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Volume 32, Number 38 June 2016 Volume 32, Number 38 June 2016 The Egret the Newsletter of the Essex County Field Naturalists’ Club Inside this issue … Upcoming ECFNC Activities ECFNC Activities at a Glance ......... 1 July 2nd – Windsor Butterfly Count ECFNC Contacts .............................. 2 th Pelee Island Trip .............................. 3 July 13 – Lyme Disease Talk – Windsor Essex County Health Unit Little River Clean-up ...................... 4 Wild Flower Walk .......................... 8 August 10th – Finding Birds in Essex County Earth Day Planting ......................... 10 th th Bake Sale Summary ....................... 12 September 10 and 11 – Blue Kestrel Café at the Lil Reg Tree Planting ..................... 12 Hawk Festival Pelee and Hillman Outing .............. 14 September 14th – Purple Martin Populations Forests Ontario Planting ................ 15 Bluebird Summary 2015 ................ 16 Activities and Events ..................... 22 Membership Form .......................... 23 ECFNC Monthly Meetings Except for our annual dinner in November, monthly members’ meeting are held the second Wednesday of the month at 7:30 pm at Ojibway Nature Center, 5200 Matchette Road, Windsor, 519-966-5852. We also have monthly outings, posted in the ‘Activities and Excursions’ section of this newsletter as well as on our website. Visit our Website at essexcountynature.com Eastern Bluebird Photo By Clarine Maiolani A great big Thank-You to everyone Save the Date! who submitted articles and photos to Our 32nd Annual Dinner will be November the Egret this month. We always 5th. appreciate your submissions and Speaker: Bat Expert, Brock Fenton couldn’t run this newsletter without them! The Egret June 2016 About the Club … ECFNC Contacts The Essex County Field Naturalists’ President: Jesse Gardner Costa ([email protected]) Club was incorporated in March 1985. Vice-President: Tom Preney ([email protected]) We are a registered charitable Secretary: JoAnn Grondin (519-734-0056) organization which promotes the Treasurer: Cathy Lapain ([email protected]) appreciation and conservation of our Membership Secretary: Carl Maiolani ([email protected], 519-972-1399) natural heritage. ECFNC provides the Directors: community opportunities to become Linda Menard-Watt (519-734-1879) acquainted with and understand our Dave Krause (519-825-7491) natural world through identification, Kory Renaud ([email protected]) maintenance and preservation of the Sarah Baldo (519-300-0039) natural areas within Essex County and Claire Sanders ([email protected]) surrounding regions. ECFNC is Steve Marks ([email protected]) affiliated with Ontario Jessica Rose ([email protected]) Nature/Federation of Ontario Paul Pratt ([email protected]) Naturalists. The Egret is published Jeremy Hatt ([email protected]) quarterly. To receive information on the Essex County Field Naturalists’ Chairpersons/Liaisons: Ontario Nature Liaison: JoAnn Grondin Club or to submit articles, letters, ERCA Liaison: Sarah Baldo reports, etc., please write to: ERCA Conservation Areas Advisory Committee for park management: Sarah Baldo and Tom Preney Essex County Field Naturalists’ Bluebird Committee Chairman: Don Bissonnette Club Essex County Land Stewardship Liaison: Linda Menard- c/o Ojibway Nature Centre Watt 5200 Matchette Rd. Ojibway Liaison: Tom Preney Windsor On, N9C 4E8 Citizens Environment Alliance Liaison: Jesse Gardner Costa Windsor Essex County Environmental Committee: Jesse Information Gardner Costa Canada South Land Trust Liaison: Dave Kraus Detroit River Canadian Cleanup Liaison: Claire Sanders and ECFNC website Steve Marks www.essexcountynature.com Egret email: Committees: Egret Editorial: Sheeva Nakhaie (chair), Sarah Baldo, Betty [email protected] Learmouth, Jessica Rose ECFNC fax # 519-839-4795 Field Trips: The Executive Heritage: JoAnn Grondin (coordinator), Dave Kraus, Betty Ojibway Nature Centre Learmouth, Jim McAllister, Bruno Sfalcin, Gerry Waldron, Shirley Grondin, Cathy Lapain, Rachel Hasson 519-966-5852 Little River Enhancement Group: Ian Naisbitt (chair), Jesse Point Pelee National Park Gardner Costa 519-322-5700 Fish Book: Dave Kraus, Jesse Gardner Costa Essex Region Conservation Auth. Website: Sarah Baldo, Kory Renaud (co chairs) Social Media: Kory Renaud and Sarah Baldo 519-776-5209 Page 2 The Egret June 2016 Pelee Island Trip By: Kendall Woodfield The trip to Pelee Island was a little earlier this year, so apart from the vegetation being at an earlier stage, we missed sharing the ferry with the Freemasons, who are quite a jovial lot, who usually go over at the same time to open up their lodge. So as much as I missed the atmosphere, there was more room to move. The bare trees and grey skies were not cheered up by the "shoe tree" a home for lost or no longer wanted shoes of all kinds, never to walk again. I also noted a used wine bottle tree in someone's garden and wondered if the tree would be able to bear the weight as the Summer progressed. The