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  • Hamlin Beach State Park Field Trip

    Hamlin Beach State Park 1 Camp Hill Road, Hamlin, NY, United States

    Starting at Hamlin Beach State Park we will be looking for migrating waterfowl. We will move to Braddock Bay Hawk Watch in hopes of spotting Rough-legged and Red-shouldered Hawk and eagles.

  • Lake Shore Marshes East Wildlife Management Area Field Trip

    Lakeshore Marshes East Wildlife Management Area Broadway Road, North Wolcott, NY, United States

    This extensive driving tour of the large natural area to our northeast always turns up some great birds! We’ll look for unusual ducks, late winter birds, and interesting migrants like Fox Sparrow.

  • March RBA – Young Birder Event – Sunday, March 18, 2018

    Private Home Call Andrea Patterson (Cell 585-490-5361) for the address, Rochester, NY, United States

    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.

  • Beginner Birder Trip: Owl Woods & Hawk Watch Site

    Owl Woods 349 Manitou Beach Road, Rochester, NY, United States

    We’ll look primarily for our smallest visiting owl, the Northern Saw-whet, which returns to this spot on a yearly basis. Long-eared Owl generally put in an appearance, too, although they’re quite shy and great at hiding.

  • April: Fred Stoss – “Climate Change: Is It All for the Birds, or What?”

    The Clover Center of the Arts and Spirituality/The Baptist Temple 1101 Clover Street, Rochester, NY, United States

    Climate Change: Is It All for the Birds, or What? Come find out at the RBA monthly meeting on Thursday, April 12 at 7:00 pm at the Clover Center. Fred Stoss, a local scientist and librarian with more than 35 years of experience in dealing with issues of climate change, and who trained under Al Gore’s “The Climate Project” will present.

  • Owl Woods (“Pear Orchard”) Woodcock Courtship Flight Field Trip

    Owl Woods 349 Manitou Beach Road, Rochester, NY, United States

    This will be an evening trip for woodcock courtship flight. If you’ve never seen this spectacle, prepare to be amazed: birds call noisily from the ground in grassy fields before spiraling rapidly up high, descending back down in a zig-zagging noisy frenzy only to start the cycle anew.

  • Trails at High Acres Nature Area (Perinton Ponds Area) Field Trip

    High Acres Nature Area (HANA) 425 Perinton Parkway, Fairport, NY, United States

    Over 130 bird species have been observed at HANA including more than 70 that nest in the diverse habitats found there. During this field trip we expect to see at least 40 species returning to nest or on their way to northern nesting grounds.

  • Braddock Bay Hawk Lookout Field Trip

    Braddock Bay Park 199 East Manitou Road, Greece, NY, United States

    This trip is for the spring hawk flight and migrating songbirds. This is a joint trip with the Buffalo Ornithological Society.

  • Highland Park Field Trip

    Highland Park Reservoir Avenue, Rochester, NY, United States

    We'll be looking for spring migrants and lovely flora. This walk would be gorgeous even without the birds, but it does have birds in abundance!

  • Beginner Birder Trip: Lakeshore Warbler Hotspots

    Lakeshore Warbler Hotspots 30 Long Pond Road, Greece, NY, United States

    Learn the basics of identifying our most colorful migrants on this trip, which will stop at several areas where these birds tend to congregate in spring.