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Spring
Cleaning at Thickson’s Woods
Saturday April
24 from nine to noon
Don’t call it
work, call it play! Housework is always more fun at someone else’s
place, in good company. Come play in the nature reserve, home to chipmunks,
foxes, yellow warblers and snapping turtles.
It’s an ironic
fact of our times that every chore on our Earth Day list has a root cause
with us humans.
- Garbage
cleanup: help pick up plastic bags and coffee cups blown into
the meadow, and refuse dumped into the marsh
- Garlic
mustard control: help dig up this invasive species introduced
by early settlers, now threatening woods across North America
- Loosening
beaver guards: if southern Ontario was still covered in forests,
we wouldn’t have to protect precious large trees from our Canadian
beaver’s prodigious teeth. Time to clip that chicken wire so the
trees can grow and flourish!
- Nest box
clean-out:
if we hadn’t imported European starlings, and cleared 99% of our
forests, there would be lots of natural tree hollows for our native
birds to nest in
- Tree planting:
help create the precious hedgerows warblers and saw-whet owls love,
in the heart of an industrial wasteland
Bring work gloves, plus tools for your preferred task: hand trowels,
wire cutters, spades.
After lunch, local
birder and naturalist Don Docherty will lead a walk around
the nature reserve, enjoying the sights and sounds of spring.
Mark
your calendars for the 2010 Birds, Beavers and Butterflies Nature Festival
We
look forward to seeing you on
Saturday, September 18, 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Stay tuned for details.
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