Volume 33, Number 2 June 2017 ------
The Egret the Newsletter of the Essex County Field Naturalists’ Club
Inside this issue … Upcoming ECFNC Activities
ECFNC Activities at a Glance ...... 1 ECFNC Contacts ...... 2 August 9th – Prescribed Burns Talk Bake Sale Report ...... 3 Earth Day Tree Planting ...... 4 Boundary Tree Info ...... 5 August 20th – Bug Hike Little River Clean-up ...... 6 Pelee Island Trip ...... 8 Lower Detroit River IBA ...... 10 Sept 9th & 10th – Blue Kestrel Café at the Community Tree Plant……………12 Hawk Fest Activities and Events ...... 15 Membership Form ...... 16 th November 4 – Save the date for our Annual Dinner!
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, Calling all volunteers! posted in the ‘Activities and Excursions’ section of this newsletter as well as on our website. Visit our Website at essexcountynature.com The Blue Kestrel Café at the Hawk Fest needs you!
th The Café will be open the weekend of Sept 9 A great big Thank-You to everyone th and 10 who submitted articles and photos to the Egret this month. We always For more information and to Volunteer: appreciate your submissions and Call JoAnn couldn’t run this newsletter without 519-734-0056 them!
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About the Club … ECFNC Contacts
The Essex County Field Naturalists’ President: Paul Pratt ([email protected]) Club was incorporated in March 1985. Vice-President: Steve Marks ([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 Kraus (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 Andy Paul affiliated with Ontario Jeremy Bensette ([email protected]) Nature/Federation of Ontario Tom Preney ([email protected]) Naturalists. The Egret is published quarterly. To receive information on Chairpersons/Liaisons: Ontario Nature Liaison: JoAnn Grondin the Essex County Field Naturalists’ ERCA Liaison: Sarah Baldo Club or to submit articles, letters, ERCA Conservation Areas Advisory Committee for park reports, etc., please write to: management: Sarah Baldo and Tom Preney Bluebird Committee Chairman: Don Bissonnette Essex County Field Naturalists’ Essex County Land Stewardship Liaison: Linda Menard- Club Watt c/o Ojibway Nature Centre Ojibway Liaison: Tom Preney 5200 Matchette Rd. Citizens Environment Alliance Liaison: Jesse Gardner Costa Windsor On, N9C 4E8 Windsor Essex County Environmental Committee: Jesse Gardner Costa Information Canada South Land Trust Liaison: Dave Kraus Detroit River Canadian Cleanup Liaison: Claire Sanders and Steve Marks ECFNC website www.essexcountynature.com Committees: Egret email: Egret Editorial: Jessica Rose Field Trips: Alexis Hand (chair), Paul Pratt, Ian Woodfield [email protected] Heritage: JoAnn Grondin (coordinator), Dave Kraus, Betty ECFNC fax # 519-839-4795 Learmouth, Jim McAllister, Gerry Waldron, Shirley Grondin, Cathy Lapain, Rachel Hasson Ojibway Nature Centre Little River Enhancement Group: Ian Naisbitt (chair), Jesse Gardner Costa 519-966-5852 Fish Book: Dave Kraus, Jesse Gardner Costa Point Pelee National Park Website: Sarah Baldo, Kory Renaud (co chairs) 519-322-5700 Social Media: Kory Renaud and Sarah Baldo Membership: Jeremy Hatt (chair), Paula O’Rourke, Carl Essex Region Conservation Auth. Maiolani, Jessica Rose 519-776-5209
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Heritage Committee Earth Day Bake Sale, April 23, 2017
By Cathy Lapain
Many people came to buy some goodies this year, we had a good variety of baked goods and a few sandwiches. The City of Windsor approached us about selling coffee, tea and vegie chili. Of course we said yes, they provided us with a few volunteers, the chili from Green Bean Café and also donated the coffee cups and spaghetti stir sticks.
