Welcome to our club for kids!

This is your place to connect with the Junior Egrets, explore educational resources, find fun nature-themed activities, watch wildlife through videos, expand your nature knowledge and share about your adventures and discoveries!

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Junior Egrets

About the Junior Egrets

The Junior Egrets is the Essex County Field Naturalists’ Club for kids. The goal of the Junior Egrets program is to inspire and support a community of young field naturalists by providing opportunities for kids to connect with nature and each other. Events under the Junior Egrets program are tailored to all ages. We encourage families to come out and participate in outings with local experts.

Upcoming events

New Events to be announced soon!

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Here’s some activities you can do!

Backyard nature scavenger hunt

Learn how to create a nature journal

Check out the salamander activity book

Make a simple bird feeder for your backyard

Go on a backyard microhike

Experiment with dandelions

Earth Ranger’s eco activities

Look

Check out some of these nature videos!

 

Essex County Nature’s Youtube Channel

Feeder Cam from Ontario

Saving the Fowler’s Toad

 

Algonquin Park Earth Cam

Monarch Migration

Mudpuppy Night

 

Black Bears with Rick Mercer

Helping Turtles Cross the Road

The Wonder of Ojibway Prairie

Recipe for Massasauga Recovery

Searching for Woodland Caribou

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Let’s learn together

Here are some family friendly resources to help you learn more about nature!

Seek by iNaturalist – train to be come a citizen scientist

Invader raiders colouring book – Learn about invasive species

Know your trees – learn more about trees

All about birds – learn to identify the birds you see in your yard

Insects of Ojibway – What you might see around Ojibway Park

Reptiles & amphibians – Find out how many species there are in Ontario

What’s your eco footprint?

Nature guide for late June/early July

Share

Here’s where we’ll share some local nature sightings. Please also share your nature sightings with us!

Check out Jessica’s Nature Journal – Spring Awakenings

Share your sightings or send your questions and suggestions to us!