Meetings

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2024 Meetings

We back at St. Edmund’s!!

Winter meetings 2pm to 4pm.

Meetings are held on the fourth Thursday of the month at TBA.

The September, October, April, May and June meetings begin at 7 pm (doors open at 6:30pm)

The November, January, February and March 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

Thursday November 28th 2024

Time for our Annual General Meeting!!!

Looking forward to seeing everyone there.

* Back to St. Edmonds *

General Meeting of the Arrowsmith Naturalists

Thursday, doors open 1:30 pm, meeting at 2:00 pm.

St. Edmund’s Church, 407 Wembley Rd., Parksville

ANATS Elected Positions

ANATS Appointed Positions

Thursday Oct. 26th 2024

General Meeting of the Arrowsmith Naturalists

Thursday, 7pm, doors open at 6:30pm.

Speaker: Bonnie Zand

Supporting BC’s Amazing Native Bees

Bonnie Zand is RPBio based out of Comox Valley. She works in the intersections of pollinators and agriculture, running an IPM consulting company and leading the Pollinators in Vancouver Island Agriculture Project. Bonnie is also a board member of the Native Bee Society of BC and is the BC instructor for the Master Melittologist Program. In her free time she plants for native bees, raises goats, garlic and an eight year old on her hobby farm.

Thursday Sept. 26th 2024

* New Venue *

General Meeting of the Arrowsmith Naturalists

Thursday, 7pm, doors open at 6:30pm.

St. Columba Church, 921 Wembley Rd., Parksville

Speaker: Dan Strickland

Dan was the Chief Park Naturalist of Algonquin Provincial in Ontario, a career which he retired in 2000.

As a sideline to his official duties, early in his career Dan began researching the life of the Canada Jay, a.k.a. Whiskeyjack, a study which is now in its 56th year and is one of the longest running studies of a vertebrate anywhere in the world.

After retirement Dan moved west and lives on Vancouver Island where he began a new study of the Canada Jay found in Mt. Washington’s Paradise Meadows, which has been running for 8 years so far. Over the years findings show that there are many differences in Canada Jays in different areas of the country, and now Dan has a team of helpers enabling the study to continue year round.

Dan will be sharing his knowledge about his research on the bird which many of us are familiar when hiking, skiing or snowshoeing in the local mountains. It has been nominated as Canada’s National bird.