RHN members take flight in 2012 Baillie Birdathon
Several Richmond Hill Naturalists are among the more than 7,000 people from across Canada (and from several countries around the world) participating in and/or sponsoring a participant in the Baillie...
View ArticleChristmas Bird Count 2012!
Hope you can join us on Dec 15th for the Annual Christmas Bird Count. Please contact Gene lezned@yorku.ca or 905 889 – 7888if your interested in participating for the morning, afternoon or the full...
View ArticleRichmond Hill Naturalists present Bridget Stutchbury: Songbirds’ Epic Journey
Each fall, billions of songbirds leave Canada on an epic journey to their far-away wintering grounds in Central and South America where many live in tropical forests shared by toucans, howler monkeys,...
View ArticleBird Sightings – September/October 2013
Compiled by Bruce Brydon Reesor Pond continues to be a good spot in Southern York Region to see a wide variety of water birds such as Hooded Mergansers, Snow Geese and Cackling Geese. Many species of...
View ArticleLeslie Spit Outing
On Saturday, 28 Sept, a group of Naturalists gathered at the base of the Leslie Spit (aka Tommy Thompson Park) for a morning of birding. The goal was to work our way out to the Bird Research Station...
View ArticleHudsonian and Marbled Godwits – Bird Studies Group October 2013
By Gene Denzel The Bird Studies group gathered at the Denzel home for the first meeting of the season. We were keen to inform each other about the various aspects of the two target birds, and share any...
View Article2013 Christmas Bird Count
On December 14th, 2013, small groups of Richmond Hill Naturalists and friends will rise early, bundle up, strap on their binoculars and spread out across southern York Region counting every single bird...
View ArticleBirding at the Cawthra-Mulock Nature Reserve
On Saturday morning, 24 May, a group of 9 members (see picture by C Mancey) convened at the Cawthra-Mulock reserve at 7:45 am, mostly having car-pooled from the RH Go station. The weather was cool but...
View ArticleTake Part in 115th Annual Christmas Bird Count
The annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC) – the longest-running Citizen Science survey in the world – will take place from December 14, 2014 to January 5, 2015. Tens of thousands of volunteers throughout...
View ArticleChristmas Bird Count results
We had a record number of feeder watchers (14+), plus 2 ‘super-watchers’ with elaborate feeder setups and detailed observing (Michael Biro in area 3 and Miranda O’Hara in area 2), mostly thanks to the...
View ArticleBird Study Group January report
The Bird Study Group welcomed in 2016 on January 13 at Mike Turk’s home where the topic for the evening was the comparison of two similar-sized, “chunky” wetland birds, Wilson’s Snipe and the American...
View ArticleFebruary Bird Group Report
Birdgroup Meeting February 2016 The birdgroup met on February 11 2016, at the home of Athena Antiochos. There were eight members present to hear a discussion of the two species of the Cuculidae family...
View ArticleMarch Bird Group meeting report— Northern Bobwhite and Gray Partridge
Our regular Meeting was held on the 2nd Wed of March at Martin Chen’s home. A good turnout enjoyed the light refreshments while chatting before getting down to the business of discussing the two birds...
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CBC Preliminary Results 2017
Just some preliminary results from our Christmas Bird Count, held on Saturday 17 Dec. We had 8 groups out in the field, and a number of feeder-watchers at home. The results were not too bad considering...
View Article2019 Christmas Bird Count
The 2019 Richmond Hill Christmas Bird Count was held on Saturday, December 14. Despite the snow members scoured dozens of local parks, woodlots, ravines, backyard birdfeeders to find 45 species of...
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