You obviously haven't been in Port Credit. The place is over run with them...
My vote would be for the Loon and Wild Rose.
What should be the official Bird and Flower of Canada?
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My vote would be for the Loon and Wild Rose.
We have a sap harvester on this board, that may be able to educate you on how often he "bleeds a maple to death".
Canadian Geese being hunted to extinction?
Or roost on the arrow of a hunters bow, while he sits in wait for his quarry.
Been thinking about this for a while and the best I can come up with is marijuana for the flower since it is so popular and fuels so much of our economy.
Seagulls for the bird since they, like politicians **** all over us.
Seagulls for the bird since they, like politicians **** all over us.
Yep, El Barto. I've called him sap sucker from time to time, but one day I want to get a 5gallon pail of the sweet elixir off him, and I'd like it sans bodily fluids, so I play nice, lol.
You harvest gray birch sap not the silver birch. It takes 70 to 1 sap to syrup ratio compared to 40 to 1 for maple. We used to just keep a really big pot on the wood heater and just keep dumping sap in it until the sap ran out and let it stew until the syrup was ready. I like it even more than maple.
Me too and I have 15 acres worth of birch that are far easier to rig with lines than the maples. The old timers use to do it. I want to be an oldtimer too.
Birch sap is a really refreshing drink and a spring tonic straight from the tree. It also supposedly has enough yeast in it to ferment itself into a nice beer without adding anything, but I have never tried it.
With 15 acres you will need a fairly big boiler. Be careful if you are using hoses that you don't bleed the trees to death. If you cut down a birch in the late fall it will spout like a fountain in the spring for weeks. Lotsa juice there.
My two favs which aren't very popular but have sweet memories for me are:
Wild roses growing in abundance in an undeveloped part of Winnipeg where my dad purchased land to build a family home. They smelled so beautiful and were a plain flower to earn the name "rose" but I liked their
smiling faces.
In that same area I woke each spring through autumn to the strident calling of the Meadowlark and when we
finally moved to B.C. and the area where our new house had been built was filling in with more and more houses...the meadowlarks moved on as well.
Happy childhood memories plotting evil deeds to my sisters ....
Wild roses growing in abundance in an undeveloped part of Winnipeg where my dad purchased land to build a family home. They smelled so beautiful and were a plain flower to earn the name "rose" but I liked their
smiling faces.
In that same area I woke each spring through autumn to the strident calling of the Meadowlark and when we
finally moved to B.C. and the area where our new house had been built was filling in with more and more houses...the meadowlarks moved on as well.
Happy childhood memories plotting evil deeds to my sisters ....
Actually the sugar maples don't die after some of the sap has been drained. Neat thing about them is that they seem to sense sap being drained so they up the production of it. As long as they are watered well, they just keep going and going and ....
Kathie, I don't know where you live, but here in BC there is no end of C. geese.
I'd be happy with those, too.
Oh, gawd, I know! I was outside eating a sandwich one day and pondering my flowers or something and one came along to sit on my shoulder and see what I was eating. lol Only other bird to do that was a hummer apparently in need of a little rest.
Yeah, larks are nice, too.
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What if we genetically and/or dietarily modify arctic ptarmigan like US AMD has been playing with live-stock nutrients since the middle 90's?
What if we genetically and/or dietarily modify arctic ptarmigan like US AMD has been playing with live-stock nutrients since the middle 90's?
Getting real, what should be the office Bird and Flower of Canada? Seriously.
I think the Official Bird of Canada should be the House Sparrow:
And I think the Official Flower of Canada should be the Dandelion:
The bird- the Robin, the flower- the Lupin, now that that is settled what else do you need to know? :lol:
The Loon should be Canada's official national bird. It kind of already is, backing up our coinage.. like the bald eagle does in the U.S. That eerie call of their's that i heard all the time when on canoeing trips to Algonquin gives it a mystical presence in wild places.. like no other bird.
As for a national flower, the problem is it is hard to find one flower that symbolizes such a diverse biological area. The plants of the northern tundra are unique and grow no where else, the same for each of the botanical regions of Canada. I like the Trillium or Wild Rose.. but both those are taken by provinces.
I guess i'd nominate the Pine Cone.. It's a seed pod (i think), not really a flower, but i don't think you need to draw the definition too tightly. Scotland uses the thistle as its symbol, and its not a flower. The Pine Cone is everwhere in Canada, has a nice rustic appearance, and always appears to be hunkered down to the survive the winter, before setting down its roots.
As for a national flower, the problem is it is hard to find one flower that symbolizes such a diverse biological area. The plants of the northern tundra are unique and grow no where else, the same for each of the botanical regions of Canada. I like the Trillium or Wild Rose.. but both those are taken by provinces.
I guess i'd nominate the Pine Cone.. It's a seed pod (i think), not really a flower, but i don't think you need to draw the definition too tightly. Scotland uses the thistle as its symbol, and its not a flower. The Pine Cone is everwhere in Canada, has a nice rustic appearance, and always appears to be hunkered down to the survive the winter, before setting down its roots.
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