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Trip Leader: Dave Schaus Participants: Jean Schaus, Gerard McNaughton, Lynn Stoltzfus Locations visited: Greenway Rd and River Road south of Grand Bend, The Pinery Provincial Park, Grand Bend Sewage Lagoons Weather: Cloudy, windy, 0 degrees Highlights: 200+ swans, Glaucous Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Tufted Titmouse Species seen: • Canada Goose • Mallard • […]

Click here to read more about Janet Grand and Ron Reid’s big birding year and plans to fund raise for the Wolf Run Alvar

Longtime member Clarke Birchard was the recipient of the SFN Conservation Award for 2010. Clarke was presented with a beautiful Scarlet Tanager image created by John Reaume in recognition of his many years of dedicated conservation efforts.

By Joan and Jerry Asling On March 27 we began our first bluebird box check of the 2010 season. Farmers were working their fields, and all the ditches were dry, which we often don’t get until late summer, and the temperature was 28C. Jerry cleaned out lots of mouse nests with his trusty tool –

By John Reaume We had a beautiful day at Kinghurst Forest Reserve for “odeing” (which means hunting for the odonates -ie- dragonflies and damselflies. We had a dozen people turn up for the event and were fortunate to find 13 species in the few hours of trying. They include: Spotted Spreadwing Elegant Spreadwing Marsh Bluet

Since Kinghurst became a nature reserve and SFN became the stewards Ontario Nature and the SFN have faced a dilemma regarding what to about the cabin on the Harrison tract. Should it be demolished and removed, repaired and restored or just allowed to disintegrate on its own? Various groups doing inventories, research or stewardship projects

By Clarke Birchard (click here to go to gallery photos of event) On the morning of September 26 a dozen SFN members set out in a light drizzle to explore the section of the Bruce Trail that passes through the upper portion of the proposed Malcolm Bluff Shores Nature Reserve north of Wiarton in the

Dates – May 28 – 31 & June 3 – 6, 2010 see http://www.friendsofmacgregor.org/ for more information.

Recently placed on the endangered species list Butternut trees are in great danger of becoming extinct.  Unlike most other endangered species the butternut is not suffering due to a loss of habitat or human interference, but rather because of a deadly fungal disease called Butternut Canker.  Although genetic immunity or resistance to the disease has

Plan to join us for the 2010 Old-Tyme Maple Syrup Festival at Saugeen Bluffs Conservation Area, just north of the Village of Paisley: March 27 and 28, 2010 Saturday and Sunday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Adults $6.00 Children $2.00 Preschoolers Free This old-fashioned event features plenty of pancakes and real maple syrup in addition