Dear Fellow Concerned Citizens: “Help one another; there’s no time like the present and no present like the time.” – James Durst, songwriter The Richmond Hill Naturalists need your help. We have been called to appear before the Ontario Municipal Board April 30, 2015 to face a potential decision to award costs to our opponent […]
Author: lezned
February Bird Group Meeting
Bird Group February meeting. The group got together at Dana Jonak’s home on Wednesday, the 11th, to discuss a couple of ‘Little Brown Jobs’, the Grasshopper Sparrow and Henslow’s Sparrow, both members of the Ammodramus family. These are both birds which are difficult to spot in the wild, except in mating season when they may […]
November Bird Group meeting
The group met at Barbara Jackson’s home to discuss these two birds (and other recent happenings in our bird-watching lives). In the USA/Canada, the Rough-winged Swallow is seen fairly regularly(including around the GTA), while the Cave Swallow is only found in Southern Texas/New Mexico. It is quite similar to the Cliff Swallow which does nest […]
Christmas Bird Count results
We had a record number of feeder watchers (14+), plus 2 ‘super-watchers’ with elaborate feeder setups and detailed observing (Michael Biro in area 3 and Miranda O’Hara in area 2), mostly thanks to the Liberal article ahead of the count. I haven’t totalled up all the participants on the eight sector routes, but it may […]
Take Part in 115th Annual Christmas Bird Count
The annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC) – the longest-running Citizen Science survey in the world – will take place from December 14, 2014 to January 5, 2015. Tens of thousands of volunteers throughout North America will brave winter weather to add a new layer to over a century of data. The local Richmond Hill count […]