Summertime Sundries
Hello everyone,
Lots of great birding and nature-watching in Perth County these days...
Hello everyone,
Lots of great birding and nature-watching in Perth County these days...
Carolinian Canada is excited to announce that we will once again sponsoring an attendee to the sixth annual Ontario Nature Youth Summit. The summit is a fantasitc oportunity for young leaders from across Ontario to come together for a weekend of exploration, learning, and outdoor fun. The summit is an important event for young people who are interested in learning more about the important issues of the day like food security, endangered species, medicinal plants and sustainability. Participants will partake in a youth leadership forum, develop plans for conservation work, and meet young leaders from across Ontario. Spectacular hiking and canoeing will be had, as well as time around the campfire with their peers.
We've changed our Twitter handle! @CarolinianCan is now @carolinianzone. Our old handle definitely caused confusion (don't you really want to just type @caroliniancanada?), so we decided to switch it up and pick something new that still represents us to the core. We are all about Canada's Deep South, and now our twitter handle is in the zone! If you already follow us on Twitter, you don't have to do anything, and you can still search for us by our full name. If you would like to send us a tweet, just enter @carolinianzone in your Twitter app and we'll see your message.
As of the end of June my species total is 263 for the Carolinian Zone -- just seven species shy of my "modest" target of 270 with half a year to go. Getting there since my last post in early May has been quite a birding delight. In one afternoon at Point Pelee, I added two species to my all-time Ontario life list: a most obliging Chuck-Will's-Widow and the ever-elusive (in Ontario) Mississippi Kite. This was on May 16. I had heard about the Chuck-Will's-Widow, which was discovered earlier that day along the Woodland Trail south of the Visitor's Centre....