memorable places are the always dramatic Lighthouse, which seemed desolate this year and looked as if all life had abandoned it, until two seagulls flew above and made noises that even a non-birder as myself would recognise. Fish Point is always fascinating, and today showed the difference between both sides very clearly. One side is like a walk in the woods, with fallen trees that were negotiated clumsily by myself, which was at odds with being in a Spring Wonderland with abundant colourful groundcover, a setting fit for Hiawatha to sprint out of. The lake water on this side was wilder than I have ever seen or heard it. A walk to the other side of the point, a matter of seconds, felt like walking into a different country, where the sun was out and the lake water still and almost silent, a change came over the group as they warmed up and started chatting. We went past the home of Mary and John Celestino, where Dave K. had taken us on two occasions, each memorable for the warm welcome given to us. They both passed away within a couple of years of each other, and although I am only a passing acquaintance I will remember his quiet reserve, but friendliness and her youthful enthusiasm for her garden of native plants, and she needed it, as there was always plenty to do in that garden, from early morning onwards. Her crusade against garlic mustard was more than evident on her walks with us, and she was always the last one trailing behind, vanquishing the enemy as she went. The weather was colder and windier than on my previous visits and not being in the class of experienced outdoors person, who know to carry, on their person, clothes for all eventualities, I found myself on the Krause property, which was giving Wuthering Heights a run for it's money, toque-less and glove-less with little comfort from seeing others in the same position. Here we saw some snake habitats, built by Dave and his father, some were built of stone, piled up and looking very stone-age authentic and others were made from straw, compressed into large squares and covered with wire, the gauge only allowing in smaller creatures. Various snakes were seen that day, and a salamander, much to the delight of the group. Just at the end of out trip, on the Sunday, we witnessed something which I think made us, Page 3 The Egret June 2016 who witnessed it, feel uplifted. Megan and Adam, the fit, young people in the group, helping one another, like they had been training for this for years, released a bird caught, we were told in a rooftop trap for at least 24 hours. What the trap was doing there and for what purpose, is a mystery to me, in this wildlife haven, but the bird flew away...free at last! And this is why a non-bird watcher loves Pelee Island. Little River Twin Oaks Cleanup Event Kelly Laforest, Caroline Biribauer and Ian Naisbitt The Little River flows north through the Twin Oaks Business Park, in East Windsor. This location is immediately south of E. C. Row Expressway, east of Lauzon Parkway and north of the Canadian Pacific Railroad tracks. On 16 November 2015, the City of Windsor officially designated the city owned property within the Little River corridor a municipal park. Consequently, our partnership decided to clean up the area around the cul-de-sac of Munich Court. History: In the early 1980’s, the former golf course owner drastically altered the river course from its original natural state. A dam was constructed to restrict the flow of water, the river was dredged and the natural slope of the valley was filled with earth, until it was nothing more than a U-shaped drainage ditch. Due to the severe slope of the riverbank, plants were unable to take hold and that made the banks erosion prone. Sections of the streambank “slumped” after the Spring thaw sending soil to the river bottom. Consequently, a “muddy river” would flow during high water levels. The environmental quality of this section of river was identified in the Little River Comprehensive Stream Study Report (1992) as being “impaired or degraded.” Flora and fauna observations by the Little River Stewardship Study/ Biological Inventory in the Twin Oaks Corridor (1994) included: American Toad, Black Oak, Muskrat, Red Fox, Slippery Elm, Great-Horned Owl, Leopard Frog, American Basswood, Fox Snake (species at risk), Staghorn Sumac, Red - tailed Hawk, Shagbark Hickory and Snapping Turtle. The Twin Oaks Golf Course was sold to the City of Windsor to be developed as a Business Park. This section of Little River was isolated and, unfortunately, many people used the area as a convenient dumpsite. Therefore, the Little River Enhancement Group (Lil’ Reg) targeted this area and mobilized our volunteers for 4 cleanup events: Saturday, 23 April and Saturday, 22 October 1994; Saturday, 20 April and Saturday, 19 October 1996. Page 4 The Egret June 2016 1997 – 1998: The major, “Little River Rehabilitation at Twin Oaks Business Park Project,” was carried out by the City of Windsor with various partners.
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