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By Kim Saunders Saugeen Jr. Naturalist’s from Hanover would like to welcome back Nancy Reaume as the assistant leader. Nancy was with the group for many years, awhile ago, and has come back as there is a need for 2 leaders now. Our group is 15 strong, with 6 absences for our last outing. We snowshoed and […]

By Gerard McNaughton The 42 annual Hanover-Walkerton Christmas Bird Count took place on Dec. 16, 2017 with participants searching woodlots, open fields and feeders in search of their feathered friends. Warmer then seasonal temperatures only a few weeks before were replaced by cold weather and snow that would make some roads impassable. Undaunted the 28

If you have any items for the Silent Auction, please let Gertie Blake know at 519-369-2937 Any items that are donated to the AGM’s Silent Auction, and are not bid on, please remember to take the item home after the meeting. Saugeen Nature thanks you for your continued support of the club.

April 16, 2018 – 6:30 p.m.Where: St.James’AnglicanChurchat the corner of 7th Avenue and 8th Street, Hanover. What: Social time with dessert, cheese and fruit/veggie trays Coffee, Tea, PunchThe Annual General MeetingSilent AuctionGuest Speaker: Bob Gray, Bruce Peninsula Bird Observatory. Cost: Voluntary Contribution

Clarke Birchard Many of the following features can be found in smaller, younger deciduous woodlots. In an old growth forest they will be in greater abundance and more widespread. TALL OLD TREES The old growth eastern deciduous forest is not like the temperate rain forests of the west coast or the tropical and sub-tropical forest

What a difference a year makes! In April of 2017 our trip up the Grey-Bruce line to the Grimston Flats, north of Scone, revealed many returning birds, including a rare Eurasian ruff, in the extensive floods along the Sauble River. This year, in the week before the outing, a massive winter storm dumped ice and

Eleven Saugeen Nature club members gathered on the morning of March 10th 2018, to make the annual attempt to find winter raptor species in the Grey and Bruce area before they head north to their summer breeding grounds. Beginning north of Chesley, the group covered a network of roads as far north as Dobbinton and including

Kinghurst Nature Reserve is one of those special places in Grey County that is worth visiting again and again. It is especially glorious in the spring when the early flowers come out in bloom before the trees fully leaf out. Once again, Saugeen Nature held our spring wildflower walk in mid-May. Fourteen club members and

Submitted by Nikki May Damsels and dragons, and Shamrock Orbweavers. The stuff of legends, not to be found in Grey and Bruce Counties, you will say. But yes, they are found here, and without too much difficulty. Members of Saugeen Nature observed all three on a recent trip to Noisy River Provincial Park. And all

By Nikki May Did you know that there are at least a dozen different goldenrod species in this area? Many of them look the same from a few feet away, and some look very similar within a few inches. So it is not surprising that most people think that there is just one ‘Goldenrod’. Members