® FEBRUARY Program Guide 2020 Amur Tiger at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo ® Fight the Frost Festival 3 | Birds of Prey Day 5 | Winter Nature Retreat 7 FEBRUARY PROGRAMS BY LOCATION Off Site (CWC) CanalWay Center (MSRR) Mill Stream Run Rocky River Nature Center 2 • Kayaking 1: Basic Strokes 1 – 29 • Hunt of the Month Reservation (cont’d) 5 • Mountain Biking Skills Clinic at 1 • Investigating Tracks 7 • Drop-In: A Century of Winter Fun 23 • Bird Banding Ray’s MTB 2 • Story and Stroll 15 • Dog Hike 23 • Cabin Fever Hike 5 • Ice Climbing Adventure Pre-Trip 4 • Snowflakes or Sunglasses? 22 • Weekend Trekking 23 • Snake School 12 • Mountain Biking Skills Clinic at 6 • Cleveland Astronomical Society 26 • Greater Cleveland Beekeepers Ray’s MTB 8 • Great Lakes Exposition 1936 – 1937 (NCR) North Chagrin Reservation Association 18 • Urban Explorations: Burke 9 • Vintage Valentines 1 • Adaptive: Snowshoe/Hike & Camp 29 • From Sun to Syrup Lakefront Airport 11 • Canalway Critters Cooking 29 • Black History Month: The Hero, 19 • Mountain Biking Skills Clinic at 13 • Eager Eagles 1 • Try-It: Snowshoeing Garrett Morgan Ray’s MTB 14 – 17 • Great Backyard Bird Count 17 • Jr. Girl Scouts Day Hike Badge 23 • Adaptive: Kayaking 1 15 • Sloths and Sabretooths: The Ice Age 22 • Adaptive: Snowshoe/Hike & Camp (SCR) South Chagrin Reservation 23 • Kayaking 1: Basic Strokes in Ohio Cooking 1 • Cleveland Natural Science Club 26 • Urban Explorations: Burke 15 • Snow Hike 22 • Try-It: Snowshoeing 2 • One Trail Twelve Times Lakefront Airport 15 – 16 • Drop In: Build a Birdfeeder 29 • Sleeping Giants 7 • Look About Lodge Fireside Concert 26 • Mountain Biking Skills Clinic at 15 • How the Ohio and Erie Canal Series: Bill Lestock Trio Ray’s MTB Created Cleveland (NCNC) North Chagrin Nature 8 • Nature’s Palette: Stories About Color 26 • Kayaking 2: Rescues 16 • Lower 40 Loop Locomotion Center 8 • Nature Journaling 16 • Cargo Ships 1 • Birds and Coffee 14 • Look About Lodge Fireside Concert (AR) Acacia Reservation 17 • Presidents’ Day Promenade 1 • Saturday Night Speaker Series: Series: Brittany Riley Band 27 • New Moon Hike 18 • All About Squirrels Savoring Sicily 15 • Winter Nature Retreat 19 • Dabble with Ducks 2 • Don’t be a Groundhog Play Day 21 • Look About Lodge Fireside Concert (BeR) Bedford Reservation 19 • Young Explorers 3 • North Chagrin Nature Photography Series: Thorne Musica 1 • Frozen Waterfalls Hike 20 • The Frog with a Superpower Club: Hard Water 23 • Craft Workshop: Upcycled Tote Bag 4 • Winter Waterfall 22 • Fight the Frost Festival 8 • Surviving in a Beaver’s World 28 • Look About Lodge Fireside Concert 6 • Cross-Country Skiing 1: Strides – Cookies and Cocoa 8 • Saturday Night Speaker Series: Series: The Swamp Rattlers 11 • Winter Beeches – Carpet Skating Spring in the British Isle 29 • Nature Writing 13 • Cross-Country Skiing 1: Strides – Snow Play 9 • Love Bug Valentine Card Making 18 • Hiking for the Young at Heart – Feathers at the Feeder 13 • Our Treasured Trees Lecture Series (WSC) Watershed Stewardship 22 • Woodlands of Bedford: Winter – Winter Walk 15 • Sweetheart Hike Center Wonderland Trek – Winter Weather 15 • Cabin Fever Folk Tales 6 • Monthly Movie: Inventing Tomorrow 23 • Cross-Country Skiing 1: Strides 23 • Winter Weeds 15 • Pre-K Nature Play 7 • FrogWatch Citizen Science 25 • Forbes Forest 23 • Train Training Talk 15 • Saturday Night Speaker Series: 8 • Drop-by: Papermaking for Our 27 • Outdoor Adventures for 26 • Discovery Days: The Mitten Ghosts of El Dorado Valentines Homeschoolers: Frozen Waterfalls 26 • Wednesday Walk 18 • Little Ducklings: Snow 8 • Tales Around the Emerald Necklace Hike 29 • Backyard Birds 21 • Family Friday Night: The Fantastic 15 • Boneheads for Boneheads 29 • Winter Woodland Wandering Four 20 • For Adults Only: Birds I (CMZ) Cleveland Metroparks Zoo 22 • Dog Hike 21 • For Adults Only: Birds II (BCR) Big Creek Reservation 1 • Boy Scout Vet Badge Overnight 23 • Winter Kids Play Day 22 • For Adults Only: Birds III 7 • Fullish Moon Friday Hike 7 • Tiger Tracks Overnight 22 • Scouts BSA Merit Badge: Mammal 8 • Tiger Tracks Overnight (RRNC) Rocky River Nature Center Study I (BNC) Brecksville Nature Center 11 • Homeschool – Marsupials in the 1 – 27 • Gallery Wall: Gabe Leidy 23 • Scouts BSA Merit Badge: Mammal 1 • Hand-feed a Chickadee* Land Down Under 1 • Geology Drop By Study II 2 • Hand-feed a Chickadee* 17 • Zoo Career Day 2 • Super Mammals Hike 29 • Bedazzled Bugs 2 • Drop-in Discovery: Groundhogs 21 • Tiger Tracks Overnight 2 • What’s a Whistle Pig? Day 22 • Tiger Tracks Overnight 4 • Western Cuyahoga Audubon (WCR) West Creek Reservation 5 • Animal Crackers 28 • Tiger Tracks Overnight Society 8 • New Trail Exploration Hike 7 • Almost Full Moon Hike 29 • Cub Scout Adventure Overnight 4 • Trout Unlimited 14 • “Coup-Owls” Hike 8 • Hand-feed a Chickadee* 5 • Northern Ohio Association of 19 • West Creek Night Hike: Stories of 9 • Hand-feed a Chickadee* (ECR) Euclid Creek Reservation Herpetologists the Stars 9 • Full Moon Hike: The Snow Moon 21 • Phenology Friday Hike 5 • Greater Cleveland Beekeepers 21 • Frosty Forests Hike 15 • Hand-feed a Chickadee* 29 • Birds Along the Creek Association 15 • Drop-in Discovery: Flint & Steel 6 • Little Explorers: Frozen 15 • Pie Iron Cooking: Dinner Entrées (GPC) Garfield Park Center 7 • Nature Baby: Dunkleosteus ABBREVIATIONS: 16 • Hand-feed a Chickadee* 1 • Groundhog Day Discovery 8 • Bird Walk AR Acacia Reservation 16 • Drop-in Discovery: Ohio Mammals 7 • Winter Wellness Walk 8 • Homemade Suet BCR Big Creek Reservation 16 • Evening Movie 14 • Heart Healthy Hike 8 • Love Bug BeR Bedford Reservation 20 • Nurture with Nature 18 • Winter Backpacking Pre-Trip 9 • Birds of Prey Day BNC Brecksville Nature Center 21 • Breakfast for the Birds 10 • Southwest Camera Club BR Brookside Reservation 10 • Cuyahoga Astronomical Association 22 • Read and Feed (HiR) Hinckley Reservation BrR Brecksville Reservation 12 • Greater Cleveland Beekeepers BWR Bradley Woods Reservation 22 • Hand-feed a Chickadee* 2 • Worden’s in Winter Association CMZ Cleveland Metroparks Zoo 23 • Hand-feed a Chickadee* 13 • Bat Romance CWC CanalWay Center 23 • Sunday Crafternoon: Pinecone (HuR) Huntington Reservation 15 • Star-Crossed Lovers ECR Euclid Creek Reservation Masterpieces 16 • Winter Stinks! 