Conesus Lake Area Field Trip – Registration Opens Nov. 28
Conesus Lake Area Vitale Park, Big Tree Road, NY, United StatesWe’ll be looking for Tundra Swans, Canvasback, Redhead and other waterfowl.
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Beginner Trip: Nations Road – Registration Opens Nov 29!
Nations Road 2658-2682 Nations Rd, Avon, NY, United StatesSharpen your skills on wintering hawks and Short-eared Owls. Other wintering birds such as Horned Larks, Snow Buntings, and Lapland Longspurs are often present.
December Meeting via Zoom!: Ken Rosenberg – “3 Billion Birds Lost: The Disappearance of North American Birds and What We Can Do About It”
In 2019, a landmark publication in Science documented the loss of 3 billion birds from the North American avifauna over the past 50 years. Lead author Ken Rosenberg will describe the scientific results of this study, the unprecedented attention it received in the media and the public, and efforts over the past year to respond to this loss and bring back the birds.
Rochester Christmas Bird Count – Sunday, December 20th, 2020
Join us for the 121th Christmas Bird Count of the National Audubon Society and the 117th Rochester CBC. If you cannot bird in the field, watch your feeder and phone results to the area leader.
$5.00
Little Lakes Christmas Bird Count – Saturday, December 26th, 2020
This year marks the 121th count nationwide and the 69th count for the area. The count date is Saturday, December 26, 2020. Birds seen during the count week of December 23 to December 29 may be called in to the leaders for inclusion in the tally.
Irondequoit Bay Outlet & Durand Eastman Park – Year List Jump-Start Field Trip ***CANCELLED***
Sandbar Park 302 Lake Road, Webster, NY, United StatesGet started on your annual list! We’ll look for winter waterfowl on the Bay, then move to Durand-Eastman Park where we will stroll Log Cabin Road and Zoo Road looking for finches, waxwings, and resident birds.
Webster Park – Campground Area Field Trip ***CANCELLED***
Webster Park - Campground Area 1034 Lake Road, Webster, NY, United StatesIn mature forest and scrubby areas we'll look for overwintering resident birds, lingering migrants such as Hermit Thrush and special winter visitors such as Evening and Pine Grosbeaks, White-winged and Red Crossbills and Bohemian Waxwings.
Beginner Birder Trip: Mendon Ponds Park Songbird Trail ***CANCELLED***
Mendon Ponds Park 95 Douglas Road, Honeoye Falls, NY, United StatesThis trip will be a leisurely winter walk along rolling trails (approx.1-1/2 miles) featuring some very close looks at our winter passerines!
January Meeting via Zoom!: Laura Erickson – “The Love Lives of Birds”
Laura Erickson will talk about how courtship, mating, and parenting vary wildly among different birds, from the lifelong devotion of American Crows to the dalliances of Eastern Bluebirds, from Bald Eagles’ focus on home improvements to the female Ruby-throated Hummingbird’s Rosie the Riveter’s lifestyle.
Avon and Lima Rural Tour Field Trip – Registration Opens January 16, 2021
Nations Road 2658-2682 Nations Rd, Avon, NY, United StatesWe’ll search the Nations Road area, looking for Northern Shrike, hawks, Snow Bunting, and other birds of the fields and farmland in winter.
Lakeshore Plains West Field Trip – Registration Opens January 24, 2021
Braddock Bay Park 199 East Manitou Road, Greece, NY, United StatesA driving tour of the farm fields and open lands to the west of Rochester, this trip will search for Snow Buntings, Lapland Longspurs, Northern Shrikes, and hawks in the plains and country roads of western Monroe and Orleans Counties.
February Meeting via Zoom!: Allan Strong – “Conserving Grassland Birds in Agricultural Landscapes”
Grassland birds show some of the most dramatic population declines in North America as a result of habitat loss and intensive agricultural management. Allan Strong has studied Bobolinks and Savannah Sparrows in the dairy country of Vermont’s Champlain Valley since 2002.
