Urquhart Butterfly Garden

Centennial Park, Dundas

Butterfly & Nature Identification Walk

Matthew Mills

Free Workshop Saturday August 28th at 10 am

Our own staff naturalist Matt Mills will guide a Butterfly and Nature Identification walk and tour of the garden. Late summer is an excellent time to view a diversity of butterflies in the Urquhart Butterfly Garden. 

Monarch numbers begin to build as they stage for migration, good numbers of summering species are still on the wing and rare butterflies blown north on summer heat waves are possible. Bird migration begins in earnest in late August so we will watch for movement overhead and new visitors in the garden.

The session is open to all, and you will leave with a new knowledge and understanding of the wonderful diversity of wildlife at the Urquhart Butterfly Garden.  Saturday August 28 at 10 am.

You are requested to bring a chair and wear a hat. We will spend 1 hour in the full sun of the garden. The event will be cancelled in the event of rain.

The Urquhart Butterfly Garden is immediately adjacent to Centennial Park and the Hamilton Air Force Association at 128 King St. E in Dundas.

There is plenty of free parking and the location is easily accessible by public transportation or bicycle.

Funded by the Dougher Fund of the Hamilton Community Foundation

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For more information contact:

Joanna Chapman
jchapman@295.ca
905-627-8917

Up next in our 2021 Education Program Summer Series:

Urquhart Butterfly Garden
Centennial Park, Dundas

Bees & Bugs
Jenna Braun
Free Workshop Saturday August 21st at 10 am

The abundant flowers of the Urquhart Butterfly Garden provide habitat for an
excellent diversity of native bees, wasps and insects.

Jenna Braun, ecologist and entomologist, is full of fascinating facts about the
insect world – a world which many of us overlook. 

Jenna has studied native bees and insects for many years and communicates her
enthusiasm easily. This is an great workshop for kids to see and handle insects up
close and safely.

Join Jenna on Saturday, August 21 at 10 am.

Please bring a chair
On a bus route and lots of free parking
Cancelled in the event of rain

Funded by the Dougher Fund of the Hamilton Community Foundation.

The beautiful sunshine and soaring temperatures of midsummer have arrived and the butterflies have followed. The garden is in full flower and an excellent diversity of species may be seen on sunny days.

A Tawny Emperor – a first for the garden – was photographed last week. Other spectacular species, including Milbert’s Tortoiseshell, are present for the patient visitor.

The photo contest continues through August. Unique photo experiences abound in the height of summer so be sure to seize the opportunity.

We have a free summer education series set to begin August 7 and run until September 11.  Come visit each Saturday morning as local experts teach about wildlife in the garden. A schedule is posted below.