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05 Mar 2020

Enjoy A Spring Day At The Beach – Pinery Provincial Park

Blog, Natural Areasbeach, nature, Pinery, Pinery Provincial Park, relax, spring, video, waves

The Pinery Provincial Park is located along the shores of Lake Huron in Lambton County. The park features a variety of trails that takes hikers through diverse habitats including Oak Savannas and Coastal Dune Ecosystems. Naturalists can find over 800 vascular plants throughout the park and over 300 bird species have been spotted throughout the year! The park offers a large number of campsites and roofed accommodations, comfort stations, a park store, a pet exercise area (beach), picnic shelters and a Visitor Centre. Visitors can also rent bikes, canoes, paddle boats and kayaks to either explore the Old Ausable Channel…

25 Apr 2017

By Lambton Wildlife Inc

Pelee Island Camping Trip Photos 2016 Part 2

Blog, Outdoor Eventbirding, LWI Camping Trip, nature, pelee island, Photography

I hope you enjoyed my earlier post about Pelee Island. This latest post focuses on bird photos. As you may know, thousands of birds migrate through this area every spring. Pelee Island is a stopover for many interesting species, and attracts avid birders. Having access to some very experienced and knowledgeable LWI birders who attend this event makes the trip especially worthwhile. For some competitive birders, Pelee Island offers the annual Botham Cup. This event is a bird “race” taking place over a 24 hour period from Friday noon until Saturday noon. Teams try and sight as many bird species…

18 Apr 2017

By Lambton Wildlife Inc

Pelee Island Camping Trip Photos 2016 Part 1

Blog, Outdoor Eventbirding, LWI Camping Trip, nature, pelee island, Photography, Snakes, Turtles

Every spring for many years now, LWI holds a group camping outing on Pelee Island. 2016 was the first year for myself and Roberta attending. Pelee Island is an easy 1 hour and 30 minute ferry ride from Leamington. The campground is located only a few kilometers from the ferry dock and is well situated for making forays to the various corners of the island. By late Thursday the LWI group camping site was well populated with tents, dining shelters, pop-up camper vans and one truck camper. Some members come as early as Tuesday, with most departing back to the…

07 Dec 2016

By Lambton Wildlife Inc

Lambton Wildlife Accomplishments: A 50 Year Review

Historicalhabitat, history, Lambton Field Naturalists, Lambton Wildlife, land trust, Larry Cornelis, nature, protection, wildlife

The following speech was given by Larry Cornelis, Board Member and Head of the Outdoor Committee for Lambton Wildlife, at the recent 50th Anniversary event held at the Sarnia Public Library Theatre. Larry is also a past President. It's with great pleasure and pride that we share on overview of the accomplishments and achievements of Lambton Wildlife since the clubs inception in 1966. (more…)