St.Thomas Field Naturalist Club Inc.

Welcome to the St.Thomas Field Naturalist Club Inc. home page. We are a long standing field nature club, having been formed in 1950, incorporated in 1985. Please feel free to browse our blog and learn more about our club and its activities. Regular meetings are held at 7:30 p.m. at Knox Presbyterian Church, 55 Hincks Street, St.Thomas, on the first Friday of the month, October to May.

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Bobolink


Hi Diane:

I expect you have seen him on your list by now but thought I'd tell you about him anyway. I saw this little guy this afternoon (May 28). Lots of competition with red-winged blackbirds but a great big field of grass for them. He was on the south side of Crinan Road just west of the place at 26437 Crinan Road between Dunborough and Graham, if you want to try to find him. Bobolinks aren't that common any more because you do not see fields like this very often. Don't know if there are plans to cut the field but the farms on either side didn't look to prosperous so they might leave it alone long enough for babies to fledge.

See you soon - Jan

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Merlin Nest in St.Thomas

Hi Everyone, I know some of you got this last night (July 12) but I just got this message from Bob Hubert saying that Jim Dunn, at 126 Redan Street, would be happy to have bird watchers viewing the family of Merlins on his property. You can also see them from the Canadian Tire parking lot.

Don Fowler says he thinks that's a first for St.Thomas.

Diane.

Dave Martin adds: It's the first known Merlin nest in Elgin County making it the farthest south nest in Canada. London has had a breeding pair for two years now making that pair Middlesex's first known breeding pair. They are moving south quickly but even at the end of the latest Breedng Bird Atlas there were only 4 records in the Carolian Zone. By the next atlas they'll be everywhere.

Dave Martin.