Our last meeting for 2019 will be held on November 17th at 7 pm downstairs in the Rotary Room of the Florence Filberg Centre. You may renew or re-join CVN for 2020 at this meeting. The annual dues have been kept at $30 per individual or family (2 adults and all children 18 and under) for 2020. You can pay using a credit card or Paypal through our website (see comments for link.) Membership and waiver are available on the same page. You can fill out both forms, scan and send them to us as an email or by Canada Post, or drop by one of our meetings.
The guest presenter will be Paula Wild, a local, award-winning author of seven books including her newest release, “Return of the Wolf: Conflict and Coexistence.” A review of the book is available here:
Return of the Wolf: Conflict and Coexistence
www.amazon.ca
Return of the Wolf: Conflict and CoexistenceThe birders group had their first Sunday bird walk on November 3rd and visited the Courtenay Airpark. 19 birders found 35 species. The next three bird walks will be Thursdays (Nov 14, 21, and 28) and the next Sunday bird walk will be December 1st. Walks are open to all CVN members.
Snow Goose 9
Canada Goose 55
Eurasian Wigeon 3
American Wigeon 55
Mallard 90
Green-winged Teal 6
Surf Scoter 4
Bufflehead 5
Common Merganser 32
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Eurasian Collared-Dove 10
Anna’s Hummingbird 1
Bonaparte’s Gull 1
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Great Blue Heron 5
Bald Eagle 20
Belted Kingfisher 1
Northern Flicker 2
Merlin 1
Northwestern Crow 15
Common Raven 1
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 3
European Starling 25
House Finch 6
Pine Siskin 15
American Goldfinch 2
Spotted Towhee 3
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 4
White-crowned Sparrow 3
Golden-crowned Sparrow 3
Dark-eyed Junco 5
Red-winged Blackbird 5
Hello all in Comox Valley & Courtenay area involved in the natural history activities.
I was honored to attend the Urban Forest Conference yesterday hosted by the Comox Valley Naturalist Society.
I was very excited to attend this conference driving up from Victoria yesterday morning.
And, I was just blown away with the six speakers that came to speak so well prepared, full of passion, information & hopeful ideas - plant trees, shrubs now everyone...🌳🌲🐿🦉🦇🐛🦋🐌🐞🐜🕸🦆🦗
The time, energy & organization put into this conference helped to make it a huge success in my mind and I’m certain of those like minded & hopeful others needing Information to make better planning decisions for our local biospheric systems.
Thank you again,
Gratefully yours,
Chris Kane
Victoria
