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Each year, on a Sunday about the middle of December, many Field Naturalist club members spend a day identifying and counting all birds seen on selected count areas within 15 km of Williams Lake or at home feeders.  The December 2021 count was the 54th annual count and included 39 participants counting outdoors and 16Continue reading “Christmas Bird Count”

Contributed by Loyd Csizmadia. Concerned about the use of pesticides to control grasshoppers, Williams Lake Field Naturalist Anna Roberts approached the ranchers of Becher’s Prairie with an alternative: Mountain Bluebirds. In 1977-78, the Williams Lake Field Naturalists initiated the Becher’s Prairie Resource Management Plan. Funding from the provincial Department of Agriculture paid for the constructionContinue reading “Bluebird Nestbox Project”