Learn About the Junior Egrets

By JoAnn Grondin The Egrets team consisted of team captain Cathy Lapain and member JoAnn Grondin.  We were also joined by two of Cathy’s sisters:  Peg Mills and Kenlyn Bryant. I started counting around 7:00 am by spotting one of the Bald Eagles that nest on Fighting Island and the Mute Swans that hang around the Island.   We met in Essex at 7:30 am.  Once Kenlyn’s van was loaded with all our supplies, we headed [...]

By Howard Williams Over the last 30 years, Dave Kraus has led 25 field trips to Pelee Island for Essex County Nature members.  We spent two days there and were capably bussed around the very bumpy roads by Linda Froese to nine stops and kilometres of slow road traverses, hunting for birds and wildflowers.  For Carole and I, it was our first visit to the island.  We managed to identify over 57 bird species, and [...]

By Carl Maiolani Jane's Walk is an annual festival of free, community-led walking conversations inspired by Jane Jacobs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs ). On or about the first weekend of May every year, Jane's Walk festivals take place in hundreds of cities around the world. Jane's Walks encourage people to share stories about their neighbourhoods, discover unseen aspects of their communities, and use walking as a way to connect with their neighbours. This year the Windsor-Essex Jane's Walk [...]

By Gina Pannunzio and Ian Naisbitt    The first Earth Day was on 22 April, 1970. Since then it has become an annual event to celebrate Mother Earth and to support local community environmental actions. Some passionate organisations have expanded their celebrations to call it Earth Week or even April as Earth Month! On Saturday, 21 April, 1990, the Little River Enhancement Group (Lil’ Reg) and partners organised our first Earth Day celebration by participating in [...]

By Howard Williams  Weather is always a topic of conversation and in March, we started lamb-like and then the lion roared in mid-March. Up and down – do we really want the certainty that comes with being further north, out of the various depression tracks that meander across southern Ontario? Probably not if you like spring in late March. I was made aware of an archaic term: APRICITY: the warmth of the sun on a [...]