Email: buffalolakenc@gmail.com
Buffalo Lake Nature Club
Caring for Stettler & Surrounding Nature Areas
Since 1973
Celebrating 51 years of nature advocating, educating, learning, and exploring!
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We welcome all interested in nature to our monthly meetings and nature walks.
Events 2018
March 20 - April 10- First Owl count time and date TBA, please email if you are interested
April 11 - May 5- 2nd Owl count, date and time TBA, - please email if you are interested
April 13- 15- Stettler Trade Show- Club Display
April 15 - May 15 -Grouse Count, TBA Date and Time, email if you are interested
April 19- Monthly meeting 7 pm Bradley Peter from Alberta Lake Management Society will present the results of the 2016 water testing of Buffalo Lake
May 6 8 am Waverly Hall Erskine -Important Bird Area Biodiversity Census
May 12 - 1- 2:30 pm West Stettler Park Migratory Bird Awareness Day
May 17- 6pm Meet at Shuckburgh Slough Important Birding Biodiversity Area. Meeting 7:30 pm at St George’s Church
Speakers: Battle River Watershed Alliance “Finding Common Ground” and OTIS Award
May 26 - 27 Spring Species count
June 7 -6 pm The Narrows Lady Slipper walk and paddle.
June 10 - 10am Spring Survey Buffalo Lake Conservation Area, west of Ol’ MacDonalds Resort
June 21- 6 pm Rochon Sands Provincial Park year-end potluck dinner Indigenous Peoples’ Day
July 8 -10am Butterfly Count - Dry Island Buffalo Jump upper parking lot Meet with Dr. Charley Bird and other Lepidopterists to learn how to safely catch and identify butterflies.
TBA Potter’s Seep walk
August 12 -5:30pm Supper at Claudia’s 6:30 - 8 pm walk of Alix Lake Nature Trail west side
TBA August Fall Survey Buffalo Lake Conservation Area
September 9 - noon Big Knife Provincial Park. Bring your lunch and walk
September 20-7pm Monthly meeting Speaker Susanne Maidment
Banding Birds: Hummingbirds to Owls
TBA -September IBA Fall survey
TBA October - Linear Trail Nest Box clean out
October 18 - 7 pm Monthly Meeting Speaker Karin Lindquist : Native Range Plants of Stettler Area and How to Identify Them
November 15 - 7pm Monthly Meeting speaker TBA
December 16 -1pm Stettler Christmas Bird Count - 5pm Potluck Dinner at St. George's Church Everyone welcome
December 23 -1 pm Buffalo Lake Bird Count
December 30 1pm Red Deer River Bird Count