2024 Outings
January 27 2024 – Mudpuppies at Mississippi Mills
February 17, 2024 – Birding Arnprior and Environs
March 3, 2024 – Beginner Tree Identification with Erik Pohanka
July 7, 2024 Joint OFNC and MFNC Murphy’s Point Outing with Gillian Mastromatteo and Derek Dunnett
July 15, 2024 Odonates at Morris Island with Art Goldsmith
2023 Outings
November 25 2023 – A Lichen Walk with Dr. Troy McMullin
We j
oined Troy and his two very knowledgeable Grad students on “one of the best field trips ever” to look for lichen on Calabogie mountain. While the hand lenses and cameras were all trained onany species of Macro Lichen, the first trail did not take us to the altitude at which Troy expected to find the rare Pale-bellied Frost Lichen. After a brief lunch and warm up, some of the group continued to a second location where, after a fairly steep climb and a bit of a tromp through some raspberry canes, the lichen was found in its known location.
October 28 2023 – Joint OFNC/MFNC Shagbark Hickory outing with Justin Peter
On a gorgeous fall day, 21 members of MacNamara Field Naturalists’ Club and Ottawa Field Naturalists’ Club joined Ottawa born and raised Justin Peter to seek out a naturally reproducing stand of Shagbark Hickories at the northern fringe of their range. We identified Shagbark and Bitternut Hickories as well as other trees such as the incredibly hard Ironwood tree and a magnificently huge “mother” Oak tree. We learned about how and where these trees reproduce, when to collect a nut and how to tell if it is viable for planting.
While our hunt for the “fabled” stand of Shagbark was unsuccessful, we had an opportunity to see a small family of Red Crossbill birds chowing down at the top of a Pine tree. Thanks again to Justin for his enthusiasm and all the participants from both MFNC and OFNC
2022 Outings
February 19 2022 – Fitzroy Provincial Park with Karen Krueger
June 23 2022 – Natures’ Apprentice Farm Tour
2021 Outings
October 9, 2021 Fungi – High Lonesome NR with Jonathan Mack
October 22, 2021 – Geological Processes at Pinhey’s Point with Jean Dougherty
October 23 2021 – Mosses on the Macnamara Nature Trail with Jennifer Doubt
November 2 2021 – Carp River with Janet Mason
December 9 2021 – Birding by Car Blitz with Michael Runtz
2020 Outings
July 18 2020 – Burnt Lands Provincial Park with Derek Dunnett & Erik Pohanka
August 1, 2020 Morris Island Conservation Area with Derek Dunnett & Erik Pohanka
August 15 2020 – Dragonflies with Owen Ridgen
August 30 2020 – Shaw Woods with Jakob Mueller
September 26, 2020 Trees on the Mac Trail with Dr. Owen Clarkin and Art Goldsmith
October 3 2020 – Mac Trail Fungi with Jonathan Mack and Lynne Ovenden
November 7, 2020 – Basic Tree ID in Gillies Grove, Arnprior
December 27, 2020 – Leafless Trees at High Lonesome with Erik Pohanka
2019 Outings
February 17, 2019 – Fitzroy Park Snowshoe with Karen Krueger
April 16 2019 – Owl Prowl with Michael Runtz
May 12 2019 – Geology of the Cantley Quarry with David Sharpe
May 11 2019 – Birding in Presqu’ile Provincial Park with Doug McRae
May 14 2019 – Spring Ephemerals with Karen Runtz
June 30 2019 Orchids in the White Lake Fen with Michael Runtz
July 6 2019 Evening Birding at the Bill Mason Centre with Art Goldsmith
July 27, 2019 – Birds of the Burnt Lands with Derek Dunnett
August 12, 2019 Ferns on The Macnamara Trail with Lis Allison
August 24, 2019 – Birds and Herps at Stony Swamp with Derek Dunnett & Sophie Roy
October 5 2019 Mushrooming for Beginners with Suzanne Monnon
November 9 2019 – Nature Walk at High Lonesome with Art Goldsmith
2018 Outings
February 2018 – Nature Walk at Spence’s with David Spence
February 2018 Snowshoe and Social in Fitzroy Park with Karen Krueger
March Break Nature Walk on the Macnamara Trail
2018 Annual Owl Prowl with Michael Runtz
April 19, 2018 – MFNC at the Museum of Nature, Collections with Troy McMullin & Lynn Gillespie
May 5, 2018 – Spring Ephemeral Outing with Mary Marsh
June 3, 2018 – Native Tree Walk with Owen Clarkin
June 8, 2018 – Birds on the Mac Trail with Art Goldsmith
June 28 2018 – Orchids in the White Lake Fen with Michael Runtz
August 13, 2018 – Lichens with Dr. Troy McMullin
September 15, 2018 Birding Dunrobin and Constance Bay
October 13 2018 Geology of the Ottawa Region with Dr. Wouter Bleeker
November 18 2018 – Late Fall Birding Around Arnprior with Sophie Roy