16 • Snake School GPC Garfield Park Center 23 • Stories with the Stars: Winter Constellations 18 • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing GPR Garfield Park Reservation (LR) Lakefront Reservation 29 • Hand-feed a Chickadee* 19 • Greater Cleveland Beekeepers HiR Hinckley Reservation 2 • Gulls Galore Association HuR Huntington Reservation 5 • Migrators on the River (BrR) Brecksville Reservation 20 • Homeschool Happenings: Book LR Lakefront Reservation 5 • Waterbirds at Wendy Study MSRR Mill Stream Run Reservation 1 • Emerald Necklace Art Club 5 • Skills & Thrills Series 22 • Family Hike NCNC North Chagrin Nature Center 15 • Extreme Hiking 7 • Birds of the Lakefront 22 • Fauna Folklore NCR North Chagrin Reservation 19 • Skills & Thrills Series 22 • Black History Month: Phillis OECR Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation (BR) Brookside Reservation 28 • The River That Changed a Nation Wheatley Association RRNC Rocky River Nature Center 1 • Balto: Hero of Brookside RRR Rocky River Reservation SCR South Chagrin Reservation NEW THIS ISSUE! Look for the child’s hand symbol next to programs that are designed for our WR Washington Reservation youngest audience. These programs provide education about nature or wildlife with indoor or WCR West Creek Reservation outdoor activities, story-telling, crafts or sing-alongs in a fun, non-competitive environment. WSC Watershed Stewardship Center 2 Emerald Necklace February 2020 | Vol. 69 #2 * See feature block on page 3 for Hand-feed a Chickadee FREE ALL DAY ACTIVITIES! FIGHT THE FROST Join the CanalWay staff and cure your cabin fever with both inside and outside activities for all ages. Join us all day for: • Cookies and Cocoa • Carpet Skating FESTIVAL • Snow Play • Feathers at the Feeder Saturday, February 22 Noon – 4 p.m. Plus other indoor & outdoor activities: CanalWay Center Winter Weather Winter Walk Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation This program will discuss the Join us for a 30 minute walk into the power of water in the winter. Cuyahoga River Valley. We’ll discuss 4524 E. 49th St., Cleveland, OH 44125 The frosty demonstrations some of the birds and other wildlife For more information: 216-206-1000 will last approximately that stay active here all winter long. or clevelandmetroparks.com 20 – 30 minutes. 12:30, 2:00 and 3:30 p.m. 1:00, 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. Terrain: paved trail, 1 mile Programs for Young Children FEBRUARY PROGRAMS BY DATE Birds and Coffee Balto: Hero of Brookside Investigating Tracks 1 – 29 • FEBRUARY Drop in anytime during the posted Learn the story behind this Become a detective while enjoying Hunt of the Month: Boots hours to brush up on your bird sled dog’s Alaskan journey and the outdoors. We’ll look for clues in This month join us as we hunt for I.D. skills and enjoy a hot cup of connection to our Cleveland the snow telling us which animals are missing boots. We have hidden 20 coffee as we watch for cardinals, community. Balto’s heroic out and what they are doing. If there boots around the center for you woodpeckers, chickadees and expeditions will captivate is no snow, we will hike anyway. to find. After finding them, lace up more through our one-way glass children and adults alike, as his 2 – 3 p.m. CWC your boots and take a hike of your windows. tale is told along the trail. Age: 6 – 12 years with adult own! 10 a.m. – noon NCNC 1 – 2:30 p.m. BR Terrain: paved, natural surface, 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Mon. – Sun. Nature Education Building Meadow Ridge Picnic Area muddy, 1 mile CWC Terrain: paved, natural surfaces, Groundhog Day Discovery hills, ice possible, 2 miles Frozen Waterfalls Hike Learn about groundhogs 440-887-1968 Join Naturalist Pam Taylor as we 1 – 27 • FEBRUARY on this “shadowy” occasion.