Meetings
Let’s Get Together
2025 Meetings
All meetings are at St. Edmund’s
From 2pm to 4pm.
Meetings are held on the fourth Thursday of the month.
The meetings begin at 2 pm (doors open at 1:30pm)
There is no meeting in December, but we hold a potluck on Christmas Bird Count Sunday.
There are no meetings in July and August, but we enjoy at least one picnic at Rathtrevor Park.
We respectfully acknowledge that we are meeting within the unceded traditional territories of the Snaw-naw-as people and the Qualicum First Nation, the traditional keepers of these lands.
Today, many First Nations and Métis peoples continue to live, work and play here as do we. We intend to nurture better understanding and pursue opportunities for collaboration with our First Nations neighbours.
Arrowsmith Naturalists Members Meeting
Last meeting until September. June 26th
Our speaker for June is Graham Beard, our local well-known fossil expert. He won’t be showing slides, he gives great talks and brings lots of hands-on material for people to look at.
Graham teaches at Eldercollege, and is one of the most popular instructors there. All the fossils in the QB Museum came from Graham’s collection, and he is widely recognised as an expert by Paleontologists far and wide. He also runs a small local Paleontology group that meets on the last Sunday of the month during the winter, where he gives talks on all aspects of fossils, history, geology, you name it, his fossil background is as deep as it is wide.
Thursday May 22nd 2025
2pm-4pm doors open at 1:30
“The Old Man and the Vultures”
Dave Manning, nature writer, photographer and long-time
birder, fell in love with Vultures at age 65 when he stumbled
upon a small Turkey Vulture chick peeking out of its nest cave.
His program is about the 3 Vultures of North America, with
special emphasis on a Turkey Vulture nest site he observed from
mating to migration.
Singer/writer, Eroca Dancer, will add a
musical touch to the show. Dave’s best selling Turkey Vulture
book will be available.
Meetings of interest
Arrowsmith Naturalists
Mailing Address
Box 1542
Parksville, B.C.
V9P 2H4
Parksville, B.C.
V9P 2H4
