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
The Club’s Board has been discussing the need to broaden our horizons and look for some new (or lapsed) members to come to our meetings and outings. With technology changing faster than some of us like, it is time to face it and use it to our advantage. We need to reach beyond the website
Fifty years ago a group of individuals with a shared love of nature gathered to found the Saugeen Nature Club to encourage and promote an appreciation and understanding of all aspects of the natural world in people of the Saugeen River area.This year, we decided to offer intermediate students living in the Saugeen watershed competing
We are very pleased to announce that we had what we consider a full registration for the Saugeen Junior Naturalist program this year. Thirty-seven young people aged 7 to 12 gathered one Saturday a month to learn about the wonders of nature in various local natural areas.This fall we were at Sulphur Spring Conservation Area
As the club celebrates 50 years it should also be noted that this December will also mark the 50th annual Hanover-Walkerton Christmas Bird Count. In the fifty years that the event has been operating it has helped to contribute and shape one of the largest citizen science projects in the world. The data collected helps
