This spring the Young Naturalists Club was thrilled to partner with Nature Canada on several events including Nature New Brunswick and Nature Nova Scotia’s Festival […]
February Post for Berwick – Trees in the Acadian Forest
The Future Forest: Young Naturalists in the Acadian Forest of Berwick Into the deep snow went 15 snow shoed Young Naturalists on a sunny February […]
Animal Tracks and Signs- Berwick YNC Post from January 24th
The Berwick YNC headed out into the woods to look for animal tracks and signs on January 24th 2015. Just before we set out on […]
Berwick YNC 2014 Winter Solstice Bird Count
The day was cloudy and zero degrees in the morning on December 21 2014 and the Berwick YNC went out to count birds for the annual Solstice (Christmas) Bird […]
Christmas Bird Count at Point Pleasant Park
Thank you to all the “citizen scientists” who participated in the Christmas Bird Count, and fed chickadees. Here are our results: Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, […]
The not-so-secret life of beavers
There are definitely beavers at the McDonald Sports Park in Waverly! First, we pretended to be beavers (and coyotes) as part of a predator-prey game […]
Mushroom ID
The Berwick Young Naturalists went mushrooming in the Kentville Ravine on a beautiful Saturday morning with Ken Harrison Jr. and Bill Shaw. We had 30 people […]
Nature around Berwick
On the 20th of September we explored the multi-use railway-bed trail to the west of Berwick. It was a beautiful brisk late summer day and we had […]
Wood Turtle Monitoring Project with CARP
The Berwick and the Annapolis YNC Chapters joined Sarah Walton, a biologist from the Clean Annapolis River Project Wood Turtle Monitoring Project. Although we spent […]
Tree Swallow Nest Box Launch with BNS – Sept 13th 2014
The Berwick and Annapolis Valley Chapters teamed up with the Blomidon Naturalist Society to build and launch nest boxes for Tree Swallows. Above are some […]