By Nikki MayOn Saturday, November 8, 2025 Fire Chief Jeff Dentinger led 15 members of Saugeen Nature on a tour around the new Hanover Fire Station. Jeff gave us very detailed explanations of the features of the building, and patiently answered our questions for over 2 hours. We visited everything from the command centre to […]
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By Nikki MayIt was a glorious sunny Saturday in mid-October. After several days of rain, members of Saugeen Nature ventured out to explore the northern parts of Georgian Bluffs and learn some of the geological history that formed Georgian Bay and the Bruce Peninsula. The group met our leader for the day; Bob Gray, in
By John ReaumeOn August 2, 2025 this was our clubs 16th annual outing to look for dragonflies and damselflies. This year we returned to the Kinghurst Nature Reserve. There were seven of us in total armed with our nets, binoculars and magnifier loupes to get close and personal with these incredible predators.We had a perfect
By Nancy GriffinThe Junior Naturalist Program run by Saugeen Nature volunteers is off to another great start with 18 participants registered for the 2025/26 season.Youth aged 7 to 12 years participate in activities designed to enhance their knowledge of our local natural world while having fun with other kids investigating, hiking, snowshoeing, birding, playing games
By Nikki MayEarly on the morning of July 12th, a few keen birders from Saugeen Nature met to do the last ‘square bash’ of the third Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas. Members of SN have been going out twice a year for the last 4 years to assist in the gathering of breeding data for Atlas
June 7, 2025 – Berkeley Square On June 5th and 7th, Angus Inksetter, John Reaume and Nikki May surveyed the Breeding Bird Atlas square around Berkeley for bird species. They discovered 44 species on Thursday and over 50 on the Saturday morning, adding 3 additional species to the existing Atlas 3 records for square. There
By Nikki MayOn a cool May morning, members and guests of Saugeen Nature met to explore the trail along the esker on the Inksetter property. This wooded wetland property is adjacent to Grey County’s Fish Hatchery Forest, so is part of a large forested wetland complex rich in a wide variety of plants and animals.
By Nikki MayOn a cool, breezy spring day, several members of Saugeen Nature met at Scone to start a tour of the wetlands of Bruce County that lie along the County Road 10. Several migrating birds were seen on the pond in Scone, including Common Merganser, Bufflehead – both diving ducks, and Barn Swallows, insectivores
By Nikki MayThis year, the Saugeen Nature club is celebrating fifty years of exploring, sharing and protecting nature in and around the Saugeen Watershed in Grey and Bruce counties. Every year since 1975, with the exception of the COVID years 2020 and 2021, members of Saugeen Nature have gathered together several times a month, to
Once again, Gerard McNaughton organized a group of keen birders into an efficient machine for covering the circle that Saugeen Nature monitors every year. The teams started out early on Saturday morning, driving up and down the roads in their assigned sections. The weather was cool, but clear and the roads were snow-covered but well
