December 2014: “Christmas Bird Counts“
Area counts for Grey Bruce are as follows:
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New Nature Link – Niagara Falls Nature Club
NOVEMBER 2014 e-Herald
The Owen Sound Field Naturalists’ e-Herald
****A FRIENDLY REMINDER****
OSFN Indoor Program: Thursday, November 20, 2014
(At the Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library auditorium @ 7:00 PM)
“FATAL LIGHT AWARENESS PROGRAM” with Paloma Plant
The fatal light awareness program is a non-profit organization that is governed by a Board of Directors and sustained by a terrific group of volunteers. FLAP was the first organization in the world to raise concerns about bird collisions with buildings in urban areas. Since 1993, FLAP volunteers have picked up tens of thousands of birds off city sidewalks.
Reminder for OSFN Outdoor Program for November 2014:
Sunday, November 16, 2014
“Waterfowl Around the Bay” with Fred Jazvac
Time: 10:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m.
Limit: 12 participants
Register: Fred Jazvac @ (519) 797-3332
Reminder for OSFN Outdoor Program for December 2014:
December 2014
“Christmas Bird Counts”
Watch the Hart’s Tongue Herald and e-Herald for the dates and count contacts for Christmas Bird Counts in Owen Sound, Meaford, Saugeen Shores, and Wiarton.
Reminder for OSFN Indoor program December 11, 2014:
“MEMBERS’ NIGHT with Bob Rice
A potpourri of OSFN members’ slides, displays, art, collections and compositions focusing on the natural world. A limit of 10 slides and 10 minutes of presentation time is preferred.
Please register your presentation with Bob Rice at bob@ningwakwe.on.ca and/or (519) 477-1728 as soon as possible.
The club relies on memberships and donations at the door and at the hospitality table, allowing us to bring in quality speakers and to support club initiatives such as the Hart’s Tongue Herald & Young Naturalists.
You may join or renew your OSFN membership at the meeting, by mail or
on-line from the website using Pay Pal. Thank you for your membership.
Membership runs from September to June.
*** Please remember to bring your coffee cups to meetings***
Red-headed woodpecker – two sightings now!
I want to report what I believe is a juvenile red-headed woodpecker at my feeder. We have Downy, Hairy and Red-Bellied woodpeckers frequently. I have never seen a Red-Headed woodpecker, yet when I looked this one up it seemed to be the only possible answer because of large white patch across back and wings and a brown/grey head on a somewhat streaked, but dark body. Have they been seen in this area? Would love to see a mature bird.
Liz Hierons ( in the Walter’s Falls area.)
Reply: We also had a Juvenile Red-headed Woodpecker at our feeders (we’re near Desboro). Ours turned up regularly for about a week in the middle of September. Its ‘alarm’ call is how we first noticed our woodpecker, the noise stood out from our usual backyard sounds. We had hoped to entice it to stay longer with delicious suet, but it moved on. This was the first we’d seen in the area.
Cheers, Brian Robin & Sarah Taylor
(Reply with your opinion about this possible sighting by emailing birding@owensoundfieldnaturalists.ca and it will be added to this post.)