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July 2019
Ferns of Warsaw Caves Conservation Area
Sunday, July 21, 2019 meet at Riverview Park and Zoo at 10:00 a.m. or at the park gate house parking lot, 289 Caves Road, Warsaw at 10:30 a.m. Ferns have been around for over 300 million years despite producing neither flowers nor seeds. Generally fond of moist forest floors, Warsaw Caves has a lot of varieties for us to find in the cool shade. A digital copy of a fern ID information package with a worksheet and ID chart is…
Find out more »August 2019
Get a Rush out of Grass and Sedges
Sunday, August 11, 2019 1:00 p.m. Meet at the main door of the Life Sciences Bldg., Trent University These graminoids are spectacular when you look at them closeup. Come spend a few hours with a couple of plants geeks learning to ID some common grasses and sedges. We will start our day with an hour of interactive Powerpoint presentation and scope work followed by a few hours of field identification activities. Background information and an ID chart can be downloaded…
Find out more »Encounter with Bats and other Nocturnal Occupants of Jackson Park
Thursday, August 15, 2019 8:45 p.m. Lower parking lot of Jackson Park off Fairbairn at Parkhill Rd. Join Paul Elliott for a night walk using ultrasonic detectors to pick up the high-frequency sounds made by foraging bats. We will meet at the Jackson Park parking lot on Fairbairn/Parkhill. Participants need to wear sensible footwear and may bring flashlights if they wish. Accessibility will be good, other than the fact that we will be walking in the dark! Accessibility: Easy
Find out more »Shorebirds and Monarchs
Saturday, August 24th, Shorebirds and Monarchs, Presqu’ile Provincial Park 7:00 a.m. Sobey’s parking lot adjacent to Tim Horton’s in Sobey’s Plaza, Lansdowne Street West Martin Parker and Matthew Tobey will lead this annual outing to Presqu’ile Provincial Park to view the gathering of shorebirds as they are making their migration from their Arctic breeding grounds to their wintering areas, primarily in the southern hemisphere. In the fall, the birds linger longer than in the spring. We will be visiting…
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