by Trudy Irvine | Jul 21, 2022 | Environment, Nature
by Trudy Irvine, Education Committee Last week’s night skies brought multiple sightings of the Northern Lights over several days in Pointe au Baril. The dancing lights have fascinated and even frightened people for centuries, but as with rainbows in the sun, it...
by Trudy Irvine | Jul 21, 2022 | Environment, Nature
by Trudy Irvine, Education Committee Did you know dock spiders don’t make classic spider webs? That they can walk on water and scuba dive for prey for up to 30 minutes? That while they eat mostly aquatic insects, they can tackle minnows, tadpoles, and frogs up to...
by Trudy Irvine | Jul 31, 2021 | Environment, Nature
by Trudy Irvine, Member of Education Committee Videos courtesy of Liz Anderson-Peacock The graceful white-tailed deer is the most widely distributed and most numerous of all the large mammals of North America, and it is always magical to spot them out in the islands...
by Trudy Irvine | Jul 21, 2021 | Nature
by Trudy Irvine, Member of Education Committee Photos by Chrystal Barrett (1st one) and Trudy Irvine (2nd) “Gonna find my baby,gonna hold her tight,gonna grab some afternoon delight -my motto’s always been when it’s right, it’s right -why wait until the...
by Helen Bryce | Jul 17, 2021 | Environment, Water, Water levels
by Helen Bryce, Director of Education INTRODUCTION As a child growing up here every summer, I listened to my grandfather talk about the water levels. He described a 5 – 7 year cycle; and, as a child, I noticed the water level gradually rising each...
by Trudy Irvine | Jul 14, 2021 | Environment, Nature
I can attest that, as a student of biology in the early 90’s, anthropomorphism and personification were frowned upon. Plants and animals were to be viewed through a scientific lens and were largely regarded as an increasingly complex series of cellular structures and...
