Hornby Island Natural History Centre
Category: Videos
Video: Mount Geoffrey Icicles
Enjoy this magical footage of icicles forming on the cliffs of snowy Mount Geoffrey taken by Julian Laffin of Big Tree Productions.
Read MoreVote for the Vancouver Island Elasmosaur!
Exciting news from the Courtenay and District Museum and Palaeontology Centre! Their elasmosaur, which was discovered in Courtenay, has been shortlisted in a competition to become an official provincial symbol. Click to Here Vote. The voting period will close November 23,…
Read MoreHelliwell Park Bird Walk with Art Martell
About eighty people gathered to catch a glimpse of some of the forest and shoreline birds at Helliwell Park. We sought, listened, and enjoyed their presence under the guidance of Art Martell. Art is an ornithologist and keen birder locally,…
Read MoreOtter-Gate! Sweet Video of River Otter Family
It was earlier in the spring that we noticed we had a new resident living under an out building ..first we smelled her..phew! Then we saw her…a big, lovely otter returning from our pond with duckweed on her back making…
Read MoreBob McDonald Makes Waves at the Community Hall
Bob McDonald of CBC’s Quirks and Quarks recently gave a lively and educational talk at the Hornby Island Community Hall. He was back on the island offering another generous fundraising event for the Natural History Centre. The talk “Gravitational Waves and…
Read MoreClever Corvids: The Northwestern Crow
This month’s featured treasure is our Northwestern crow, pictured above. This species lives along the BC and Alaskan coast, while a similar species, the American Crow, lives in the BC interior. Crows are generalist scavengers, eating marine invertebrates, other bird’s…
Read MoreWeather and Climate Change Experiments
This summer the natural history centre was joined by several excellent environmental speakers. One of these was climatologist Ed Wiebe, a research associate in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at UVic and manager of the Vancouver Island School-Based Weather Station Network. As part…
Read MoreNature Walk – Cedar: Tree of Life (Video)
In this video, the Natural History Centre’s 2015 Summer Coordinator Willow Hunt-Scott discusses the First Peoples practice of mindfully pulling cedar bark. This video was taken on the “Cedar: Tree of Life” nature walk.
Read MoreThe Mighty Mosasaur
Each month this blog will be featuring a natural “treasure of the month”. The featured object for March is a mosasaur fossil that was found on Hornby Island. The mosasaur–an extinct marine mammal whose distant relatives are snakes and monitor lizards such as the Komodo Dragon–was discovered by…
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