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Index of Subjects Hi, Joan, Please sign me up for the Bon Portage weekend in early September. It looks like I'll be able to make the trip for the first time in while. Considering my past luck in having storms keep me off the island (or on it), I hope I don't become a jinx in making the winds and waves too high for the crossing. Brian, still in jet-lag mode after return last night two 2 weeks in Belgium and Holland... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Czapalay" <joancz@ns.sympatico.ca> To: "NatureNS" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 11:33 AM Subject: [NatureNS] Re: Nature outings in SW nova > Many readers who are not presently members of NatureNS (FNSN) may be > interested in joining some of our activities next weekend. Here is the > program: > > NATURE NOVA SCOTIA outing and annual general meeting: 30^th , 31^st May, > and June 1^st , 2008. > > Visitors Information Centre, 2517 Highway 3, R.R #1 Barrington , Nova > Scotia B0W 1E0 902-637-2625 > > Friday, May 30^th , 7-9 pm: > > Meet and Greet: light refreshments, wine and cheese, tea and coffee. > Sign–up for field trips and view various displays. > > 8 p.m.: Special speaker - Sherman Boates , Manager, Wildlife Resources , > NS Department of Natural Resources. > > 9 pm: Owl Prowl on the Wireless Hill Road. > > 10 pm: Astronomy with Larry Bogan at Wireless Hill. > > Saturday, May 31^st , 8 am: > > Visitors’Centre meeting place for announcements and displays. Day trip #1 > : Pubnico area (morning) : Look for Roseate Terns with Ted D’Eon. Bring > your lunch, or try the delicious “Acadian Sampler” at the Red Cap in West > Pubnico. > > (afternoon) A : Free choice : visit to the Pubnico Point Windfarm, the > Acadian Village, the Acadian Museum, the Robert’s Island Ducks Unlimited > site, and return via the Lighthouse route. > > (afternoon) B : Return at noon time to join the CSI trip or the Bacarro > trip. Meeting arrangements will be announced. > > Day trip #2 : Explore Cape Sable Island (morning): The Hawk and other > popular locations. Brant feed on the flats in the late winter and early > spring; Piping Plover traditionally nest on sandy beaches in the area; > shorebirds stage here in great numbers during migration. Visit the IBA > site and learn about the Nature Canada special status of CSI-IBA. This is > the only known site in Canada where American Oystercatchers nest. > > (afternoon) A special “Botany in a Bog” trip on CSI is planned with Ruth > and Reg Newell. Look for sea birds off Hawk Beach, see the sunken forest, > and visit the Natural Resources property on the most South Western tip of > Nova Scotia. > > Day trip #3: Port La Tour peninsula and Baccaro Point. > > Botany, birds, and butterflies with Donna Ensor and Joan Czapalay. Visit > site of an early French fortress, Fort St. Louis. > > If time permits a trip to Blanche may be arranged. > > Day trip #4 (am) Visit the site of the endangered Thread- leafed Sundew > with Sherman Boates and Lillian Perry. Swaines’ Bog and four other bogs in > the area are the only locations in Canada of these special carnivorous > plants. > > Sunday, 1^st June, 2008 > > _The Nature __Nova Scotia__ __AGM_: 9 am at Papa’s Steak House. This > restaurant is just before the CSI Causeway on the right (west) side of the > road. Breakfast will be free for Nature Nova Scotia members. Guests will > be accommodated at a special price of approximately $7.00. > > Prior to the agm an early morning nature walk will be offered at 7:30 am > on the Sherose Island Nature Trail behind the arena parking lot and/or on > the Barrington Passage Trail which runs by the restaurant. Directions for > both hikes will be posted at the Visitor’s Centre. We urge that you > carpool. > > Afternoon field trips: Bring a lunch or pick one up following the agm. > Depart from the Visitors’ Centre or Steak House. > > Trip 1) Birding CSI with our South West Nova Birders. > > Trip 2) Atlas for woodland breeding birds: Clyde River area with Joan > Czapalay. Explore a variety of habitats. (Bring waterproof foot wear and > insect repellent.) > > Trip 3) Nature and local history trip: Villagedale, Sand Hills, Sebim > Beach, and early Acadian settlement and fortifications with Lillian Perry. > >
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