Thanks to those you brought in bake goods (please let me know if I missed anyone) Shirley Grondin, JoAnn Grondin, Peggy Hurst, Annie Wiltshire, Darlene Stracke, Andy Paul, Gina Pannunzio, Donna Vazzoler, The Maiolani Family, Ralph & Theresa Benoit, Claire McAllister, Jessica Rose, Pauline Renaud, Joan Walker, Cathy Lapain, Pearl Brad and Kathy Lesperance. Also many thanks to those who helped sell the bake goods, Claire McAllister, Jessica Rose, Pauline Renaud, Linda Menard-Watt, Kathy Lesperance, and JoAnn Grondin. Thanks to Shirley Grondin for help setting up. A great big thank you to all those who purchased our goodies.
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Earth Day 2017 Planting Event
Gina Pannuncio and Ian Naisbitt
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago and the next best time is today.” ~Chinese Proverb
On Sunday, 23 April, the Windsor-Essex community celebrated Earth Day 2017 by planting 2205 trees and shrubs. We moved to a new location this year in the Little River Corridor Park. Planting took place on both sides of the Ganatchio Trail south of Wyandotte Street East.
Over 1000 community volunteers participated in this event! Volunteers worked from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Mother Nature provided an outstanding day for planting trees: sunny with a clear, blue sky and mild temperatures over the morning. In other words, it was a wonderful Spring day to plant trees and shrubs!
The species of trees we planted included: White Oak, American Elm, Pin Oak, Red Maple, Burr Oak, Sycamore, Swamp White Oak, Silver Maple, Shumard Oak, Tulip Tree and Eastern Cottonwood.
Little River Corridor Park, between Riverside Drive and McHugh Street, has now benefitted from the planting of 15709 trees and shrubs since May 1990. The recreation trails throughout the area will permit people to make the much needed connection with nature; they may even be lucky enough to experience the different species of wildlife that call this area home.
Wildlife observed in the area included: Canada Goose, Mute Swan, Red-winged Blackbird, Eastern Cottontail and Mallard Duck. In the stormwater retention pond, the Mute Swan displayed aggressive behaviour toward the Canada Goose; the swan’s wings were uplifted and curved as it swam toward the goose, the goose’s head was lowered as it swam away from the swan. Eventually, the goose flew away and the swan owned the pond. A wildlife highlight for the day for Ian was seeing the Bald Eagles that were nesting nearby. One was in the nest and the other was flying in a big circle around the nest. We see this as nature sending the tree planters a message of approval: “When a pair of Bald Eagles decided to build their nest in the Little River Watershed, we took that as a validation that all of our efforts have been worthwhile.”
Planning for the event was done by the Essex Region Conservation Authority, Detroit River Canadian Cleanup Committee and the City of Windsor. DRCC funded the trees via Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change. Event organizers appreciated the efforts from the 15 “How To Crew” volunteers who were an incredible force for planting trees.
Whenever people do something good to make the Earth a better place to live, they can go home satisfied that they have made a difference.
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Some very important information that everyone should know about. Forwarded to us by Dave Kraus.
https://boundarytrees.com
This website contains updated information for homeowners in Ontario about their rights and responsibilities regarding a tree whose trunk crosses a property lines. In Toronto alone there are thousands of trees with trunks growing across property lines (as is the case elsewhere in Ontario). As line-to-line home construction becomes more common, many of the trees at the edges of properties have been targeted for removal, often deeply impacting neighbors as well as the overall tree-canopy of a neighborhood. These boundary trees are often mature trees and their destruction/injury can also have a quite significant impact on the larger urban canopy. Their preservation is therefore something to be considered in any construction project.
Many citizens in Ontario are unaware that boundary-trees are protected by law and that they have rights as co-owners to be consulted in cases where a construction project affects boundary trees.
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Little River Twin Oaks Cleanup Event
Kelly Laforest, Gina Pannuncio, Karina Richters, Claire Sanders and Ian Naisbitt
The CodeGreen group from Caesars Windsor chose to clean up the Twin Oaks Parkland site again. The Little River flows north through this site 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. Plans were made to cleanup on Tuesday, 4 April, however Mother Nature made other arrangements. Gina Pannuncio wrote:
“The Little River Cleanup scheduled for this evening has been cancelled due to inclement weather and poor site conditions. The entire area is under 2 feet (60 centimetres) of water at the moment, and it would be difficult to collect litter due to how muddy and wet the ground is.
