On Friday, September 6, Leah Ramsay, Program Zoologist with the BC Conservation Data Centre, came to Metchosin to do a talk on dragonflies and damselflies.
To thank Leah for making the trek to Metchosin to do the talk, Metchosin artist Kathy Saluke gave Leah a print of one of her fabric art pieces on dragonflies.
Our first Metchosin Talk/Walk for the 2019/2020 season is coming up on Friday, Sept 6, 2019, 7:00 pm, at the District of Metchosin Council Chambers. Join us to hear CDC’s Leah Ramsay talk about “Damsels and Warriors: the Dragonflies of BC.”
On Saturday, Sept 7, 10 am, Leah will join us to net and identify a few dragonflies. Metchosin location to be announced.
Next Talk and Walk: Oct 4: Metchosin’s own Anna Hall on Dolphins.
The event began with a walk. At 2:00 pm a large group met at Tower Point. Syd helped us to identify some of our local bumblebees.
A yellow-faced bumblebee (Bombus vosnesenskii, dead) that someone brought along for Syd to look at.
The view from the area of Tower Point where we looked at local bumblebees.
At 7:00 pm Syd gave an amazing talk on bumblebees to an attentive audience.
A verse reflection on Syd’s visit by one of the attendees:
There are strange things done ‘neath the midnight sun
By the men who search for bees
The bumblebees in the northern breeze
Bring an entomologist to his knees
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
but the queerest they ever did see
Was that night in Metchosin, for all of those in
Council Chambers, for Syd’s talk, brilliantly.
