May 23 - May 24 (Memorial Weekend)
Lady’s Slipper Festival
Saturday & Sunday 10AM-12:00PM
Building Bird Houses.
Let the kids build a bird house while you shop for arts and crafts. The
bird houses may be taken home. There is no charge for the Bird House
project, but we only ask that each attendee bring a food item for the
Food Pantry in exchange for their own bird house to assemble and take
home.
Saturday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Silent Auction.
• Artists selling
their work along the trail and music to enjoy. Activities for all ages.
The Lady’s Slippers are in bloom and summer fun is on it’s
way. Enjoy food, fun and crafts along the trails of the Huron County
Nature Center.
• The gift shop will be open in The Nature Center Building.
Sunday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
• Artists selling their work along the trail and music to enjoy. Bring the family for a beautiful Sunday in nature.
• The gift shop will be open in The Nature Center Building.
2009 Saturday Programs
(There is no charge for these programs. However, donations are accepted.)
May 30 - Saturday
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Hummingbird Program (movie and information) Guest
speakers from area Garden Club on planning a hummingbird garden and
speakers showing how to select and place bird feeders to attract
hummingbirds to your yard. These exciting and beautiful birds are fun
to watch.
June 13 - Saturday
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM : KidWalk Fun Day. Welcome to the trails. Guided tour
of Nature Center with fun activities for Kids of all ages.
June 27 - Saturday
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM : Art In Nature for Kids of all ages Artistic
projects based on the artistry to be found during a walk through the
Nature Center. Hosted by area artists.
July 11 - Saturday
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM : Nature Discovery with Jim McGrath - Program showcases snakes and other reptiles.
July 18 - Saturday
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM: (Tentative depending on sky conditions) Astronomical Society Evening Program at Oak Beach Park.
July 25 - Saturday
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM : Story Time with guest storytellers. “Reading about Nature can be Fun!”
August 1 - Saturday (Please not the time is incorrect in our poster and brochures. The correct time is listed here!)
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM: Nature Discovery with Jim McGrath Jim will
present another exciting program with live creatures found in Michigan.
Always exciting, always fun. Don’t miss either of Jim McGraths
programs.
August 8 - Saturday
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM : Bird Feeders you can build. FREE kits will be
available for building. Learn about feeding birds and build a feeder
you can take home and put in your back yard. (Cost for program is a
food item for Food pantry. “Help to feed a neighbor”)
August 15 - Saturday
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Bats of the World program presented by the
Cranbrook Bat Conservancy. See live bats and learn how important they
are to nature. This is one of our most exciting programs. Don’t
miss seeing the bats!
September 19 - Saturday
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Fall dinner with guest speaker. Great food and an exciting program, all in one evening!
PAST PROGRAMS
For highlights from
this event Follow This
Link!
JULY, 2008
Randy Baker Program on
Michigan
Wildlife
Randy Baker has over 25 years of
experience teaching natural
history and
history to people of all ages. As an
ex-teacher
and as a highly trained
naturalist Randy
understands what it
takes to hold the
attention of viewers that range from
preschool children
to post-graduate
adults. Randy's highly
energetic and
professional style of presenting
scientific and
historical information
has resulted in
his receiving numerous
state wide and
national awards.
Randy has worked with a wide
variety of animals and has taken care of
everything from deer
to eagles and
bobcat to bad tempered turtles. Randy
has at one
time or another caught
everything from
alligators to
rattlesnakes, from
armadillo to tarantulas and pretty much
anything in
between.
It
is his concern
for
quality combined with his 11 years of
university training that produces these
extraordinary
presentations. Randy has
been a favorite of The Huron County
Nature Center for
many years. Come and
enjoy an exciting
program. Information
is from : www.michiganhistorylectures.com
JULY, 2008
Jim McGrath of Nature Discoveries
Salamanders of
Michigan
For
highlights from this event Follow This
Link!
Jim presented a great program for over 30
people. With live Michigan Salamanders
we learned their life
cycle, where we
will find them and why they are often
hard to
find. Every program Jim and
Carol
present is always enjoyed by
both kids
and
adults. Don't miss their next program!
AUGUST, 2008
Jim McGrath of Nature
Discoveries Returns
with more
“Creatures” for the kids to see
and
touch.
The Michigan Wildlife Sampler format calls on
Nature Discovery to choose which
wildlife species to
feature.
Since they are
especially
renowned for their live
reptiles
and amphibians, some of
these are always
incorporated into the
presentation.
They also commonly
choose an insect or
other invertebrate, a bird, a mammal or
a
fish, and possibly a wild plant to
highlig ht.
You never know
what you will encounter when Jim and
Carol McGraff
present their Nature
Discoveries
program. But
what you will
do is enjoy one of our most popular
programs
ever, Have Fun and
Learn!
AUGUST, 2008
"Bats of the
World"
From
Cranbrook
science Center
Learn about and SEE bats. A popular
program for kids and parents
alike!
Step into the world of
bats with a
cultural, geographic perspective. Led by
a bat
researcher from the Organization
for Bat
Conservation, this
exciting multimedia
program features life insectivorous
bats,
vampire bats, and fruit bats with
4-foot
wingspans. Topics
address sound waves,
ecosystems, food webs and conservation.
AUGUST, 2008
Sunset Astronomical Society
presents a Star Gazing program at Oak
Beach Park. This has
been a very popular
program. There will be telescopes set up
and you will "See The Stars" and learn
about the great Huron
County night sky.
Pat Ray, a teacher from Western High
School
in Saginaw will present this
program.
For
more
information
or to join the Sunset Astronomical Society
follow this link:
http://www.sunsetastronomicalsociety.com
All programs At Huron County Nature Center
No admission charge.
Free will donations
welcome!www.huronnaturecenter.org
From 1 p.m. - 5:00
p.m.
Stop in to the Nature Center and
see our new building!
The gift shop will
be
open!
August -
September
Annual Donation Drive:
During
this time period we will be asking
businesses and
individuals to help
support the Nature
Center for the coming
year. Please
consider helping our center by calling a
board
member or emailing: netpromo@avci.net
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