April 2018
For the Love of Birds
Join Bob Weeden, retired Alaskan biologist, professor, and conservationist, for readings from the huge literature on birds, and a bird walk afterward at the Blackburn Lake Nature Reserve. 2 to 4 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Suggested donation for the talk and walk: $5-$10.
Find out more »June 2018
Art & Nature Fest
The Salt Spring Island Conservancy hosts its second annual Art & Nature Fest at the beautiful Blackburn Lake Nature Reserve — an afternoon of performance, play, and picnics — from 3 to 7 p.m. Festival goers can listen and dance to musical performances by Wesley Hardisty and Andy Meyers, the Ruwadzano Marimba band, Women of Note, and during the community picnic, Lewis Davies. Lorraine Lowry will open and close the fest with her masterful bagpipe playing. Festival goers can take…
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Family Adventures in Nature
At Blackburn Lake Nature Reserve and part of Art & Nature Fest. 3 to 6 p.m.
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An afternoon of performances, play, learning and a picnic at Blackburn Lake Nature Reserve. 3 to 7 p.m. Rescheduled from June 30th rain-out.
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Free program at Blackburn Lake Nature Reserve put on by the Salt Spring Island Conservancy. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Salt Spring Island Conservancy hosts free event for kids ages 6-12 accompanied by an adult. This week's theme is the Great Blue Heron and Western Red-legged Frog. Blackburn Lake Nature Reserve. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Find out more »Beavers: The Ghost Architects of the Salish Sea Landscape
A SSI Conservancy presentation at the Blackburn Lake Nature Reserve. 7 to 8:15 p.m. Suggested $5 to $10 donation.
Find out more »March 2019
Train to be a Butterfly Citizen Scientist
A SSI Conservancy project with Linda Gilkeson. Blackburn Lake Nature Reserve. 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Find out more »The Garry Oak Talk & Walk
A SSI Conservancy event at the Blackburn Lake Nature Reserve from 1 to 2:30 p.m., followed by a walk at the Andreas Vogt Nature Reserve from 3 to 4 p.m
Find out more »April 2019
Sundays on the Nature Reserve
Salt Spring Conservancy offers drop-in activities for kids on Sundays through May. Today's session is The Songsters - Songbirds and Us featuring beak hands-on activity, Madlib scavenger hunt and nest game. For kids ages 6 to 12 with their parents. Blackburn lake Nature Reserve. 1 to 4 p.m.
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Family Adventures in Nature
This Sunday's program is Get the Buzz on Invertebrates. Make bug snacks, observe pond life, and learn about 95 per cent of animals. Blackburn Lake Nature Reserve. Drop-in program for ages 6-12 and adult caregivers. 1 to 4 p.m.
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This Sunday's program is The Bees Knees - How are the Pollinators? Make mason bee homes and have a bee scavenger hunt. Blackburn Lake Nature Reserve. Drop-in program for ages 6-12 and adult caregivers. 1 to 4 p.m.
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This Sunday's program is Where are the Animals? Animal Signs and Tracks. Fortune teller game and animal stories, orienteering at Blackburn Lake Nature Reserve. Drop-in program for ages 6-12 and adult caregivers. 1 to 4 p.m.
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This Sunday's program is The Cedar Tree - The Tree of Life. Clay activity and journalling. Blackburn Lake Nature Reserve. Drop-in program for ages 6-12 and adult caregivers. 1 to 4 p.m.
Find out more »June 2019
SSI Conservancy Annual General Meeting
Annual general meeting at the main building at 265 Blackburn Rd. Come for updates and refreshments. 1:30 to 3 p.m.
Find out more »Book Launch: Love of the Salish Sea Islands
Celebration for new Mother Tongue Publishing book containing new essays, memoirs and poems by 40 island writers. Blackburn Lake Nature Reserve. 4 to 6:30 p.m.
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The Beaver – Coolest Thing in Fur Pants
Family Adventures in Nature Program at the Salt Spring Conservancy's Blackburn Lake Nature Reserve. Plaster casting, journaling, and strolling on the nature reserve looking for signs of beavers. 1 to 4 p.m.
Find out more »The Great Transformation!
A Family Adventures in Nature program offered by the Salt Spring Island Conservancy at the Blackburn Lake Nature Reserve. Make an animal life cycle display, go on a scavenger hunt, make some surprising snacks. 1 to 4 p.m.
Find out more »Birds of Prey
A Family Adventures in Nature program put on by the Salt Spring Island Conservancy at the Blackburn Lake Nature Reserve. Dissect an owl pellet, make a raptor journal and take an observation walk. 1 to 4 p.m.
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