We are likely going to reschedule the cleanup for next Tuesday, April 11th 2017 from 5pm to 7pm and will follow-up with those details as soon as they are confirmed with our other partners. If you are able to attend next week, please let me know and we can count you in for dinner.”
On Tuesday, 11 April, over 50 volunteers participated in the cleanup event. Mother Nature cooperated this time: mix of sun and cloud (mostly cloud), with daytime temps at 18 C, wind southwest 20 km/ h and gusting to 50 (wind chill)! Overall, a wonderful day for a cleanup. Our eager volunteers cleaned up from 5 to 7:00 p.m. This was the 6th time community volunteers have cleaned up rubbish from the Twin Oaks area.
Along with the CodeGreen group, there were volunteers from the City of Windsor, the Detroit River Canadian Cleanup Committee, Computers for Kids, Essex County Nature and the Little River Enhancement Group. This vigorous working group collected an impressive pile of garbage. The parkland looks a lot better because of our efforts.
List of Garbage from Little River Cleanup Event # 39:
Asphalt roofing shingles; Automobile floor mats, plastic bumper and grill and tires; Bags of litter (several); Basketball net, post and base; Carpet; Computer; Concrete sidewalk pieces; Industrial conveyor belt; Landscaping cloth; Patio stones; Plastic items: bottles, jugs, toolbox, garden sprayer, flower planter and pails;
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Plywood pieces and other construction wood; Railroad ties; Shopping cart; Snowmobile rubber track; Swimming pool ladder, coping and hose; Wood fence posts with concrete base; Wood pallets
We always try to record our wildlife sightings as well: Turkey Vulture, Mallard Ducks (nesting), Eastern Cottontail, baby mole, American Robin, Mourning Dove, family of mice, Canada Goose pair and an unidentified frog that jumped into the standing water of a wheel rut.
Our partnership appreciates CodeGreen for mobilizing their volunteers and helping to coordinating this cleanup event. They have expressed an interest to clean up the Hawthorne site again in the autumn. We look forward to working with them in the future. Also, we would like to express a big thank you to the City of Windsor/ Parks Division for hauling the garbage away; placing the cement barriers and assisting our group with the cleanup. Together, our partnership will endeavour to create a natural area that will improve the ecosystem health of the Little River and Detroit River Watersheds.
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Pelee Island Trip 2017! By: Jessica Rose
This year’s group met at the Leamington dock bundled, layered and hopeful for nice weather. With rain in the forecast, we were dressed and ready for anything. Luckily, as the Jiimaan was pulling away, the sun peeked out from behind the clouds foreshadowing what ended up being a beautiful weekend with sun and a lovely breeze. This years group included Dave and Megan Kraus, myself, Craig Finnigan, Shirley Grondin, Maxine, Denise, and Karen Hartley, Sharon Medeiros, Ian Woodfield, Bonnie Ross, Tracey Colenutt, Harpinder and Grinder Dandiwal, Nancy Cristofoli, Andy Paul and our wonderful bus driver Linda.
As per the usual routine, we arrived at the Anchor and Wheel Inn to choose our beds and get fueled up with a nice lunch. This year we had an excellent buffet that was hot and ready for our arrival. The group, having warmed up with soup and coffee boarded the bus to visit the Kraus property. From the bus we saw an egret, a pheasant, and a fox squirrel. This wasn’t a very long bus ride, so that was a very exciting start. On Dave’s beautifully naturalized property, we saw wood ducks (a lifer for me that surprised the group), a great blue heron, and the aftermath of strong winds and storms. There was one big cottonwood in particular that is now at rest horizontally as a result of a recent storm event. Somehow seeing a giant tree laying down makes it seem even bigger than when it is stretching toward the sky. Also thanks to the rain it was a very muddy trek to get good views of the ponds and swallow nest boxes. Those that had rubber boots to brave the mud were rewarded with sightings of some pretty impressive crayfish chimneys.
Our next stop is one of my favourite spots on the island. We parked the bus and hiked the Lighthouse Point Trail. The early part of the trail is bordered by wetlands where we typically see many turtles. This year we had some nice painted turtle sightings. My warbler ID skills are still in development, so I was feeling happy and accomplished to get good sightings of both the palm warbler and the yellow rumped warbler. Along the Megan Kraus by the fallen Cottonwood beach, though, my attention is drawn away from the birds and gets focused on finding beach glass and flint with Megan. She has a great eye for finding beach glass and I’m told she has quite the collection at home! Very notably,
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the group was impressed by all of the exposed tree roots along the shore of the beach. The shore has been barraged by the wet and wild spring we had.
