February 25, 2012
Learn some outdoor survival skills and build a temporary shelter in the forest! Learn about winter ecology and how animals and plants survive the winter months.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
January 28, 2012
What a beautiful snowy, winter day we had for our meeting today. We haven't had much snow this winter, so it was nice to finally see some of the white fluffy flakes!Today we made some fire starters. We each made one for the LCNC and one to take home. We'll get to use one of these next month when we learn about winter survival!
After reviewing how to identify winter tracks, we headed outside to see if we could identify any animal tracks in the snow. We saw dog tracks, squirrel tracks and bird tracks.
On our hike we saw a muskrat feeding at the creek! Not the best photo, but you can see a furry animal! After our hike we stopped at the feeders to feed the chickadees.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Next program - January 28th.
Greetings everyone!!
Our next program is coming up on January 28th. Let's hope for some snow!
Chase away those mid-winter blues and don a pair of snowshoes for a trek through the trails of Laurel Creek! If weather does not permit, we will do a winter hike instead.
See you there!
Kelly
Our next program is coming up on January 28th. Let's hope for some snow!
Chase away those mid-winter blues and don a pair of snowshoes for a trek through the trails of Laurel Creek! If weather does not permit, we will do a winter hike instead.
See you there!
Kelly
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Next program - November 19th
Skulls and Skeletons!
Learn the basics of bone structure in animals and how to tell a rabbit from a wolf. Play a fun game or two to reinforce what you’ve learned. Also for this session, bring in your own ‘mystery’ object (it doesn’t have to be a skull!) and let us all help identify it!!
It sounds like it will be an interesting and informative session. I'm sorry that I'll be missing it!
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Greening the Nature Centre with Native Plants
Today we had another beautiful sunny day for our meeting. The first thing we did was head to the pond for our monthly photo. The pond photo can be seen here.
Next everyone pitched in and planted some native plants around the nature centre:
Next everyone pitched in and planted some native plants around the nature centre:
After planting, everyone had a chance to update their journals and we talked about sightings people had during the past month.
Sightings:
raccoon, Harbour Seal, Jellyfish, black bear (Vancouver)
Sturgeon
Deer
Cooper's Hawk
Skunk
Bunny, Bluebirds
Groundhog
Monarch Butterfly
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Robins
Praying Mantis
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Reminder - Program October 29th
Come and help ‘green’ the nature centre with some native plantings. Bring gloves (we will provide shovels). Learn about different seeds and spores and how plants disperse them far and wide!
We have a special opportunity that is in addition to our regular November
meeting:
On November 5, our Young Nats club will be joining the Guelph Field
Naturalists at the Guelph Lake Nature Centre as part of a joint program by
WILD Ontario to see some real live birds of prey! The program would run from
10-12. Carpooling will be arranged closer to the date if there is interest.
This is outside of our regular program offerings and there would be an extra
$10 cost for those interested families to cover our participation.
meeting:
On November 5, our Young Nats club will be joining the Guelph Field
Naturalists at the Guelph Lake Nature Centre as part of a joint program by
WILD Ontario to see some real live birds of prey! The program would run from
10-12. Carpooling will be arranged closer to the date if there is interest.
This is outside of our regular program offerings and there would be an extra
$10 cost for those interested families to cover our participation.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Pond study and water quality - Sept 24
What a great turnout we had on Saturday. The weather was beautiful and perfect for gathering creatures from the pond!
It was nice to meet all the new members that have joined the Young Naturalists club this year and welcome back some returning members.
During the first part of our meeting we shared the following sightings: Piping Plover, Pileated Woodpecker, coyote, deer, snake, seal and gopher.
We're going to try something new this year. Each time we meet, we'll take a photo of the same spot at the pond so that we can see how that spot changes from season to season. Each young naturalist will also have a journal where they can write down the things they did and saw during each meeting!
It was nice to meet all the new members that have joined the Young Naturalists club this year and welcome back some returning members.
During the first part of our meeting we shared the following sightings: Piping Plover, Pileated Woodpecker, coyote, deer, snake, seal and gopher.
We're going to try something new this year. Each time we meet, we'll take a photo of the same spot at the pond so that we can see how that spot changes from season to season. Each young naturalist will also have a journal where they can write down the things they did and saw during each meeting!
While we were at the pond, we collected water to measure the water quality. The results were:
Air temperature: 20 degrees, Turbidity: 40 jtu, Water temperature: 18 degrees, Dissolved Oxygen: 4, pH: 7. Because of some problems with the sampling, the results were not submitted to the water monitoring website. If you would like to read more about water sampling, here is a link to the website: http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org/
It looked like everyone had fun collecting creatures at the pond:
List of creatures collected:
crayfish
leopard frog
water scorpion
giant water bug
tadpole
scud
dragon fly nymph
damsel fly nymph
scavenger beetle
water boatman
water mite
fisher spider
backswimmer
water strider
stickleback
caddis fly nymph
See you in October!
Kelly
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