Annual Dinner - November 8, 2025

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 [...]

By Gina Pannunzio, Pearl Bradd, Paul Drca and Ian Naisbitt The above normal temperatures on Saturday, 15 April, 2023 attracted 40 eager community volunteers to the 42nd cleanup of the Little River Watershed. Even a few Essex County Nature elders shuffled their way to Teedie Park in East Windsor. The park is best described as a linear, peaceful corridor on the banks of the Little River that curves around the Canadian Tire Corporation Store site [...]

By Dave Kraus Saturday May 6 & Sunday May 7, 2023. Leave at 10:00 am Saturday from Leamington Dock aboard the M.V. Pelee Islander II (be at the dock by 9:10 am). We will return to Leamington Dock by 5:45 pm Sunday We will likely see:  migrating waterfowl & warblers, wildflowers such as trilliums & waterleaf, basking turtles and snakes, bullfrogs, historic sites, and hear a chorus or two of American Toads, to suggest a [...]

By Donny Moore Now is the time to start thinking about Spring birds. Although we have likely had a few early birds return to the area due to the mild winter, the Spring birding season starts in March. Some of you readers may have been at my presentation about birding in the water treatment facilities and heard about the diversity that can be encountered there. Well this is a great time to start checking them [...]