Our next stop, was Middle Point Woods where Dave shared his plant ID skills with us as he pointed out blue phlox, damesrocket, dead nettle and motherwort. There was an interesting yellow flower at the side of a ditch that stumped even Dave. I believe the post-trip identification ended on it being an escaped tulip species-- sadly non-native.
We made a few quick and exciting stops after that: to visit the old rusted truck that nature is reclaiming on the Brown’s road trail, and from the bus, we appreciated two beautiful male eastern bluebirds that were near the nesting boxes at the Florian Diamante Nature Reserve. Our stop in front of the Freemason lodge saw the group split in two for a few minutes. Those of us that stayed to rest our legs a moment enjoyed the lilac bushes, and an unfortunately close look at a lifeless scarlet tanager.
Dinner at the Anchor and Wheel in was delicious as per usual. The evening was quiet, I personally was quite tired after an exciting day.
After a good night’s sleep and a filling hot breakfast, we took our customary group photo and then boarded the bus for Fish Point. There were red and white trilliums in bloom, lots of vocal geese, and both green frogs and bullfrogs singing. At the point, we saw yellow rumped warbler, yellow warbler and a phoebe. A new plant sighting for myself was the rare appendaged waterleaf. Myself and a handful of others took the lunchtime ferry back to the mainland. So this was our last stop of the trip.
On behalf of those that attended this year’s Pelee Island Trip, I would like to thank Dave for arranging and leading this annual expedition. His enthusiasm and wealth of knowledge make for a great way to learn about and explore the island. This was my third time attending the trip and my third time going to the island, and I have to say, I’m not sure it would be as fun to go without such a friendly and knowledgeable group.
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Official Bird List from the Pelee Island trip as provided by Ian Woodfield: 1 Horned Grebe 25 Caspian Tern 49 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 American White Pelican 26 Morning Dove 50 Blue-grey Gnatcather 3 Double-crested Cormorant 27 Belted Kingfisher 51 Eastern Bluebird 4 Great Blue Heron 28 Red-headed Woodpecker 52 Swainsons Thrush 5 Great Egret 29 Red-bellied Woodpecker 53 Hermit Thrush 6 Turkey Vulture 30 Downy Woodpecker 54 American Robin 7 Canada Goose 31 Hairy Woodpecker 55 Grey Catbird 8 Wood Duck 32 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 56 European Starling 9 Mallard 33 Northern Flicker 57 Cedar Waxwing 10 Common Merganser 34 Eastern Phoebe 58 Yellow Warbler 11 Red-breasted Merganser 35 Eastern Kingbird 59 Yellow-rumped Warbler 12 Bald Eagle 36 Blue-headed Vireo 60 Black-throated Green Warbler 13 Red-tailed Hawk 37 Warbling Vireo 61 Pine Warbler 14 Ring-necked Pheasant 38 Philadelphia Vireo 62 Palm Warbler 15 Wild Turkey 39 Blue Jay 63 American Redstart 16 American Coot 40 American Crow 64 Common Yellowthroat 17 Sora 41 Purple Martin 65 Scarlet Tanager 18 Black-bellied Plover 42 Tree Swallow 66 Chipping Sparrow 19 Killdeer 43 Barn Swallow 67 White-throated Sparrow 20 Lesser Yellowlegs 44 Black-capped Chickadee 68 Northern Cardinal 21 Solitary Sandpiper 45 Red-breasted Nuthatch 69 Red-winged Blackbird 22 Dunlin 46 White-breasted Nuthatch 70 Common Grackle 23 Ring-billed Gull 47 Carolina Wren 71 Brown-headed Cowbird 24 Herring Gull 48 House Wren 72 Baltimore Oriole 73 House Finch 74 American Gold Finch 75 House Sparrow
2017 Lower Detroit River IBA Waterfowl Count Results
By: Jeremy Hatt
During the winter of 2017, ECFNC participated in its first annual waterfowl count of the Lower Detroit River IBA. The IBA (Important Bird Area) Program is run through Birdlife International and Bird Studies Canada. The Club became a Caretaker for the IBA in 2016. The Lower Detroit River has IBA status because of its high numbers of staging waterfowl in the winter months. Canvasbacks overwinter in the largest numbers of the wintering waterfowl on the Detroit River but other species like Redhead and Common and Red- breasted Mergansers can also be found in large numbers.
