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BORELIANS AUDITIONS 7:30 p.m., sharp, Town Hall 1873. Call 985- y, June Dt . hsieal6= A -- ------_----. H 30 Tuesday The BIA presents Check out the ad week's Citizen. with all kinds of bargoons, downtown Port Perry. TOPS FLY YOUR BIRTHDAY CAKE! Take Off Pounds FLAG! The Scugog Citizen is Sensibly meets Come on, Scugog! celebrating its first birth- Centre,7:30 p.m. For Tuesday nights, 7 to 8 I's Canada's day, and you're invited 0 info., call 986-5503. p.m. cal 985-9827. 125th! Show you drop by the office at 36 GARDEN PARTY ONE PARENT love the land -- fly Water St, 1 p.m. to § p.m. Janetville United Oshawa Chapter One your flag! Phone (or until the cake runs out!) }{ Church Garden Party, Parent Families us at 986-5335, and enjoy free coffec and [| 4:30 p.m. until all are Association meets 8 986-5599, 986- i cake. served. Adults $6 (6-12), p.m. at Simcoe Hall 5192 10 help your MOONLIGHT children $3, pre-school- Call 436-5089 ward win! MADNESS ers free. a sale in this 1 Wednesday 5 Sunday LIBERAL SCUGOG CITIZEN HAPPY 125TH CRUISIN' MEETING FIRST ANNIVERSARY ISSUE | BIRTHDAY, CLASSICS | Monthly meet- || Hooray, we're one today! . CANADA! Car show at Scugog 1{ ing of Durham TOPS } Celebrations abound in Scugog 8 am. to 1 p.m. Shores Museum, 11 1 Federal Liberal Take Off Pounds Sensibly meets | Township, as we take time to | Vendors welcome, call am. 04 p.m. Bring Assoc. 8p.m. at [|| Tuesday nights, 7 10 8 p.m. Call 985- || mark Canada's 125th birthday. | | 985-8044. non-perishable food | the Corinthian || 9827. | There's entertainment and fire- Official of the Year ALCOHOL and help Operation 4 Club Hall in ONE PARENT "| works at Palmer Park in Port |] Doug Scott will be PROBLEMS? Scugog's food drive! | Columbus. Oshawa Chapter One Parent Families | Perry, the big annual bash host- |: honoured at an Awards Topic: Association meets at 8 p.m. at Simcoe ed by the Scugog Chamber of |:/{ Banquet, 6 p.m. at Simplified tax Hall Settlement House, 387 Simcoe St. Commerce. Don't miss it! Stables At Greystone. sysiem. South, Oshawa. Guest speaker, Keith Tickets $20 available O'Meara, will discuss male/female rela- at Citizen office. Call 8 tionships. For info, call 436-5089. _ 985-NEWS. -- J STRAWBERRY SUPPER i] At Blackstock United Church, from 5 p.m. Tickets at the door, $7.50 adults, $3.50 children, pre-schoolers free. FARMER'S MARKET Port Perry Fairgrounds, 8am. to 1 pm. Vendors welcome, call 985-8044. FIREWORKS Caesarea Fireworks for Canada's birth- day at Community Hall, 7 p.m. $5 per family. Bring lawn chairs! CANADA 125 CELEBRATION Epsom & Utica Parade: 1 p.m., sports- at Epsom School | 2:30 p.m., Strawberry social at Utica Hall 6:30 p.m. For info: call 985-9205 | or 852-7793. SERVICE Epsom Church, 11 a.m, tree planting for Canada 125. STRAWBERRY SUPPER Scugog Island United Church, § p.m. and 6:15 p.m. Adults $10, children under 12 $4. Pre- hoolers free. For tickets call Dennis Sims, 985-2255. My favourite birds, after the birds of prey, are wood warblers. There are 57 different species of these' birds found in North America, 35 of which nest here in Ontario. calls from the sky. At one time | used to travel to Point Pelee to observe the war- blers. These days, because bird watching is so popular this area has become finches larger. Here in Durham Region, we are fortunate to have 18 of the 35 species nest- ing. Warblers are tiny, brightly coloured birds, smaller than a sparrow. Here are a few things to watch for when identifying war- blers (it helps to have your Bird Guide handy, too) 1/ Fast movement. They flit from limb to limb, often very high in the trees. 2/ Slender-and sharp-pointed bills, 3/ Males and females in their adult breeding plummage are usu- ally different colours. 4/ They don't always "warble." Some songs are quite musical, helping with identification. Migration is largely nocturnal. 5/ Long journeys over land and sea-expose them to many perils such as striking lighthouses or other tall structures, often with fatal results. The song of the warbler is sel- dom heard from the night sky dur- ing the spring migration, but on a calm, quiet night in late August \Jo! can hear their cricket-like alternative for people to- day is to travel to Rondeau Provincial Park, Long Point Provincial Park or closer to home, Presquille Park near Brighton. This year I was in the field in carly May to "Warbler watch" as I have done for some 30 years. The wonderment at seeing these beau- tiful birds in spring plummage is always a thrill for me. You know also there is always the chance you may see a rare species which has been blown up from the south, birds such as the Kentucky or Worm Eating Warbler, or perhaps the rare Kirtlands Warbler, found only in Who is a Warbler Watcher? He/she is any person you encounter on the path, binoculars around the neck, bird book in the (Wood Warblers -- the butterflies of the bird world Some will wonder why people become excited about watching warblers. It is, perhaps, the thrill of the chase, the thought that you springtime woods to 'observe all facets of nature. For the ardent Warbler Watcher, I think the ultimate experience would be to see a Black Poll warbler in Thickson Wood, then travel north to Churchill, Man. to observe this same bird on its nesting grounds, then finally back to Thickson Wood in late August to observe its full migration. All that would be left to observe is its winter habitat somewhere in South Ameri erica. . I am sure that given the oppor- tunity, most of us would be delighted to complete the year with a few weeks of "warbler watching" in the southern half of the continent. 1 know I would. The Naturalist Club had a hand, bli 8 about cheek patches and wing bars. It is not my intention to make fun of warbler watchers. You may find me on the path, leafing through the bird guide, mumbling away to myself. spring outing on May 9 with 12 bers in 4, ighting 52 species of birds. Another outing is scheduled for June 25 at 6:30 PM, and we'll meet at the Port Perry High School on Rosa Street.» The first meeting in the fall tos have appeared in numerous publications. A resident of will be at my home, September 17 at 7:30 PM. (Ken Carmichael is a devoted Scugog Township, his column naturalist, bird watcher and appears on a regular basis in the wildlife photographer whose pho- Scugog Citizen) The Wood Warbler. J SQUARE BOY. -. 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