Young Birder Field Trip: Letchworth State Park with Naturalist Elijah Kruger
This trip is for Rochester Young Birders only Letchworth is [...]
This trip is for Rochester Young Birders only Letchworth is [...]
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Dust off your scopes, because this month we're going on a lakewatch! Join us as we work with local expert Andy Guthrie to find migrating waterfowl, gulls, and passerines at Hamlin Beach State Park.
This month we'll start by taking a walk through Durand Eastman Park. We'll likely see a mix of common winter passerines like woodpeckers, robins, chickadees, titmice, Cedar Waxwings, finches and cardinals, but with a little luck they'll be supplemented by something special.
For 117 years, adults have counted birds every winter as part of the annual Christmas Bird Count, and now it's time for kids to join the fun! The Christmas Bird Count for Kids is a family-friendly bird-watching event that builds bird identification skills and contributes to scientific bird count data.
This month, we'll be meeting the Carey home for an afternoon of fun. The Carey's live on the Ganargua Creek in Farmington, and their backyard is a fantastic woodlot filled with wintering birds.
The weather is always unpredictable in March, so we'll be spending most of our meeting indoors at the home of the Kunz family, who lives right on the lakeshore. We can watch gulls and ducks from their enormous windows, and we can play birding games in the comfort of a warm house.
Ducks are awesome, and lucky for us, they are abundant in Rochester even in the winter. Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes team with mergansers, scaup, scoter, Long-tailed Ducks, Redheads, Common Goldeneye, and more even on the coldest days.