This past winter, ECFNC performed two official waterfowl counts for the Lower Detroit River IBA on January 28 and February 25. Unfortunately, the weather was not quite in our favour for either of the dates (we even experienced rain on February 25!). With a milder winter, the lower Detroit River only occasionally froze up and so waterfowl were free to move between the open waters of Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie without getting concentrated at the mouths of the Detroit River. Even under these conditions, it was still great to get out as a group and contribute to citizen science.
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Count sites for the two surveys included Willowood Beach, Amherstburg Birding and Nature Trail, the Detroit River mouth from Front Road, Boblo Ferry Terminal, Kings Navy Yard Park, Amherstburg Visitor Centre, Alma Street lookout, Angstrom Park, Canal Street lookout, Cooper’s Marina, K. Walter Ranta Marina, Wahneta Avenue lookout, and Gil Maure Park.
On the January 28 survey, 11 participants counted a total of 1565 Canvasbacks, 1790 Redhead, 2 Greater Scaup, 9 Bufflehead, 47 Common Goldeneye, and 162 Common Mergansers.
Participants of the first Lower Detroit River IBA Waterfowl Count gathered at Kings Navy Yard Park. Left to right: Kory Renaud, Dave Martin, Linda Wldarski, Bob Sanford, Dan Loncke. Photo by Jeremy Hatt.
On the February 25 survey, 5 participants tallied a total of 573 Canvasbacks, 60 Redhead, 199 Greater Scaup, 1 Lesser Scaup, 100 Greater/Lesser Scaup, 8 Bufflehead,
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14 Common Goldeneye, 18 Common Mergansers, 27 Red-breasted Mergansers, and 5 Hooded Mergansers.
Other highlights from the counts included a Glaucous Gull found by Kory Renaud and me at Kings Navy Yard Park on January 28 and a Red-necked Grebe on the river seen from Angstrom Park by Dave Martin and Linda Wldarski.
Although we did not reach the ‘trigger’ number for Canvasback on the official count dates (8,000 Canvasback, or greater than 1% of the global population), we did manage to reach these numbers on two other impromptu survey dates.
On January 14, Kory Renaud and I did a survey from the Detroit River mouth in Amherstburg to the Wahneta Avenue lookout in LaSalle and counted a total of 10,200 Canvasbacks. Amazingly, 8,000 of these birds were counted just from Angstrom Park alone! It was breathtaking to witness 4,000 of these birds taking flight at once. On February 12, Dave Martin and Linda Wldarski surveyed from the Detroit River mouth to Gil Maure Park in LaSalle and tallied 8,910 Canvasbacks.
My sincere thanks to all of the participants who made our first year of counting the Lower Detroit River IBA a great success: Alana Demko, Paul Desjardins, Zachary Kahn, Dan Loncke, Carl Maiolani, Dave Martin, Elaine Price, Kory Renaud, Bob Sanford, Linda Wladarski, and Ian Woodfield. Thank you also to Amanda Bichel of Bird Studies Canada for helping coordinate the counts and compiling the data from eBird.
If you are interested in volunteering for the waterfowl counts for 2018, you can contact me at [email protected].
The following is a link to a short YouTube video of the Lower Detroit River IBA by the Detroit River Canadian Cleanup (DRCC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgpTmo2gAtI.
Forests Ontario 2017
Community Tree Plant – Windsor
Paul Giroux, Gina Pannunzio and Ian Naisbitt
On Saturday, 6 May, the Windsor-Essex community celebrated the “Community Tree Plant” event with Forests Ontario. Essex County Nature was invited to participate by Paul Giroux, City of Windsor Forester.
Along with Forests Ontario and the City of Windsor, the partnership included: TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, Ontario Wood and the Essex Region Conservation Authority.
