Ontario Life List

Ontario is beautiful, diverse, and big – so big it takes three days to drive from Toronto to the Manitoba border. It has a rich variety of dragonflies, with boreal/northern species ranging across most of the Canadian shield and a few southern species whose northern range barely extend into the southern toe of the province. My ode-hunting career began in Ottawa where I presently live, and most of my free time in the warmer weather has been spent examining the odonatofauna in the western half of the municipality. My parents live in southern Ontario so I have had many opportunities to explore the parks and conservation areas around Cambridge, Kitchener, and Chatham. Summer vacations in Algonquin Park, Grundy Lake Provincial Park, and Prince Edward County have also provided great ode-hunting experiences, as has my one and only bioblitz outside of the city when I was invited to participate in a formal ode survey for a property in Deep River.