St. Thomas Field Naturalist Club
Nurturing nature in Elgin.
With the snow fresh on the ground it is time to think about this years CBC.We will be holding it as usual on Boxing Day the 26th of December.The declining bird populations really make this citizen science project extremelyuseful in comparing declines and the…
This year was a really warm CBC with a high of 10 degrees Celsius, we started the day with rain but it proceeded to get drier as the day progressed. All the water in our area was open, yet that did not help with…
This years Christmas Bird Count will be on Tuesday, December 26th.Our club has participated in this citizen science project since it was created in 1950.Last year we had 14,525 birds with 82 species. There will be no potluck after the days count.If you would…
The winter season brings up the Christmas Bird Count. Our club has participatedevery year since its inception in September 1950. The Count is the longest running Citizen Science project. The count is based on a 24-km diameter circle centred at John Wise Line and…
Results of St. Thomas Field Naturalist Club 2020 CBC held on Dec 26, 2020. Photograph of Trumpeter Swan taken at Port Stanley Sewage Lagoon by Diane Dobson. We had natures coat of snow to thank for our success this year. Birds were flocking to…
Results of St. Thomas Field Naturalist Club 2019 CBCheld on Dec 26, 2019 This year we had above zero degree temperatures and green grass. The standing waters were mostly frozen and the moving waters were mostly open. We had 52 people out looking this…
As December is upon us it is time to think about the 119th Annual Christmas Bird Count. This is St. Thomas’s 70th count. We will be doing the count on Boxing Day, Wednesday the 26th of December. This is the longest running citizen science…
The CBC took root over a century ago when 27 birders in 25 localities from Toronto, Ontario to Pacific Grove, California, led by ornithologist Frank Chapman, proposed a conservation-oriented alternative to the traditional ‘side hunt,’ a Christmas Day competition to hunt the…
The day was cut a little short by the heavy fog in afternoon. We had new species of Dunlin found on beach in Port Bruce and Black Vulture spotted on beach at Port Stanley during count week. We had new highs with Golden Eagle(3),…