Monthly Meeting: Best Places to Bird in Ontario
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaMike Burrell, co-author of Best Places to Bird in Ontario, will be the speaker. This guide, released last spring, outlines the top 30 birding destinations in Ontario, with up-to-date information on hard to find species, directions, birding tips and much more. Mike Burrell is a birder par excellence, he thinks he has been interested in…
Ballyduff Trails Nature Walk
Crawford Drive Carpool Lot Crawford Dr. @ Harper Rd. Park & Ride, Peterborough, ON, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaBallyduff Trails Nature Walk, Sunday September 15th, 1-4:30 p.m. Don McLeod will lead a nature walk along the Ballyduff Trails near Bethany. We will be looking for birds plus wildlife tracks and sign. These trails and the scenery are beautiful! This year we will take the trails one way rather than doubling back and will…
Migrating Birds of The Rice Lake area
Country Style at Old Keene Rd 779 Hwy 7, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaMigrating Birds of The Rice Lake area Sunday, September 22nd 8:00 a.m. Dave Milsom and Matthew Tobey will lead you to birding hot spots around Rice Lake. Migration will be well underway, with the potential to find good numbers of birds. Meet at the Country Style at Hwy 7 and Old Keene Road east of…
Walking the Millbrook Valley Trails
Cavan Carpark at the #115 919 Syer Line #791, Cavan, Ontario, CanadaWalking the Millbrook Valley Trails Sunday, September 29, 2019 8:00 – 11:00 a.m. Led by Lynn Smith, this outing will include a few car stops and a hike along part of the Millbrook Valley Trail system. There will be an opportunity to practice your skills using iNaturalist so for those interested, please bring cell phones…
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…