Come and meet Willy Waterton & Audrey Armstrong, two members from one of our neighbouring field naturalist clubs in Owen Sound. They will be speaking about their new book on orchids found in Bruce Peninsula area. This is the fifth edition, a complete re-working of the standard guide for orchids in that part of Southern Ontario. The Owen Sound Club has a wonderful history and ongoing practice of putting together authoritative field guides, of which this orchid guide is but one!
Fiona Reid will be telling us about moths that pollinate on Tuesday evening, April 30th at 7:00 P.M. at our usual location in the Seniors Centre on Bythia Street in Orangeville. Fiona Reid has been leading nature tours since 1986, showing ecotourists the mammals and other wildlife of diverse lands from Brazil to Indonesia, and Alaska to Venezuela. An accomplished writer and artist, Fiona is the author and illustrator of A Peterson Field Guide to Mammals of North America. She has written and/or illustrated numerous other guides, including A Field Guide to the Mammals of Central America and Southeast Mexico, Bats of Trinidad and Tobago, The Wildlife of Costa Rica, a Field Guide, The Golden Guide to Bats of the World, Bats of Papua New Guinea, Mammals of the Neotropics (volumes 1-3), and several children’s books. She is a Departmental Associate in Mammalogy at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation… Read more »
Here are some images and some thoughts of mine on this most wondrous late Autumn!
