Backlands Spring Migration – Golden Eagle
In our continuing series featuring birds sighted in the Backlands, we focus today on a major bird of prey: the Golden Eagle.
Chronicle-Herald: Dartmouth MLAs say Step up, take care of lakes
Dartmouth MLAs call for Environment Department to ‘step up, take care’ of lakes: ‘The MLAs would like to see an urban lake commission or agency, with representation from all three levels of government, advocates, community groups and residents, struck to act as a “central clearinghouse of responsibility and expertise,” ‘ (photo: Tim Krochak)
WLCC Newsletter 2021 Available for Download
Our 2021 annual Newsletter is now available! It includes updates on the dam & water level issues, land rezoning that would affect the watershed, and an invitation for members and volunteers.
Backlands Spring Migration: Black-backed Woodpecker
This inky black bird with a sharp white stripe on his face is “nearly synonymous” with periodically burned forests like the Backlands, where it feasts on big, juicy wood-boring beetle larvae.
Canadian Lakes Loon Survey
If you regularly visit a Canadian lake, you too can be a Citizen Scientist. Canadian Lakes Loon Survey participants have worked since 1981 to track Common Loon breeding by monitoring chick hatch and survival. Participants dedicate at least three days, visiting their lake once in June (to see if loon pairs are on territory), once in July (to see if chicks hatch), and once in August (to see if chicks survive long enough to fledge). [Photo: Robin Whyte]