Author Archives: Alan Burger

Nicola Naturalist Society – October 2020 “Nature News”

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Alan Burger

Greetings With the COVID pandemic as restrictive as ever, we are unable to hold our regular monthly meetings. “Nature News“, a sampling of  local nature photos taken by our members, has always been a feature of our evening meetings. So … Continue reading →

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Kane Valley – spring outing 20 June 2020

Posted on June 21, 2020 by Alan Burger

The Nicola Naturalist Society held our first field outing on 20 June in Kane Valley since the beginning of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. It began as a grey drizzly day but despite the damp weather 9 members showed up. Because … Continue reading →

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Nicola Naturalists’ spring 2020 virtual outing – No. 5

Posted on June 16, 2020 by Alan Burger

June 15, 2020.  This might be last in our series of virtual spring outings. With the relaxation of some of the COVID restrictions we are going to try a real outing on Saturday June 20th (members have received an email … Continue reading →

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Nicola Naturalists’ spring 2020 virtual outing – No. 4

Posted on May 27, 2020 by Alan Burger

This is the fourth in our series of virtual spring outings during the 2020 COVID restrictions, with photos by members of the Nicola Naturalist Society. Scroll down to enjoy a bumper crop of interesting spring photos. To see previous editions … Continue reading →

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Nicola Naturalists’ spring 2020 virtual outing – No. 3

Posted on May 15, 2020 by Alan Burger

This is the third of our virtual outings during the COVID-19 pandemic, with spring photos of local wildlife from the members of the Nicola Naturalist Society, based in Merritt, BC. If you missed the first edition of this virtual outing … Continue reading →

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Nicola Naturalists’ spring 2020 virtual outing – No. 2

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Alan Burger

More interesting spring photos from the members of the Nicola Naturalist Society, based in Merritt, BC. If you missed the first edition of this virtual outing – click here More spring arrivals in the Nicola Valley …..   Spring is … Continue reading →

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Nicola Naturalists’ spring 2020 virtual outing – No. 1

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Alan Burger

With the COVID restrictions still in place we are unable to have our usual evening meetings and outdoor outings. So here we have organized a virtual naturalist outing, with members contributing their recent photos of local nature for all to … Continue reading →

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Merritt Christmas Bird Count 2019

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Alan Burger

Good weather and plenty of open water made for a good count on 15 December 2019. This was the 21st Christmas count for the Merritt circle. We had 31 field observers and one feeder-watcher. Our total of 66 species was … Continue reading →

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Nicola Naturalist Society – Winter events 2019/2020

Posted on November 28, 2019 by Alan Burger

UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ALL MEETINGS AND OUTINGS OF THE NICOLA NATURALIST SOCIETY HAVE BEEN CANCELLED BECAUSE OF THE COVID PANDEMIC – HOPE TO SEE YOU ONCE THINGS RETURN TO NORMAL Evening meetings of the Nicola Naturalist Society are held at … Continue reading →

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Nicola Naturalist Society – Fall events 2019

Posted on August 31, 2019 by Alan Burger

Evening meetings of the Nicola Naturalist Society are held at 7PM in the Lecture Theatre of NVIT (Nicola Valley Institute of Technology) on Belshaw Road, Merritt. This fall our meetings will be on the third Wednesday of each month (instead … Continue reading →

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