{"id":18,"date":"2008-08-26T05:30:36","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T05:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2026-08-31T21:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:03:29","slug":"outings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/outings","title":{"rendered":"Outings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Check here often for upcoming outings.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<h1>Our club is 60 years old this year.<\/h1>\r\n<p><br \/><strong>This appeared in the Georgetown Herald in 1966<br \/><\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/clipping_naturalistclub.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-113321\" src=\"http:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/clipping_naturalistclub400.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/clipping_naturalistclub400.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/clipping_naturalistclub400-300x239.jpeg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<h4><strong>Monday, September 7, 2026<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<p><strong>2:00 p.m.<\/strong><br \/><strong>Pollinator Gardens and Willow Park (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/mybkqBuuZXR6UyfZ7\">map<\/a>)<\/strong><br \/><strong>Leaders: Fiona Reid &amp; Katherine Shaw<\/strong> <br \/><br \/>This year starts off with an outing, before our indoor meeting.<br \/>We will meet in the <strong>parking lot for Willow Park in Norval at 2 p.m.<\/strong> We will look at the raised beds that have been converted into pollinator gardens.<br \/>If you would like to collect seeds, <strong>please bring envelopes<\/strong>.<br \/>We will also walk through <strong>Willow Park<\/strong>, in hopes of seeing migrating <strong>warblers<\/strong> and possibly <strong>ducks or shorebirds<\/strong>.<br \/>From here we will drive to <strong>Joseph Gibbons Park on Delrex<\/strong>.<br \/>The pollinator garden here is thronging with insect life, and numerous species will be seen (<strong>weather permitting<\/strong>).<br \/>You might want to collect seeds of Golden Alexanders, Hairy Beardtongue and numerous other native plants.<br \/>Please contact Fiona to confirm. (<a href=\"mailto:fiona.reid7243@gmail.com\">fiona.reid7243@gmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\r\n<h4>Sunday, October 25<\/h4>\r\n<p><strong>Weeds to Broomsticks<\/strong><br \/><br \/><strong>9:30 a.m. &#8211; 12:00 p.m.<\/strong><br \/><strong>Cedarvale Park<\/strong><br \/>181 Main Street South<br \/>Georgetown<br \/>Join <strong>Credit Valley Conservation<\/strong> to remove <strong>invasive buckthorn<\/strong> from the park and turn them into wooden witches&#8217; broomsticks for Halloween.<br \/>For more details and to register for the event:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/cvc.ca\/event\/weeds-to-broomsticks-cedarvale-park-invasive-plant-removal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CVC Website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<h4>December 2026<\/h4>\r\n<p><br \/><strong>Christmas Bird Count<br \/>All day<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<h4><strong>Saturday, May 15, 2027<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<p><br \/><strong>Time: TBA<br \/>Outing to Gloria Hildebrandt &amp; Mike Davis&#8217; Nature Park<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Saturday Adventure Walks<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Watch your mailbox for more details.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>Contact us for more info. <strong><a href=\"mailto:info@hnpnc.com?subject=Scotsdale%20Birdbox%20Cleaning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">info@hnpnc.