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Lakeshore (ONNS) Christmas Bird Count 2025-2026 Results
By Jeremy Bensette Thanks again to everyone who participated in the Lakeshore Christmas Bird Count on January 3, 2026. We had a great birding day with relatively comfortable winter conditions, safe roads, and some nice socializing with some participants attending the group breakfast and/or late afternoon dinner. While we did not experience last year's strong wind, or rain/snow, the cold temperature and ice on Lake St Clair presented a bit of a birding challenge. Despite these winter [...]
Results of the 2025 Holiday Beach CBC
By: Jeremy Hatt The 20th Holiday Beach CBC took place on December 27 with 29 volunteers counting a total of 82 species and 62,905 individual birds. This is the third highest species total since the Count was started in 2005. Previous high counts are 94 (set in 2024) and 88 (set in 2023). This is a testament to the volunteers who put an exceptional effort into covering their areas and inspecting large flocks of birds closely for that [...]
Second Year of the Comber CBC Continues to Highlight Lesser-Birded Region of Essex County
By: Jeremy Hatt The second Comber CBC took place on December 21, 2025. 22 keen participants volunteered for the Count this year, up from the 16 intrepid birders who covered the CBC in its inaugural year in 2024. Almost everyone who participated joined for a casual roundup at A&W in Comber to go over the results and discuss the highs (best birds, camaraderie) and lows (agonizing misses, the cold) of the Count. It was great [...]
ECFNC Goes Batty!
By Janice Boussey A huge thank you to those members that participated in the Backyard Bat Acoustic Monitoring program in partnership with the Toronto Zoo. The zoo was gracious enough to share their data and give a virtual presentation at our October meeting. They provided a good overview of bats around the world and told us a little more about our local species. It was an exciting summer watching the data come in at each [...]
Introducing the Butterfly Committee
By Jeremy Hatt I am excited to announce that ECFNC now has a Butterfly Committee! The Butterfly Committee is devoted to tracking, conserving, and educating on butterflies in Essex County. Zabulon Skipper and Pearl Crescent As a brand new Committee, there is still a lot of work to be done but we have completed a few primary tasks to get things up and running! Created an eButterfly account for the Club to input noteworthy and [...]