Urban Nature Store

🐦 Products of the Month: Glass Waterer Bird Feeder, Green, Shop Now

An attractive addition to your garden that combines beauty with functionality. This feeder features a durable metal base and a lovely glass container, providing a welcoming spot for a variety of birds. Enjoy the simple maintenance while offering your feathered friends a reliable water source.

🔭 Optics of the Month: New Arrival: Vortex Triumph HD 10x28 Binoculars, Shop Now

No need to overthink it—just grab them and glass. Triumph® HD binoculars focus on what truly matters, giving new and casual hunters the confidence to scan the woods and spot game with ease. With fully multi-coated lenses and a rugged, no-nonsense design, you can stay focused on the hunt—not your gear.

📚 Book of the Month: Southern Ontario Nature Guide, Shop Now

This full-colour book is the perfect companion for anyone who likes to take a close look at nature. From bugs to birds, wildflowers to reptiles, this pocket-size book gives key information on the creatures and plants found in parks, woodlands and wilderness areas in Southwest Ontario.

Goldfinch. Colonel Samuel Smith Park, Toronto.
Photo provided by Zunaid Khan

Male Baltimore Oriole. Taken on one of birding walks this spring in Colonel Samuel Smith Park.
Photo provided by Zunaid Khan

🎉 BONUS SIDEWALK SALE — OSHAWA! 🎉

Visit our Oshawa Urban Nature Store location this Saturday and shop our special Sidewalk Sale with savings up to 50% OFF select items! 🛍️🐦

Clearance finds, seasonal favourites, birding products & more while quantities last.

📍 Oshawa Location - 370 Taunton Rd E, Oshawa, ON L1K 1A8, Canada
📅 Saturday May 30, 2026

Yesterday I wrapped up a fantastic presentation and evening with the North York Garden Club talking about one of my favourite topics — attracting and helping local birds in our backyards! 🐦🌿

What a fabulous group! So many great questions, stories, and enthusiastic gardeners clearly ready to burst out into the garden now that the weather has finally decided to cooperate! ☀️😂

There was also lots of excitement about our soon-to-open Urban Nature Store in Thornhill, which will help serve north Toronto, Richmond Hill, and Thornhill communities. We couldn’t be more excited ourselves!

Spring is here, the birds are busy, and gardeners are officially back in action! 🌱
Paul Oliver, Founder,
Urban Nature Store

What a morning at Biidaasige Park!

Our free Urban Nature Store birding walk wrapped up with sunshine, spring migrants, and enough warbler excitement to make even the coffee nervous. The birds clearly got the memo — show up in full colour and sing like they own the waterfront. Spoiler alert: they probably do.

Biidaasige Park is one of Toronto’s newest waterfront environmental reclamation projects, transforming formerly industrial lands into vibrant natural habitat designed to support wildlife, native plants, pollinators, and especially migrating birds along the Lake Ontario flyway. It’s a fantastic example of how cities can give nature a proper comeback tour — and the birds are responding beautifully.

Huge thanks to Zunahd, our fearless walk leader, who somehow managed to help everyone spot birds that looked, to the rest of us, like “tiny leaves with opinions.”

Thanks as well to everyone who joined us this morning. Nothing beats great people, great birds, and a reminder that nature is never far away in Toronto.

Paul Oliver
Founder, Urban Nature Store

We’re as busy as a gang of squirrels before winter getting our new Thornhill store ready for opening in late June! 🐿️

Shelves are going up, feeders are arriving, and bird seed seems to be multiplying faster than rabbits in springtime.

We’re incredibly excited to throw open the doors and welcome the amazing Thornhill birding community to the newest location.

Whether you’re a lifelong birder, backyard nature lover, or someone who simply enjoys a good chickadee visit with their morning coffee — we can’t wait to meet you.

Stay tuned… the birds already know where we are. 😉

Paul Oliver
Founder, Urban Nature Store

Spring is here—and so are the birds!🌸🐦 Join us for our Spring Open House on Saturday, May 23, 2026 at all Urban Nature Store locations and enjoy exclusive one-day savings.

🌿 On sale during the event:
All Puzzles
All Bird Houses
All Kids Toys
All Earrings
All Candles
All Books and many more items...

Plus everything you need for backyard birding— See you there.. Your Local Birding & Nature Experts.

Robin. Biidaasige Park, Toronto. These species will often visit feeders. They like sunflower seeds, mealworms, peanut halves and suet.
Photo provided by Zunaid Khan

Savannah Sparrow. Lynde Shores Conservation Area. Photo taken on one of our spring bird walks by Zunaid Khan