Bring your – skulls, minerals, fungi an so on for the nature nugget table, books for the nature book exchange table, samples that you want to view with the microscopes that will be available. If you haven’t already sent in images or reserved a table for a display there is still time to do so. Contact Ron Jasiuk at rjasiuk@sympatico.ca
The Letter “P X 3” – Can you name the “P” creatures? The first “P” has chewed the bark off of at least 57 Red Pine tress in a small area of the Alton Grange. Interesting that numerous Hemlock and scattered deciduous saplings were untouched except for one sapling. The second “P” was calling throughout the Hockley Valley Nature Preserve. This very large excavation was found this past Monday before the snow arrived. The third “P” at least 36 of them took over our bird feeders once the temperatures dropped accompanied by the falling snow.
Our next field trip will be a Geology and Geomorphology Field Trip on Saturday Feb 13th. If you are a member of the Upper Credit Field Naturalists Club, you should have received a more detailed notice. If you are not a member … well … Our goal is to help us all learn how to see our local landscape in a way that’s more inter-connected and explicable than just seeing it as pretty and hilly. We’re going to look first at the general area of the old Orangeville brickworks, and get some idea of how that mix of clay and marl was deposited some 12,000 years ago. That involves learning about the Alton moraine plug that was dropped by the last glacial advance in this area when a lobe of ice temporarily moved back northwest across what is now Lake Ontario during a brief period of regrowth of the otherwise… Read more »