Niagara Gulls Trip Cancellation: World’s Greatest Concentration of Gulls: Sunday, December 1
Tim Hortons Lansdowne St. West 1200 Lansdowne St W, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaNiagara Gulls Trip Cancellation World’s Greatest Concentration of Gulls: Sunday, December 1 – 7:00 a.m. The Sunday, December 1st outing ‘World’s Greatest Concentration of Gulls” has been cancelled due to the warning of a major winter storm with snow and freezing rain. The driving conditions could be hazardous from a participant’s safety perspective it has…
Monthly Meeting: Members’ Slide Show Night
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaThe members’ slide show, held at our December monthly meeting, is a highly anticipated annual PFN tradition. Show fellow PFN members your photos of a recent trip. Display those exciting…
68th Peterborough Christmas Bird Count – A Christmas Tradition
Sunday, December 15 – all day The Peterborough Christmas Bird Count (CBC), now in its 68th year, is the longest running wildlife survey in Peterborough County. The Peterborough CBC participants cover an area contained within a circle with a diameter of 24 kilometers, centered on the intersection of Chemong Road and Sunset Boulevard. This total…
First Day Walk at Silent Lake Provincial Park
First Day Walk at Silent Lake Provincial Park January 1, 2020 11:00a.m. Ontario Parks encourages people to get out on New Year's Day and enjoy the magic of winter and we will be visiting Silent Lake. After meeting at 11:00 a.m. at the Riverview Park and Zoo to arrange carpooling, we will head north arriving…
34th Annual Petroglyphs Christmas Bird Count
This is the second Christmas Bird Count conducted in the Peterborough Region by members and friends of the PFN. This count samples the bird life in an area which stretches from the north shore of Stoney Lake northward to the Aspley – Jack lake area. The compiler for this count is Colin Jones and new…
PFN Juniors: let’s do nature art (wood pendants)
Art Gallery of Peterborough 250 Crescent Street, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaThe Peterborough Junior Naturalists are teaming up with the Art Gallery of Peterborough for a nature art event. The Art Gallery of Peterborough has "Family Sundays", where families can come for free to visit the gallery and make some art. For this Family Sunday, we'll be decorating wood pendants with pressed flowers and leaves. Make…
Wintering Water Birds and Ice Formations
Wintering Water Birds and Ice Formations Sunday, January 19, 2020 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. This outing will visit various locations along the waterfront of Port Hope and Cobourg eastward to Chubb Point in search of the birds which normally winter on the open waters of Lake Ontario. Species of note should be Common Goldeneye,…
Join us for PFN’s 79th Annual General Meeting
Peterorough Curling Club 2195 Lansdowne Street, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaPURCHASE TICKETS HERE* *Online ticket purchases include a $2.50 Surcharge. Keep up-to-date on PFN business, elect the next executive, enter the raffle for prizes, enjoy a delicious meal and stay for an entertaining presentation! The speaker will be Noel Alfonso, Ichthyologist in the Research Services Division of the Canadian Museum of Nature. The title of…
Snowshoe the Trail at Kawartha Nordic with Drew Monkman and Don McLeod
February 2, 2020 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 Meet at the Riverdale Park and Zoo at 9:00 a.m. or 10:00 a.m. at the Welcome Trailer at Kawartha Nordic Ski Club Peterborough Field Naturalist members have been invited to enjoy a snowshoe walk with Kawartha Nordic Ski Club members on their snowshoe trails. Our leaders, Drew Monkman,…
Monthly Meeting: Wild Pigs in Ontario
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaSpeaker: Erin Koen, Research Scientist for the Landscape Team at the Wildlife Research and Monitoring Section of the MNRF. Wild Pigs are in Ontario. They can be destructive to wild…