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Watch for more adventures and outings to come<\/li>\r\n<li>Saturday Adventure Walks<\/li>\r\n<li>Summer weekly Monday Night Walks.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Upcoming outdoor walks\u00a0 include<br \/><br \/>January, Animal Tracking in the snow<br \/><br \/>\u00a0&#8211; Bird Box Monitoring<br \/>\u00a0&#8211; Dragonfly Watch<br \/>\u00a0&#8211; Moth Watch<br \/>\u00a0&#8211; Butterfly Count<br \/>\u00a0&#8211; Salamander Walk<br \/>\u00a0&#8211; Scotsdale Farm Biodiversity<br \/>\u00a0&#8211; Hawk Watch<br \/>\u00a0&#8211; Owl Prowl<br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n<h4>Outdoor Event Questions?<\/h4>\r\n<p>Contact Don Scallen at <a href=\"mailto:dscallen@cogeco.ca\">dscallen@cogeco.ca<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<p><em>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,\u00a0 to participate in our field outings. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/membership_form_hnpnc.pdf\">Please join<\/a>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">************************************************<\/h2>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Don&#8217;t miss out on the fun!<\/h4>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&#8230; you won&#8217;t have a lot of advance notice. We&#8217;ll announce the details at each meeting, often along the lines of &#8220;hey I&#8217;m going out to do\/see this next weekend, anyone want to come?&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ll follow-up with a club email, and post the details here, on Facebook, and on Twitter.<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you can&#8217;t make a club meeting, make sure you\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/subscribe\">sign up for our newsletter<\/a> to stay in the loop.<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Past Field Trips<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Nov 16 &#8211; Hawk Cliff Outing<\/li>\r\n<li>Oct 12 &#8211; Fall Bird Migrants<\/li>\r\n<li>Sep 14 &#8211; Snakes at Fletcher Creek Ecological Preserve<\/li>\r\n<li>Jul 13 &#8211; Dragonfly Count at Wilfred Crozier Nature Reserve<\/li>\r\n<li>Jul 13 &#8211; Credit Valley Conservation Butterfly Count<\/li>\r\n<li>Jul 13 &#8211; Pond Dipping with Don Scallen and Sustainable Milton<\/li>\r\n<li>Jul 12 &#8211; Mothing and Caterpillaging in Speyside<\/li>\r\n<li>Jul 6 &#8211; Hamilton Odonate Count<\/li>\r\n<li>Jul 4 &#8211; Mississauga Butterfly Count<\/li>\r\n<li>Jun 11 &#8211; Scotsdale Birdbox Monitoring<\/li>\r\n<li>Jun 2 &#8211; Butterflyway Planting<\/li>\r\n<li>May 18 &#8211; Birding at Biggar Lagoon<\/li>\r\n<li>Apr 11 &#8211; Salamander Outing<\/li>\r\n<li>Feb 17 &#8211; Snowy Owls and Other Winter Birds<\/li>\r\n<li>Jan 21 &#8211; Terra Cotta Tracking Adventure Walk<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>2024<br \/><br \/><\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li>Dec 27 &#8211; Christmas Bird Count<\/li>\r\n<li>Nov 19 &#8211; Hawk Cliff Outing<\/li>\r\n<li>Nov 11 &#8211; Late-Flowering Plants Survey<\/li>\r\n<li>Nov 1 &#8211; Buckthorn Removal at Wilfred Crozier Nature Reserve<\/li>\r\n<li>Sep 23 &#8211; McNab Park butterflyway weeding and mulching<\/li>\r\n<li>Aug 21 &#8211; Nighthawks, Swifts &amp; Swallows at Rattray Marsh<\/li>\r\n<li>Aug 19 &#8211; Moth and Caterpillar Study in Speyside<\/li>\r\n<li>Aug 14 &#8211; Swifts at the old Oakville trafalgar High School<\/li>\r\n<li>Aug 2 &#8211; Garden Tour of SNAP