Outings

Check here often for upcoming outings.

Saturday Adventure Walk
Hawk Cliff


Saturday Nov 16 or
Sunday Nov 17
It depends on the winds.

A few points to note.
We are planning an outing to Hawk Cliff.
This is a renowned raptor watch location situated just east of Port Stanley on the shore of Lake Erie, where every fall thousands of raptors pass through in migration. (Raptors won’t cross large bodies of water, since water doesn’t produce the energy saving thermals they use. Instead they gather at the lake shore before skirting around the lake.)
The best conditions are when a strong North or North-west wind is blowing, and we will only know that a couple days ahead of time. Therefore we are penciling in these dates, hoping that the weather Gods will grant us at least one good day.
We should have more details available after our meeting on Tuesday.

Watch your mailbox for more details.

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  • Saturday Adventure Walks
  • Summer weekly Monday Night Walks.

Upcoming outdoor walks  include
 – Birdbox Monitoring
 – Owl Prowl
 – Animal Tracking in the snow
 – Dragonfly Watch
 – Moth Watch
 – Butterfly Count
 – Salamander Walk

Outdoor Event Questions?

Contact Don Scallen at dscallen@cogeco.ca

Note: For liability reasons, you must be a fully paid member of the Halton North Peel Naturalist Club, and you must have our registration form completed,  to participate in our field outings. Please join!

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Don’t miss out on the fun!

We have one or more outings every month throughout the year, guided by the most experienced naturalists in our club. The outings will be fairly casual affairs, meaning… you won’t have a lot of advance notice. We’ll announce the details at each meeting, often along the lines of “hey I’m going out to do/see this next weekend, anyone want to come?”

We’ll follow-up with a club email, and post the details here, on Facebook, and on Twitter.

If you can’t make a club meeting, make sure you  sign up for our newsletter to stay in the loop.

 

Past Field Trips

  • Oct 12 – Fall Bird Migrants
  • Sep 14 – Snakes at Fletcher Creek Ecological Preserve
  • Jul 13 – Dragonfly Count at Wilfred Crozier Nature Reserve
  • Jul 13 – Credit Valley Conservation Butterfly Count
  • Jul 13 – Pond Dipping with Don Scallen and Sustainable Milton
  • Jul 12 – Mothing and Caterpillaging in Speyside
  • Jul 6 – Hamilton Odonate Count
  • Jul 4 – Mississauga Butterfly Count
  • Jun 11 – Scotsdale Birdbox Monitoring
  • Jun 2 – Butterflyway Planting
  • May 18 – Birding at Biggar Lagoon
  • Apr 11 – Salamander Outing
  • Feb 17 – Snowy Owls and Other Winter Birds
  • Jan 21 – Terra Cotta Tracking Adventure Walk

  • 2024

  • Dec 27 – Christmas Bird Count
  • Nov 19 – Hawk Cliff Outing
  • Nov 11 – Late-Flowering Plants Survey
  • Nov 1 – Buckthorn Removal at Wilfred Crozier Nature Reserve
  • Sep 23 – McNab Park butterflyway weeding and mulching
  • Aug 21 – Nighthawks, Swifts & Swallows at Rattray Marsh
  • Aug 19 – Moth and Caterpillar Study in Speyside
  • Aug 14 – Swifts at the old Oakville trafalgar High School
  • Aug 2 – Garden Tour of SNAP Resident Don Scallen
  • Jul 15 – Butterfly Blitz (CVC)
  • Jun 17 – Bat Night
  • Jun 14 – Scotsdale BirdBox Monitoring
  • Jun 5 – Shanahan Conservation Area Evening Walk
  • May 29 – Acton Chimney Swift Monitoring
  • May 23 – Butterflyway Planting
  • May 21 – Snake Walk
  • May 14 – Migrating Songbirds
  • Apr 15 – Birds: Late Ducks and Early Arrivals
  • Apr 11 – Salamander Outing (Don Scallen)
  • Apr 10 – Salamander Outing (Fiona Reid)
  • Mar 18 – Early Migrant Birds
  • Feb 18 – Snowy Owls and Other Winter Birds
  • Jan 21 – Terra Cotta conservation area Animal Tracking

