretty as the maple leaves you folks have in the eastern provinces but still kinda nice.

Nice catch. Steam with soy sauce and ginger garnished with onion leaves, yum!

Undoubtedly delicious, "free form recipes" often are.

I was rummaging around in the depths of the freezer yesterday, looking for something to use for tonight's meal. I found a chunk of Bison rump that I had from last winter...it was the last piece of a care package of Bison meat that I got from a buddy in the restaurant supply business. Scrounged around the fridge, freezer and pantry, and came up with.. ..leeks, celery and parsley in the crisper drawer leftover from a previous meal ..last of the carrots from the garden ..some wild Bolete (Porcini) mushrooms that I had foraged and dried earlier in the autumn ..frozen peas and green beans from this summer's garden ..a half bag of pearl barley ..beef stock, olive oil and red wine Chop, saute, braise and simmer the above and came up with Bison, Mushroom, Vegetable and Barley soup (actually more like a stew). Definitely a free form recipe...but it turned out darn delicious !

A little off topic but not many places give veteran discounts in Canada like they do it the USA but Cabela’s and Bass pro does give a 10% discount on most items all you need to do is show them your veterans card and it is on top of any other discount or sale of the item its their way of showing respect to vets

You can use the Ontario Crown Land Atlas to locate lakes that are adjacent to Crown Land: https://search.app?link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ontario.ca%2Fpage%2Fcrown-land-use-policy-atlas&utm_campaign=aga&utm_source=agsadl1%2Cagsadl4%2Csh%2Fx%2Fgs%2Fm2%2F4 You can then use Fish ON-Line to find out what species are present in those lakes, along with stocking info and the regulations: https://search.app?link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lioapplications.lrc.gov.on.ca%2Ffishonline%2FIndex.html%3Fviewer%3DFishONLine.FishONLine%26locale%3Den-CA&utm_campaign=aga&utm_source=agsadl1%2Cagsadl4%2Csh%2Fx%2Fgs%2Fm2%2F4