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Volume 33, Number 2 June 2017 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 and 10th 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! The Egret March 2017 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 Page 2 The Egret March 2017 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. Page 3 The Egret March 2017 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. Page 4 The Egret March 2017 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. Page 5 The Egret March 2017 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.
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