  • 2023

  • Dec 27 – Christmas Bird Count
  • Dec 17 – Owl Prowl
  • Nov 19 – Hawk Cliff Outing
  • Nov 14 – Van Wagner’s Beach in Hamilton Pelagic Seabirds
  • Nov 12 – Late-Flowering Plants Survey
  • Oct 15 – Seedy Saturday Native Plant seed exchange and sharing
  • Oct 10 – Forks of the Credit PP BirdBox Monitoring
  • Oct 8 – Migratory Bird Day at Willow Park in Norval
  • Sep 11 – Birding trip to Guelph correctional ponds
  • Aug 24 – Evening Birding at Rattray Marsh
  • Jul 18 – Mississauga Port Credit Evening Walk
  • Jun 14 – Scotsdale Farm birdbox monitoring
  • Jun 10 – Forks of the Credit BirdBox Monitoring
  • Jun 7 – Visit BirdBoxes at Scotsdale Farm
  • Jun 4 – Planting native plants at Joseph Gibbons Park
  • May 23 – Acton Swift Watch
  • May 20 – Snakes
  • May 15 – Spring Birding and Warbler Watching
  • May 14 – Brampton Festival of Birds – “Big Sit”
  • May 13 – Migrating Songbirds
  • May 12 – Wildflowers and Wildlife in Speyside
  • Apr 15 – Winter Ducks on Lake Ontario
  • Apr 11 – Salamander Walk
  • Apr 2 – Weekend Birding Hike
  • Mar 18 – Early Migrant Birds
  • Mar – Salamander watch.
  • Jan 23 – Animal tracks in the snow
  • Jan 12 – Winter Birds of the North

  • 2022

  • Dec 27 – Christmas Bird Count
  • Nov 14 – Waterbirds at La Salle Park, Burlington
  • Nov 13 – Late Flowering Plant Survey
  • Nov 13 – Mulch Mania at Halton Hills Naturalized gardens
  • Oct 2 – Scotch Block Reservoir and St Helena Road Fall Foliage
  • Jul 5 – Wilfred G Crozier Nature Reserve
  • Jun 21 – Morden Neilson Park Georgetown
  • Mar 21 – Winter Tree Identification and Nature Walk
  • Mar 14 – Tundra Swans at Long Point
  • Feb 16 – Snowy Owls

  • 2021

  • Aug 17 – The Emergence of Mayflies

  • 2020
     
  • Dec 27 – Christmas Bird Count
  • Nov 17 – Late Flowering Plants Survey
  • Nov 2 – Woody vegetation removal FCPP
  • Oct 1 – Nest Box Cleaning at Forks of the Credit
    Provincial Park
  • Sep 29 – Nest Box Cleaning at Scotsdale Farm
  • Sep 27 – Duck Identification and Bird Walk at Scotch Block.
  • Sep 14 – Mothing and Caterpillars
  • Aug 8 – Oakvile High School Chimney Swift Watch
  • Jun 11 – Birdbox Monitoring at Scotsdale Farm
  • May 25 – A Pollinator and Biodiversity Workshop
  • May 19 – Spring Birding at Thickson Wood, Lynde Shores Conservation Area and Cranberry Marsh
  • May 4 – Community Nature Walk and Clean Up
  • Apr 22 – Timberdoodles Scotsdale Farm
  • Apr 13 – Beamer Conservation AreaHawkwatch, Grimsby
  • Mar 16 – Tundra Swans at Long Point
  • Mar 3 – Animal Tracking at Terra Cotta Conservation
  • Feb 23 – Animal Tracking at Terra Cotta Conservation
  • Jan 13 – Winter Trees and Birds in the Hand
  • Jan 6 – Snowy Owls, Snow Buntings and Other Winter Songbirds

  • 2019

  • Dec 27 – Christmas Bird Count
  • Nov 11 – Survey of late blooming plants.
  • Oct 28 – Bird Box Cleaning at Scotsdale Farm
  • Oct 21 – Norway Maple removal at Silver Creek
    Conservation Area
  • Oct 14 – Bird Box Cleaning at Forks of the Credit
    Provincial Park
  • Sep 30 – Bird Box Cleaning at Scotsdale Farm
  • Sep 15 – Group Litter Pick Up in Georgetown
  • Sep 8 -Mothing at Fiona Reid’s Niagara Escarpment property
  • Jul 21 – Dragonflies with David D’Entremont
  • Jul 21 – Mothapaooza in Speyside
  • Jun 23/24 – Outing to Carden Alvar
  • Jun 16 – Moths, caterpillars, frogs and other creatures of the night
  • May 20 – Spring Birding at Thickson Wood, Lynde Shores Conservation Area and Cranberry Marsh
  • May 12 – World Migratory Bird Day
  • May 5 – Woodland wildflowers and early-arriving birds
  • Apr22 – Bird Box Installation at Forks of the Credit Provincial Park
  • Apr 21 – Beamer Conservation Area Hawkwatch
  • Apr 20 – Woodcocks at Forks of the Credit Provincial Park
  • Apr 13 – Salamanders at Silver Creek Education Centre
  • Mar 17 – Tundra Swans at Long Point
  • Feb 17 – Owls at Claireville Conservation Area
  • Jan 28 – Winter Bird Outing for Snowy Owls

  • 2018

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