Annual Dinner - November 8, 2025

By: Jeremy Hatt 2019 was another productive and exciting year for our Club with regard to our continued involvement with Ontario SwiftWatch, a project of Birds Canada. Not only did we have another successful year contributing data to the spring roost monitoring project from May to June, we also confirmed new roosting and nesting sites in Essex County and held two very successful Swift Night Outs in Kingsville and Windsor. A bit of background: Since [...]

By Carl Maiolani On Wednesday Feb. 19th, the Membership Committee hosted the 4th New Member Orientation meeting at the Ojibway Nature Centre. Altogether, 26 people participated in this annual event designed to help newish members better understand the organizational structure and workings of our club. We started the session at 6:30 pm with pizza and home-baked cookies courtesy of the board of directors and a couple committee members. Carl Maiolani led the presentation by guiding the [...]

From Gina Pannunzio For the first time in the history of the Detroit River, an international community-based effort, the Great Global CleanUp: Detroit River, will hold the largest one-day cleanup event on Saturday, April 25, 2020 between 8:00 a.m. and noon. In collaboration with the Earth Day Network and to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, nine local organizations from the U.S. and Canada will mobilize an estimated 5,000 volunteers from both countries to join together to protect, [...]

By Chris Hart In October, the Pelee Island Bird Observatory (PIBO), along with CBC Windsor, asked children ages four to 12 to make a short video about why trees are important. From those submissions, 10 children were selected to attend a Forest Walk with Diana Beresford-Kroeger around Ojibway on Monday, November 4th. I volunteered for this PIBO event, and after ensuring that each child (and their parents) had their safety and consent forms filled out, [...]

By Jessica Middleton Photo by Andy Paul Last month, renowned scientist, author, and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger came to Windsor as part of a tour to promote her new book, To Speak For the Trees. On Sunday November 3rd, Ms. Beresford-Kroeger gave a talk to a packed Student Life Centre at St. Clair College.  She was greeted by a “Green Carpet” of local environmental advocates and students with signs showing their support for the student climate [...]