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August
is a Fun Family Month at Midland Ontario’s Wye Marsh Wildlife
Centre
Midland,
Ontario – July 2006 – The month of August at the Wye Marsh will
offer many events and activites for family recreation and learning
opportunities. Many of the feautured recreational events include
daly canoe excursions, birds of prey shows, and marsh eco tours.
The Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre provides
one of the best valued family day trip outings in the Southern
Georgian Bay area of Ontario. Daily
Canoe Excursions
Take a
canoe trip and pretend you are a ‘voyageur’ travelling through the Marsh on
your way to Georgian Bay. 45 minutes exursions with a trained guide and naturalist
depart throughout the day. Life jackets included. Birds
of Prey Shows
The new
Birds of Prey show is attracting many visitors, all whom have enjoyed a great
show. Matt Lieberknecht flies a Red Tailed Hawk, a Harris Hawk, a Barn Owl
and a Turkey Vulture every Sunday at 1:00 pm. In addition, Matt has brought
baby Harris Hawks, a baby Peregrine falcon and an Eagle Owl for the shows.
 
Guided
Canoe Eco Tours with Wye Marsh Naturalist
The Wye
Marsh is offering you an opportunity to go where few have gone before with
our most exciting new program – ECO-TOURS. One of our qualified and knowledgeable
stewardship research staff will lead you on a three hour canoe experience deep
into the most inaccessible areas of the 3600 acre Wye Marsh. This adventure
will bring you face to face with wetland creatures from Beavers to Frogs, Cranes
to a Heron Rookery, and of course, a personal look at our Famous Trumpeter
Swans.
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Visitors Meet the
Wild & Wonderful Wetlands of Wye Marsh
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The
Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre is located in Midland Ontario on the edge
of Georgian Bay just 90 minutes north of Toronto. The Wye River
meanders
through the beautiful Wye Valley before reaching Georgian Bay
and was a major canoe
route for the Hurons First Nations and the Voyageurs as they navigated
the water transportation routes since the early 1600’s.
More
event information can be found in the Wye
Marsh Event Calendar.
For
more information contact Laurie
Schutt at 705-526-3294.
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