Cool but pleasant weather brought hundreds of people out to celebrate National Wildlife Week at the Jack Miner Migratory Bird Sanctuary all throughout last week.
With activities planned for each day, the event ramped up on the weekend with Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 11-13, offering numerous activities, including an art show and sale, an outdoors-related sale, numerous vendors, children’s crafts and tours of the Miner home and museum. The Canadian Raptor Conservancy was also on-hand to display some of their raptors and put on three very informative shows on Saturday.
The Arts Society of Kingsville was set up with a show and sale in the stadium, and the stadium also hosted a movie night on Friday evening.
On Thursday, April 10, celebratory cupcakes were offered to celebrate Jack Miner’s 160th birthday.
Emmy Sauve of the Harrow 4-H Rabbit Club holds a Himalayan rabbit at the Jack Miner Bird Sanctuary’s Wildlife Week event on Saturday, April 12. The club had a booth at the event, displaying their rabbits and providing educational information on breeding and displaying them.
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Doughty the Harris’s Hawk — the mascot of the Toronto FC soccer club — took time out of his busy schedule to attend Wildlife Week at Jack Miner Bird Sanctuary on Saturday.
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James Cowan of the Canadian Raptor Conservancy stands with Sassy (short for Sasquatch) the 38-year-old Golden Eagle at the Jack Miner Migratory Bird Sanctuary on Satursay, April 12. The conservancy put on three shows on Saturday as part of National Wildlife Week.
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As part of National Wildlife Week, cupcakes were enjoyed by a campfire abutting the Jack Miner Learning Centre on April 10 as an observance of the birthday of one of Canada’s greatest conservationists, Jack Miner. The late Miner was born in 1865 and is credited with creating one of the first bird sanctuaries in North America in 1904. Pictured at the birthday celebration for Jack Miner, on the left, are Sarah Fotheringham and her son Owen McCallum, who also happens to be a 2nd Kingsville Beaver. In the middle is Katie Omstead along with her daughter Emerence. On the far right, is Katie’s husband and Emerence’s dad, Executive Director of the Jack Miner Migratory Bird Foundation Matt Olewski.
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