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March 2020
COVID-19 and FIELD TRIPS
Updated 16 March 2020: At this time, all planned field trips for March and early April are CANCELLED. Notices are posted for potential field trips later in spring, but check this website frequently for the latest updates.
Find out more »All in-person events are cancelled until April 15
March 21 update: In order to do our part to slow the spread of COVID-19, the KFN shall cease all field trips, face-to-face meetings and rambles from now until 15 April, and the executive will reassess whether or not to extend the ban prior 15 April and post our decision on or before 15 April.
Find out more »April 2020
Teen Naturalist Field Trip: Wolfe Island
Saturday 4 April 9:00am to 2:00pm. Birding Wolfe Island. With Mark Read. Use of ‘scopes.
Find out more »Ramble: Mitchell Creek
Tuesday 7 April 9:00 to 2:00pm Mitchell Creek property of Nature Conservancy Canada. Meet Rona (2342 Princess St. SE corner of parking lot). Bring lunch.
Find out more »General Meeting and AGM: Biodiversity in the Barrenlands
KFN General Meetings are held the third Thursday of the month at Ongwanada Resource Centre. Social begins at 7pm with meeting beginning at 7:30pm. Past meeting minutes are available here. April meeting is our Annual General Meeting(AGM). We will have a short report about our activities in the past year, the budget will be presented, ... Read more
Find out more »Field Trip: Prince Edward Point
Leader: Anthony Kaduck (613) 767-8398 or kaduckintransit@googlemail.com Search for early migrant songbirds and waterfowl at Prince Edward Point National Wildlife Area. Meet at Tim Hortons’s at the corner of Gardiner’s Road and Bath Road in Kingston at 6:00 am, or meet us at the Adolphustown ferry dock in time to board the 7:15 ferry. Should ... Read more
Find out more »May 2020
May Dinner Meeting
Our Annual Dinner meeting will be Thursday 21 May. This year our dinner will be at the Warrant Officers' and Sergeants' Mess, 18 Craftsman Blvd, CFB Kingston. (Next month’s newsletter will include a map.) This venue has ample parking and level access (NO stairs). The venue opens at 6:00, dinner starts at 7:00 pm. Cost ... Read more
Find out more »Field Trip: Presqu’ile Provincial Park & Brighton Wetlands
Leader: Steve Coates (sjcoates73@cogeco.ca) See many different types of birds in a single outing! We'll spend the morning visiting hotspots at Presqu'ile Provincial Park, including a 1 km hike along the Marsh Boardwalk trail, to look for songbirds, shorebirds, herons and egrets. Toward afternoon, we'll head over to a nearby constructed wetland that supports many ... Read more
Find out more »June 2020
Bioblitz
The 2020 BioBlitz of the KFN will be held at the new property of the Land Conservancy for KFLA west of Parham June 12-13, 2020. Full details will be available in April. If you would like to be on the e mail list for information (and have not been in the past) please e mail ... Read more
Find out more »October 2020
Field Trip: Lemoine’s Point
Leader: Steve Coates (sjcoates@cogeco.ca) Fall songbird migration is winding down but mid-October is a prime time to observe staging waterfowl in Collins Bay. Both ruby-crowned and golden-crowned kinglet numbers will be at their peak, as will white-crowned and yellow-throated sparrows; these will be joined by and early-arriving winter sparrows such as tree sparrows and dark-eyed ... Read more
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