Bauers Farm Road

Bauers Farm Road Bauers Farm Road, Edgemere, MD, United States

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader Tim Carney, timmyc83@gmail.com Description: Join us for a chance to see woodcocks performing their flight displays as they enter breeding season. Though generally secretive and elusive birds, they have been reliable here during late winter in recent years, and this is probably the easiest spot to see them. You don’t […]

Hydes Road Park

Hydes Road Park 5563 Hydes Road, Hydes, MD, United States

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader Brian Rollfinke brollfinke@gmail.com Description: Hydes Road Park is a 44-acre athletic field in Glen Arm. Three sides of the park are bordered with reforestation habitat. Beavers recently dammed the creek in the southwest corner of the park, creating a wetland that attracted several species of aquatic birds that were new […]

BBC Board Meeting

Virtual

While only authorized board members have a vote, any club member is welcome to attend and participate in discussions. Contact any club officer or board member for details.

Howard County Conservancy

Mt. Pleasant Farm 10520 Old Frederick Rd, Woodstock, MD, United States

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader Bonnie Ott, SparrowDamsel@gmail.com Description: Over a dozen varieties of sparrows may be here this time of year including American Tree Sparrow and Fox Sparrow. Lincoln’s Sparrow might be spotted in migration. Also, many types of Woodpeckers can be seen. Wild Turkey and American Kestrel are here year- round as well. […]

Family Birding: Coppermine Fieldhouse

Coppermine Fieldhouse 1400 Coppermine Terrace, Baltimore, MD, United States

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader Daisy Sudano, dsudanotrainings@yahoo.com Description: St Patrick’s Day Bird Hike and Green Treasure Hunt. We will meet at 1400 Coppermine Terrace. Come see if we can find any Leprechauns and their feathered friends roaming the forest of Coppermine. Maybe they left some treasure for us to find. RSVP Required.

Habitat Tour: Masonville Cove

Masonville Cove Environmental Education Center 1000 Frankfurst Ave, Baltimore, MD, United States

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader Colleen McMullen and Tim Carney of MES, tcarney@menv.com Description: Masonville Cove is a 52-acre restoration site in Curtis Bay and has also been designated as the nation’s first Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnership. In addition to pointing out the wide variety of birds here, we’ll also be interpreting the various restoration […]

Fort McHenry

Fort McHenry 2400 E Fort Ave, Baltimore, MD, United States

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader: Mary Chetelat, 443-564-6551. Description: Continuing survey of bird activity at the Fort. Binoculars required. A telescope can be useful for distance viewing. Canceled in bad weather and walk will be rescheduled to May 8. General grounds include the paved Seawall Trail. Meet in the large grassy unpaved roped off parking […]

Birding by Boat: Jug Bay

Patuxent River Park – Jug Bay Natural Area 16000 Croom Airport Rd, Upper Marlboro, MD, United States

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader: Alex Pellegrini, agpell.work@gmail.com. Description: Discover the beauty of Jug Bay and its unique wild rice marshes! Join us aboard our Pontoon boat to explore areas you can’t reach on foot. You will gain insights into the decades of research at Jug Bay and if luck is on your side, you […]

Urban Birding in Green Oasis

Patterson Park 27 South Patterson Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD, United States

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader: Brian Rollfinke with Wild Birds Unlimited, brollfinke.wbutimonium@gmail.com or 410-561-1215. Description: Baltimore’s version of Central Park is a migrant magnet, and there’s no better time to visit than early May. When northbound travelers fly up the Patapsco, the first–and practically the only–green space they find is Patterson Park. Weary from a […]

Explore Days Cove by Canoe!

Days Cove 6259 Days Cove Rd, White Marsh, MD, United States

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader: Sam Tillman, sam.tillman@gmail.com. Description: There is nothing like the experience of birding by boat and slipping into the natural habitat. Usually closed to the public, Days Cove sits at the confluence of the Big and Little Gunpowder Falls, which form the only true delta in Baltimore County. The habitat is […]

Lake Roland

Lake Roland Park 1000 Lakeside Drive, Baltimore, MD

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader: John Landers, dado1bw@aol.com. Description: Continuing series of weekly walks following the progress of spring migration in Lake Roland’s varied habitats. Meet at the Light Rail Parking Lot (Boardwalk entrance to the park). Check with leader if weather is extreme (rain, wind).

Meeting: Baltimore Bird Club

Greenhouse Classroom, Cylburn Arboretum 4915 Greenspring Avenue, Baltimore, MD, United States

Around the World Filming Birds by Marty Brazeau. Marty Brazeau, Education and Outreach Specialist, will educate us on atypical birds from countries such as Australia, Costa Rica and Ecuador using high definition videos shot by the speaker himself. We will examine their characteristics and behaviors as well as the effects of geography and plate tectonics […]

Orioles at Cromwell Valley Park

Cromwell Valley Park 2175 Cromwell Bridge Road, Parkville, MD

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader: Mark Linardi, mlinardi@outlook.com or 443-834-8413. Description: Cromwell in early May is an excellent place to see/hear Baltimore and Orchard Orioles. 10+ Baltimore Orioles very possible. Meet at the Willow Grove parking lot.

Enoch Pratt Central Branch

Enoch Pratt Free Library Central Branch 400 Cathedral St, Baltimore, MD, United States

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader: Joe Corcoran, corcoran2921@gmail.com. Description: Join us for this Beginner’s Urban Birding Walk to nearby Mt. Vernon Place and the Washington Monument led by experts from the Baltimore Bird Club. During this two-hour program, participants will partake in an easy walk of 1/2 to 2 miles on level ground. Participants will […]

Turkey Hill

Turkey Hill site MD, United States

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader: Matthew Black and Anand Pandian, Description: This large, currently abandoned area in Curtis Bay is relatively unexplored on eBird and is being evaluated by the community for development into a city park: it has a diverse range of habitat and relatively well-maintained trails. Wild Turkeys are resident, and it is […]

Marshy Point Nature Center

Marshy Point Nature Center 7130 Marshy Point Rd, Baltimore, MD, United States

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader: Brent and Mary Byers, baypuffin@hotmail.com or 410-686-7294. Description: Easy half-day walk through varied habitats for feeder birds and other songbirds, raptors, and waterfowl. All are welcome, including families. Telescopes useful.

Mother’s Day Birding at Cromwell Valley

Cromwell Valley Park 2175 Cromwell Bridge Road, Parkville, MD

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader: Brian Rollfinke with Wild Birds Unlimited, brollfinke.wbutimonium@gmail.com or 410-561-1215. Description: Celebrate Mom by taking her on a guided bird walk! This weekend will mark the peak of spring migration, and the trails of Cromwell Valley Park will be teeming with songbirds. The tall sycamores and tulip poplars along Minebank Run […]

Lake Roland

Lake Roland Park 1000 Lakeside Drive, Baltimore, MD

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader: Ron Davis, ronldavis1963@gmail.com. Description: Continuing series of weekly walks following the progress of spring migration in Lake Roland’s varied habitats. Meet at the Light Rail Parking Lot (Boardwalk entrance to the park). Check with leader if weather is extreme (rain, wind).

Fort McHenry

Fort McHenry 2400 E Fort Ave, Baltimore, MD, United States

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader: Wendy Alexander, 443-204-3754. Description: Continuing survey of bird activity at the Fort. Binoculars required. A telescope can be useful for distance viewing. Canceled in bad weather and walk will be rescheduled to May 8. General grounds include the paved Seawall Trail. Meet in the large grassy unpaved roped off parking […]