Resident Don Scallen<\/li>\r\n<li>Jul 15 &#8211; Butterfly Blitz (CVC)<\/li>\r\n<li>Jun 17 &#8211; Bat Night<\/li>\r\n<li>Jun 14 &#8211; Scotsdale BirdBox Monitoring<\/li>\r\n<li>Jun 5 &#8211; Shanahan Conservation Area Evening Walk<\/li>\r\n<li>May 29 &#8211; Acton Chimney Swift Monitoring<\/li>\r\n<li>May 23 &#8211; Butterflyway Planting<\/li>\r\n<li>May 21 &#8211; Snake Walk<\/li>\r\n<li>May 14 &#8211; Migrating Songbirds<\/li>\r\n<li>Apr 15 &#8211; Birds: Late Ducks and Early Arrivals<\/li>\r\n<li>Apr 11 &#8211; Salamander Outing (Don Scallen)<\/li>\r\n<li>Apr 10 &#8211; Salamander Outing (Fiona Reid)<\/li>\r\n<li>Mar 18 &#8211; Early Migrant Birds<\/li>\r\n<li>Feb 18 &#8211; Snowy Owls and Other Winter Birds<\/li>\r\n<li>Jan 21 &#8211; Terra Cotta conservation area Animal Tracking<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>2023<br \/><br \/><\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li>Dec 27 &#8211; Christmas Bird Count<\/li>\r\n<li>Dec 17 &#8211; Owl Prowl<\/li>\r\n<li>Nov 19 &#8211; Hawk Cliff Outing<\/li>\r\n<li>Nov 14 &#8211; Van Wagner&#8217;s Beach in Hamilton Pelagic Seabirds<\/li>\r\n<li>Nov 12 &#8211; Late-Flowering Plants Survey<\/li>\r\n<li>Oct 15 &#8211; Seedy Saturday Native Plant seed exchange and sharing<\/li>\r\n<li>Oct 10 &#8211; Forks of the Credit PP BirdBox Monitoring<\/li>\r\n<li>Oct 8 &#8211; Migratory Bird Day at Willow Park in Norval<\/li>\r\n<li>Sep 11 &#8211; Birding trip to Guelph correctional ponds<\/li>\r\n<li>Aug 24 &#8211; Evening Birding at Rattray Marsh<\/li>\r\n<li>Jul 18 &#8211; Mississauga Port Credit Evening Walk<\/li>\r\n<li>Jun 14 &#8211; Scotsdale Farm birdbox monitoring<\/li>\r\n<li>Jun 10 &#8211; Forks of the Credit BirdBox Monitoring<\/li>\r\n<li>Jun 7 &#8211; Visit BirdBoxes at Scotsdale Farm<\/li>\r\n<li>Jun 4 &#8211; Planting native plants at Joseph Gibbons Park<\/li>\r\n<li>May 23 &#8211; Acton Swift Watch<\/li>\r\n<li>May 20 &#8211; Snakes<\/li>\r\n<li>May 15 &#8211; Spring Birding and Warbler Watching<\/li>\r\n<li>May 14 &#8211; Brampton Festival of Birds \u2013 \u201cBig Sit\u201d<\/li>\r\n<li>May 13 &#8211; Migrating Songbirds<\/li>\r\n<li>May 12 &#8211; Wildflowers and Wildlife in Speyside<\/li>\r\n<li>Apr 15 &#8211; Winter Ducks on Lake Ontario<\/li>\r\n<li>Apr 11 &#8211; Salamander Walk<\/li>\r\n<li>Apr 2 &#8211; Weekend Birding Hike<\/li>\r\n<li>Mar 18 &#8211; Early Migrant Birds<\/li>\r\n<li>Mar &#8211; Salamander watch.<\/li>\r\n<li>Jan 23 &#8211; Animal tracks in the snow<\/li>\r\n<li>Jan 12 &#8211; Winter Birds of the North<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>2022 <br \/><br \/><\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li>Dec 27 &#8211; Christmas Bird Count<\/li>\r\n<li>Nov 14 &#8211; Waterbirds at La Salle Park, Burlington<\/li>\r\n<li>Nov 13 &#8211; Late Flowering Plant Survey<\/li>\r\n<li>Nov 13 &#8211; Mulch Mania at Halton Hills Naturalized gardens<\/li>\r\n<li>Oct 2 &#8211; Scotch Block Reservoir and St Helena Road Fall Foliage<\/li>\r\n<li>Jul 5 &#8211; Wilfred G Crozier Nature Reserve<\/li>\r\n<li>Jun 21 &#8211; Morden Neilson Park Georgetown<\/li>\r\n<li>Mar 21 &#8211; Winter Tree Identification and Nature Walk<\/li>\r\n<li>Mar 14 &#8211; Tundra Swans at Long Point<\/li>\r\n<li>Feb 16 &#8211; Snowy Owls<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>2021 <\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Aug 17 &#8211; The Emergence of Mayflies<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>2020 <\/strong> <br \/>\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>Dec 27 &#8211; Christmas Bird Count<\/li>\r\n<li>Nov 17 &#8211; Late Flowering Plants Survey<\/li>\r\n<li>Nov 2 &#8211; Woody vegetation removal FCPP<\/li>\r\n<li>Oct 1 &#8211; Nest Box Cleaning at Forks of the Credit<br \/>Provincial Park<\/li>\r\n<li>Sep 29 &#8211; Nest Box Cleaning at Scotsdale Farm<\/li>\r\n<li>Sep 27 &#8211; Duck Identification and Bird Walk at Scotch Block.