Past Explorer Days
Earth Friendly Holiday Event
It’s that time of year again. Join us for piles of earth-friendly holiday crafting and gift-making, snacking and caroling, and good times with friendly faces! All FREE of charge, and great for kids and families.
Wednesday August 24
Tuesday June 14
Saturday May 14th
Hummingbird Banding
Soda Creek
Please RVSP by May 6th
Come and learn about Hummingbird banding with accredited banders Nature Mentors Caren Pritchard and Diane Dunaway. Don’t forget your lunch, water and weather appropiate clothes.
Thursday May 19th
Dog Creek Rd
Meet at 5 pm at Scout Island Nature Centre (SINC) and be back by 7/ 7:30 pm.
Please RVSP by Monday May 16th.
Saturday April 30 2016
Hike to see the Golden Eagles
Meet at 9am at SINC
The Golden Eagle Project was started in February 2014 with the main purpose of compiling information about the Golden Eagle in the Cariboo, focusing on the surroundings of the Fraser and Chilcotin Rivers. Since then, a ground survey based on the observation of the strategic areas for the Golden Eagle (such as cliffs and open and mountainous areas) has been carried out in order to determine current occupancy of the territories.
In this trip, we will hike up to the observation point of one of the surveyed territories and hopefully spot the eagles with our scope. They might be sitting on their nest! We will also learn about the ecology of the Golden Eagle and enjoy the beautiful views of the Fraser River.
We will drive for about 15 min to the trailhead and start hiking up for there. This is a medium-level 3 hike (1.5h hike up and 1h hike down). We will be back to town by 1-2pm.
Sunday April 24th
Saturday March 5
12-2pm
Snow Fun for Families!
Scout Island Nature Center
Join local community astronomers Steve and Lynn Capling at the Scout Island Nature House for stories and stargazing. There will have plenty of stellar stuff to gander at with your naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. If the weather outside is inappropriate for stargazing, the event will be moved indoors with games and activities.
Saturday February 27
12-2pm
Snow Fun for Families!
Scout Island Nature Center
A fun winter walk meets hide and seek using your smartphone. A great outdoor activity any time of year with the secrets of winter success revealed in a day of play and adventure outside, please dress for any weather. A free event hosted by Mary Forbes, a Scout Island Naturalist. Please bring a GPS or smartphone to this event.
12-2pm
Snow Fun for Families!
Scout Island Nature Center
The science and the structure behind the cold white stuff, a day of play and adventure outside, please dress for rolling in the snow. A free event for families with children aged 4-12 hosted by Mary Forbes, a Scout Island Naturalist.
Please Bring something to slide on (e.g.crazy carpet).
Sunday Sept. 27th
River Walk at the Salmon Festival
1 pm
On September 26 and 27 from 10am-4pm, the Salmon Festival will be celebrated in Horsefly. This is a celebration of BC’s River’s Day and the return to Sockeye Salmon to the Horsefly River. It is a free public family event and everybody is welcome!
We don’t want to miss this great opportunity to learn more about the ecology of the salmon and we will have a special River Walk and games just for NatureKids members. Come and join us! Meet at the Scout Island Nature Centre table and don’t forget your gum boots! 🙂
Monday, July 20th, 2015
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Scout Island (Dog Creek Road)
Blue Bird Field Trip
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Dog Creek Rd.
Bluebird Nestbox Monitoring
While checking the houses, we will find eggs and might find some little chicks too! Both Bluebirds and Swallows use these boxes, but we could also have some surprises…squirrels and mice also like this birdhouses for their young! We will be back by 12.00-12.30 to Scout Island.
Sunday April 26th, 2015
1 – 3 PM
Scout Island Nature House
Join local beekeeper Diane Dunaway for a busy day learning all about bees: Honey Bees, Mason Bees, Bumble Bees. It will be the Bees’ Knees! Dress like a bee and play make bee-lieve games. Half the day will be outside observing the local bees and don’t forget the honey bee hive that lives inside the nature house at Scout Island! These amazing insects pollinate so much of the food we eat, if there were no bees half our produce department in the supermarket would be empty! This event is gonna be sweeter than honey.
Scout Island Nature House
AMAZING RAVENS, CROWS & THEIR COUSINS
Family Wolf Day at Scout Island!
Sunday February 15th, 2015
Great Backyard Bird Count!
Cathy Coot, Nature Mentor birding expert will show us how exciting
birding can be and teach us how to find birds! We will learn about bird
identification and the diversity of shape and form for specializing how
they feed and move. We will identify and count birds at the feeders and
also go for a bird walk. We will play some outdoor games and maybe even have
time for a bird craft!