2009 Stewardship Annual Report

The 2009 Stewardship Annual Report is now available for download (PDF format). Another excellent year. Thanks to all the volunteer Stewardship members for all their hard work and dedication.

Spring Cleaning

Repaired Boardwalk

Many thanks to King Township staff for their quick response to fixing the boardwalk. A tree had come down Mid-March, crushing a section of the boardwalk. Three days later, the boardwalk was back in operation, looking good as new.

Happy Spring Hiking.

2009 Nesting Box Tenants

Box #
Type
Tenants
Box #
Type
Tenants

1

T

Chickadee 

27

P

Chickadee

2

T

Chickadee 2 eggs

28

T

Tree Swallow

3

T

Chickadee

29

T

Tree Swallow

4

T

Chickadee

30

T

Grass nest 4 blue eggs* move

5

T

Empty 

31

T

empty

6

T

Tree Swallow

32

T

Wren

7

T

Chickadee

33

T

Wren * move

8

T

Tree Swallow / Wren

34

P

Wren

9

P

Blue Bird /Wren

35

P

Tree Swallow /Wren

10

T

Wren 3 eggs unhatched & 1 broken

38

P

Tree Swallow/Wren 

11

P

Empty

37

P

Sticks only

12

T

Empty

38

P

Blue  Bird /Wren

13

T

empty

39

P

Blue Bird nest with 4 dead chicks

14

T

Wren* move 

40

P

Wren * move

15

T

Wren

41

P

Blue Bird/Wren.

16

T

Wren

42

P

Wren 

17

T

Tree Swallow/Wren 

43

D

Blue Bird /Wren  * move

18

T

empty

44

P

empty

19

T

Wren /wasps

45

P

Wren * move

20

P

Wren 

46

S

Blue bird/Wren

21

P

Swallow/Wren

47

S

Wren

22

P

Blue bird

48

S

Blue Bird

23

T

Tree Swallow

49

S

Blue Bird

24

P

Tree [...]

2009 Songbird Nest Boxes Summary

• Boxes were monitored to a limited amount April through to July
• 44 of 51 boxes were occupied in 2009, 7 were empty.
• Some boxes have multiple nests. There were 5 blue bird nests, 5 blue bird and wren nests, 6 chickadee nests, 8 trees swallow nests, 4 trees swallow and wren nests, and 13 [...]

Turning Down the Heat

The King Environmental Movie Series presents:

Turning Down The Heat:
The New Energy Revolution

King Township Public Library
Thursday, April 8th at 7 pm.

“I must tell you this is one of the sweetest pieces of work I’ve seen in a very long time. You’ve made a real concerto out of a potentially dry and pretty lifeless subject. It’s smooth [...]