<\/li>\r\n<li>Sep 14 &#8211; Mothing and Caterpillars<\/li>\r\n<li>Aug 8 &#8211; Oakvile High School Chimney Swift Watch<\/li>\r\n<li>Jun 11 &#8211; Birdbox Monitoring at Scotsdale Farm<\/li>\r\n<li>May 25 \u2013 A Pollinator and Biodiversity Workshop<\/li>\r\n<li>May 19 &#8211; Spring Birding at Thickson Wood, Lynde Shores Conservation Area and Cranberry Marsh<\/li>\r\n<li>May 4 &#8211; Community Nature Walk and Clean Up<\/li>\r\n<li>Apr 22 &#8211; Timberdoodles Scotsdale Farm<\/li>\r\n<li>Apr 13 &#8211; Beamer Conservation AreaHawkwatch, Grimsby<\/li>\r\n<li>Mar 16 &#8211; Tundra Swans at Long Point<\/li>\r\n<li>Mar 3 &#8211; Animal Tracking at Terra Cotta Conservation<\/li>\r\n<li>Feb 23 &#8211; Animal Tracking at Terra Cotta Conservation<\/li>\r\n<li>Jan 13 &#8211; Winter Trees and Birds in the Hand<\/li>\r\n<li>Jan 6 &#8211; Snowy Owls, Snow Buntings and Other Winter Songbirds<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>2019<br \/><br \/><\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li>Dec 27 &#8211; Christmas Bird Count<\/li>\r\n<li>Nov 11 &#8211; Survey of late blooming plants.<\/li>\r\n<li>Oct 28 &#8211; Bird Box Cleaning at Scotsdale Farm<\/li>\r\n<li>Oct 21 &#8211; Norway Maple removal at Silver Creek<br \/>Conservation Area<\/li>\r\n<li>Oct 14 &#8211; Bird Box Cleaning at Forks of the Credit<br \/>Provincial Park<\/li>\r\n<li>Sep 30 &#8211; Bird Box Cleaning at Scotsdale Farm<\/li>\r\n<li>Sep 15 &#8211; Group Litter Pick Up in Georgetown<\/li>\r\n<li>Sep 8 -Mothing at Fiona Reid\u2019s Niagara Escarpment property<\/li>\r\n<li>Jul 21 &#8211; Dragonflies with David D&#8217;Entremont<\/li>\r\n<li>Jul 21 &#8211; Mothapaooza in Speyside<\/li>\r\n<li>Jun 23\/24 &#8211; Outing to Carden Alvar<\/li>\r\n<li>Jun 16 &#8211; Moths, caterpillars, frogs and other creatures of the night<\/li>\r\n<li>May 20 &#8211; Spring Birding at Thickson Wood, Lynde Shores Conservation Area and Cranberry Marsh<\/li>\r\n<li>May 12 &#8211; World Migratory Bird Day<\/li>\r\n<li>May 5 &#8211; Woodland wildflowers and early-arriving birds<\/li>\r\n<li>Apr22 &#8211; Bird Box Installation at Forks of the Credit Provincial Park<\/li>\r\n<li>Apr 21 &#8211; Beamer Conservation Area Hawkwatch<\/li>\r\n<li>Apr 20 &#8211; Woodcocks at Forks of the Credit Provincial Park<\/li>\r\n<li>Apr 13 &#8211; Salamanders at Silver Creek Education Centre<\/li>\r\n<li>Mar 17 &#8211; Tundra Swans at Long Point<\/li>\r\n<li>Feb 17 &#8211; Owls at Claireville Conservation Area<\/li>\r\n<li>Jan 28 &#8211; Winter Bird Outing for Snowy Owls<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>2018<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check here often for upcoming outings. Our club is 60 years old this year. This appeared in the Georgetown Herald in 1966\u00a0 Monday, September 7, 2026 2:00 p.m.Pollinator Gardens and Willow Park (map)Leaders: Fiona Reid &amp; Katherine Shaw This year starts off with an outing, before our indoor meeting.We will meet in the parking lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/outings\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Outings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4gne2-i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":604,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113450,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/113450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}