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This is the fifth year in a row our group has supported the Forests Ontario initiative; the planting sites have been located in the Little River Watershed in East Windsor. Tranby Park was planted last year and we returned this year to further expand the woodland in the park. However, we needed to replace some of the trees that died in last summer’s drought conditions. The woodland in Tranby Park is on the edge of the Little River Watershed boundary. Consequently, the Little River Enhancement Group will include the trees planted today, 170, in our watershed total of 39085.
Mother Nature has been giving us a severe weather-beating lately; the forecast for Saturday was gruesome: pelting rain, cool temp of 6 C, winds of 30 km/ h – gusting to 50 km/ h, which meant a wind chill factor as well. We were not happy with the forecast, but we had a bunch of trees to put into the ground. Thankfully, we woke up Saturday morning to find the sun shining! What a wonderful change: it turned out to be 7 C at 9 a.m. and rose to 11 C by noon, quite balmy for us lately; blustery wind for sure, but no rain! Whew, thank you Mother Nature.
Over 30 hardy community volunteers (children, parents and grandparents) participated by digging holes; planting and mulching the trees! Volunteers worked from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The ground was saturated and the Brookston Clay was as sticky as toffee! That made the digging and placing the clay back into the hole a challenge. There will be no need to water these trees for awhile, some of the holes looked like buckets filled with water! The species of trees that we planted included: Burr Oak, Swamp White Oak, American Elm, Basswood, Pin Oak, Freeman’s Maple and American Sycamore.
Plans are in place for Forests Ontario to return to Tranby Park for future Forests Ontario “Community Tree Plant” celebrations. We look forward to receiving our invitation next year to expand the woodland further into Tranby Park.
ABOUT FORESTS ONTARIO Forests Ontario is the voice for our forests. Working to promote a future of healthy forests sustaining healthy people, Forests Ontario is committed to the re- greening of Ontario through tree planting efforts on rural lands and in urban areas, as well as the renewal and stewardship of Ontario's forests through restoration, education and awareness. Visit www.forestsontario.ca or follow us @Forests_Ontario.
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Some of the Robust Volunteers
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” NELSON HENDERSON
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Activities and Events
For further information concerning the ECFNC excursions, visit www.essexcountynature.com, or contact the executive (please see contact page). Let us know your ideas for upcoming excursions. Consider volunteering as an excursion leader!
August 9th, Prescribed Burns Talk 7:30pm, Ojibway Nature Centre- Our monthly meeting features a talk on prescribed burns delivered by Brian Burnette.
August 20, 2017 We're Goin' On A Bug Hunt Time: 1pm-3pm Location: Brunet Park Get to know those crawlies before you call them "creepy". Meet with Angela Demarse, amateur entomologist, for a leisurely hike through Brunet Park. We'll talk about the major categories of insects in an active learning setting that engages both children and adults alike. Bring along a bug net and jar (one with vent holes is best) if you're interested in getting up-close and personal with Essex County's beautiful, colorful and sometimes strange variety of native insects.
Sept. 9th and 10th - Hawk Festival. We will once again open our Blue Kestrel Café at the Hawk Fesitval. Volunteers are needed. Call JoAnn if you would like to help (519- 734-0056). Watch for more news regarding this event.
September 13th, Monthly Meeting, 7:30pm, Ojibway Nature Centre- Stay tuned via email and on our website for details about our guest speaker for this monthly meeting.
November 4th Annual Dinner - Save the Date for our 33rd Annual Dinner. More information to follow.
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Essex County Field Naturalists’ Club Membership Form – Due annually
Individual membership $20.00 / year ______Family membership $25.00 / year ______Student (full-time) $10.00 / year ______Tax Receipt Eligible: Life membership $500.00 ______Donation ______
Publications: Wildflowers of the Canadian Erie Islands by Mary Celestino $15 ______Fishes of Essex County and Surrounding Waters by Lynda D. Corkum $25 _____ www.fishesofessexcounty.com
Name ______
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Province _____ Postal Code ______Phone Number ______
E-mail ______
o Please contact me to volunteer at ECFNC events! Thank you! Make cheques payable to: Essex County Field Naturalists’ Club c/o Ojibway Nature Centre 5200 Matchette Rd. Windsor On, N9C 4E8
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