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Butterfly Committee Takes Flight!
By: Jeremy Hatt The Butterfly Committee has a few exciting announcements to share as we approach spring. The first is that the Committee now has a logo thanks to the artistry of Janice Boussey. The Committee is represented by the Pearl Crescent, a common butterfly of Essex County that can be found from April to October but is most abundant in late July to early August and mid-September. This variable pollinator of meadows and roadsides [...]
Turtle Conservation Committee Update and Call for Volunteers
By Alexander Campbell The 2025 field season for the Turtle Conservation Committee (TCC) was a very successful one!From the end of March till mid November, members of the TCC were very busy helping to conserve everyone's favourite reptile. From wading through dense vegetated wetlands, to responding to late calls about nesting and injured turtles, here is a breakdown of all the fantastic work that the dedicated members accomplished in 2025.2025 Stats:345 newly documented turtle observations500+ [...]
Bluebird Committee Update
By Don Bissonette Here are the Bluebird Trail statistics from the 2025 nesting season. We collected statistics from 14 Bluebird Trails, with a total of 90 Birdhouses. Four of these trails, are the Nature Club's Bluebird Committee trails, with a total of 20 Birdhouses. The other 10 trails are Affiliate trails. In the 2025 Nesting Season, we counted a total of 13 successful pairs of Eastern Bluebirds, which produced 63 Fledglings. Also, these 14 [...]
Depths of Winter 2026
By Jeremy Hatt Since 2015, birders in Essex County have kept a list of all the species found in our area during the month of February, a challenge we call the “Depths of Winter”. It was originally started to encourage local birders to get out during the coldest month of the year and to have a friendly competition amongst ourselves. 2026 proved to be one of our coldest winters in recent memory so any encouragement [...]
ECFNC Teams with the Ontario Field Ornithologists for their Annual Detroit River Outing
By: Jeremy Hatt 16 participants attended the Detroit River outing on January 10th, an annual event co-hosted by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) and the Essex County Field Naturalists' Club. Kory Renaud and I led walk again this year. We had a great day with 50 species observed across 7 eBird hotspots in Windsor and Tecumseh. Temperatures stayed around 2C for the day with low winds, making it a comfortable outing. The sky remained cloudy throughout the day and [...]