PFN Juniors: BioBlitz at Kawartha Heights Park (SW Ptbo)
Kawartha Heights Park 2229 Kawartha Heights Blvd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaLet’s identify all kinds of plants and animals – it’s active exploration and learning. We’ll wander through the park and learn how to use field guides and iNaturalist to identify and document the species we find. Plants will be our main focus since they stay still while you take pictures, but we’ll also dabble with insects…
Do You Like Rocks and Geology?
Peterborough Zoo 1230 Water St, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaDo You Like Rocks and Geology? Saturday, October 5th 1:00 p.m. Ken Lyon, P.Geo., and Alan Brunger, Professor Emeritus Trent U, are leading a half-day, old-fashioned road trip north of the City of Peterborough. We will explore geology features going back a billion years and more in The Land Between, one of the most priceless…
It’s Mushroom Season!
Trent University 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaIt's Mushroom Season! Sunday, October 6th 1:00 p.m. Meet at the main door Block C/D of the Life Sciences Bldg., Trent University. Please join amateur mycologists Susan Chow and Radek Odolczyk for an intro to fungal taxonomy and macroscopy in the lab followed by a field visit to Mark S. Burnham Woods to investigate fungi…
Monthly Meeting: Geological Features of The Land Between in Peterborough County
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaThe area north of the City of Peterborough contains a fascinating array of natural geological heritage features that span a billion years. Ken Lyon, hydrogeologist and PFN member, will introduce rocks of the core of ancient Canadian Shield mountains, plate tectonics and limestones and fossils of the shallow warm Ordovician seas, and Pleistocene drumlins and…
Migrating Birds of the Pigeon Lake area
Peterborough Zoo 1230 Water St, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaMigrating Birds of the Pigeon Lake area Sunday, October 13, 2019 8:00 a.m. Dave Milsom and Matthew Tobey continue the PFN Sunday Morning Birding tradition, this time to the Pigeon Lake area looking for migrants including waterfowl. Meet at the Riverview Park and Zoo, Water Street North at 8:00 a.m. where carpooling will be arranged.…
Hawks Over Cranberry Marsh
Tim Hortons Lansdowne St. West 1200 Lansdowne St W, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaHawks Over Cranberry Marsh Saturday, October 19th, 9-4:00 p.m. Each fall as the hawks and other raptors are heading southwards, they are blocked by the water of Lake Ontario. They will migrate westerly along the north shore of the lake looking for a way around it. On this outing, we will travel to the Cranberry…
Pollinator garden with Otonabee Conservation
Junior Naturalist families are invited to plant a pollinator garden at Otonabee Region Conservation Authority's office (250 Milroy Dr. Peterborough). ORCA staff will teach us about local pollinators, their behaviours and why it is important to help them out. Everyone is welcome, so bring a friend! Saturday Oct. 19th 9:30 am- 11:00 am
Water Birds and other Late Migrants of the Pigeon Lake area: Sunday, October 27
Peterborough Zoo 1230 Water St, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaWater Birds and other Late Migrants of the Pigeon Lake area, Sunday, October 27, 8:00-11:00 a.m. Jerry Ball will lead us to the east shore of Pigeon Lake looking for migrating waterfowl, Bonaparte’s Gulls and Northern Shrike. Meet at the Riverview Park and Zoo, Water Street North at 8:00 a.m.where carpooling will be arranged. Dress…
Fall Shorebirds and Waterfowl at Presqu’ile Provincial Park: Sunday, November 3
Country Style at Old Keene Rd 779 Hwy 7, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaFall Shorebirds and Water Birds at Presqu’ile Provincial Park Sunday, November 3, 8 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Jerry Ball will lead a day-long trip to view migrant birds at Presqu’ile Provincial Park, with other stops of interest on the way. Expect to see many interesting waterfowl. Bring a packed lunch, binoculars and, if you have…
The Anthtopocene’s animal? Coywolves as feral cotravelers
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaGuest speaker: Stephanie Rutherford is an Associate Professor in the Trent School of the Environment, and also teaches and advises in the MA and PhD programs in Sustainability Studies, Cultural Studies, and Canadian and Indigenous Studies. She is the co-author of Historical Animal Geographies, published in 2018. In Canadian cities and towns their presence is…