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MPFN InPerson Mtg.
MPFN InPerson Mtg.
Paul Riss is an award-winning ad director/documentary filmmaker (CBC Docs “Rare Bird Alert”) /Punk Rock Birder.
Carden InPerson Mtg.
Annual Joint Meeting of the Four Area Naturalist Clubs (Carden, Orillia, Midland-Penetanguishene, Barrie). Carden Recreation Centre, Lake Dalrymple (closer to the date we’ll see about organizing carpooling for this event).
Ontario Nature Huronia Regional Meeting
Joint Meeting of Area Nature Clubs Hosted by Nature Barrie
Friday Sept. 22 2023 7:30 PM, Northwest Barrie United Church, 464 Ferndale Dr. N. Barrie
Joint Meeting of Area Nature Clubs: This year it’s Nature Barrie’s turn to host. They’ve lined up Peter Burke of the Kirtland Warbler Habitat Restoration Project to update us on this great good news for nature story. The Joint Meetings are a great opportunity to meet some wonderful naturalists from Nature Barrie, Carden Field Naturalists, and the Orillia Naturalists Club. Let’s make sure we have good representation from the MPFN!
MPFN Annual General Meeting, Potluck Dinner and Member’s Night
Thurs. June 20, 2024 Wye Marsh
AGM/Potluck/Member’s Night. Walk at 5:30, Potluck at 6:15, AGM and member’s presentations to follow, along with our brain teasing Nature Quiz.
MPFN Monthly Meeting at the Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre
Thurs. May 16, 2024 7:30 PM Wye Marsh
Author Edward Struzik. He has written several books including “Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs and the Improbable World of Peat” and two books on wildfires; “Firestorm: How Wildfires Will Shape Our Future” and “Dark Days at Noon: The Future of Fire”. We’re calling Ed’s presentation “Wetlands and Wildfire”, two topics that he believes are strongly related.
MPFN Monthly Meeting at the Wye Marsh Nature Centre
Thurs. Apr. 18, 2024, 7:30 PM Wye Marsh
Author Adam Shoalts, one of the MPFN Nature Book Club’s favourite authors. His latest book (to be released this October) is Where The Falcon Flies: A 3400 Km Odyssey from my Doorstep to the Arctic. From Penguin Random House: “Looking out his porch window one spring morning, Adam Shoalts spotted a majestic peregrine falcon flying across the neighbouring fields near Lake Erie. Falcons migrate annually from southernmost Canada to remote arctic mountains. Grabbing his backpack and canoe, Shoalts resolved to follow the falcon’s route north on an astonishing 3,400 kilometre journey to the Arctic.”
MPFN Monthly Meeting on ZOOM
Thurs. Mar. 21, 2024, 7:30 PM Zoom Presentation
Bob Bell, author; Out of the Lymelight and Into the Sunlight: Birding as Therapy for the Chronically Ill. Bob tells a moving and interesting story of his personal experience with lyme disease and birding.