Events Calendar
List of all upcoming Field Trips and Evening Programs
Sep 2025
Birds, Flowers & Butterflies Walk along Yew Lake Trail
07/Sep/2025 at 7:00 am - 11:00 amLeaders: Angela Hansen, Neill Vanhinsberg, and Joanna Chin Birds should be migrating through and foraging in mixed flocks, insectivorous species may be more active. Plants will be in full fruiting splendor, with some…
Landscape As Muse
07/Sep/2025 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pmLocation: Pacific Spirit Regional Park Organizers: Jean-Michel Besquet and Niamh McCandless This Field Trip is immersive in the contemplation of Nature using media and art as spiritual guides. It involves painting, drawing, the…
Nature Vancouver Monthly Board Meeting
09/Sep/2025 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmThe Nature Vancouver Board meets on the first Tuesday of every month except August. The September meeting was delayed by one week due to the Labour Day holiday. The purpose of the board…
Nudibranchs - Dr. Sara Ellison
11/Sep/2025 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmDr. Sara Ellison returns with a talk on nudibranchs. She previously gave us a wonderful talk in 2023 on Snorkeling Adventures Around Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands Sara Ellison received her PhD…
Birding Jericho Beach Park
12/Sep/2025 at 7:30 am - 10:00 amJoin trip leader Christine Balkwill for a quiet morning bird walk through Jericho Beach Park. Jericho has a variety of habitats creating the potential to observe a good range of species. We’ll check…
Bird Walk at Terra Nova September 13, 8 am
13/Sep/2025 at 8:00 am - 10:30 amJoin trip leaders Ly Hoang and Neill Vanhinsberg for a morning birding field trip to Terra Nova Natural Area in Richmond. We will explore a mixture of habitats (hedgerows, small wood areas, marsh,…
Mushroom diversity and the significance of fossil mushrooms - Ludo le Renard
18/Sep/2025 at 7:30 pm - 9:30 pmDr. Ludo le Renard, a postdoctoral researcher in the Berbee Lab at the UBC Biodiversity Research Centre, says: Mushrooms are very diverse and difficult to identify using morphology. To make it worse, the…
Hawk Watch Sit at Cypress Park - This event is part of the Welcome Walk series
21/Sep/2025 at 1:00 am - 4:00 amDate: Sunday September 21, 1:00-4:00 pm Accessibility Description: This location is an open grassy area with picnic tables scattered around the perimeter and in the middle. The distance is approximately 100 meters from…
Cheam Wetlands Trip (Register by Sept 6)
25/Sep/2025 at 8:00 am - 4:00 pmFernando and Paulina Selles of Chilliwack Naturalists, have once again offered to be our tour guides. Birding, Western Red Turtles and the geology of this area will be explored. Bus chartered from Enjoy the…
Living with Coyotes: How we can improve our relationship with our wild neighbours
25/Sep/2025 at 7:30 pm - 9:30 pmNo animal species has received more publicity in Vancouver since 2020 than coyotes. From the attacks on humans in Stanley Park in 2020-2021 to the recent viral footage showing coyote pups in a…