Host: Carroll County Bird Club Contact Bob Ringler, ringler.bob@gmail.com Description: The Center is located 15 minutes from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. It is an excellent place to see the Chesapeake’s wintering assortment of waterfowl. With the variety of habitats at the Center, though, we can expect to see many other kinds […]
Host: Carroll County Bird Club Contact CK McAuliffe at cjhome23@gmail.com Description: Speaker: Martin Brazeau, academic advisor at the Community College of Baltimore County, avid bird videographer, and MD/DC BBA3 atlaser. Marty will share with us wonderful high-def videos of birds in Australia, China, and the MD/DC area; and he will discuss his top ten strategies […]
Host: Carroll County Bird Club Description: CCBC members and guests only. Venue to be determined; further information will be provided when arrangements are finalized.
Description: Parties of counters will set their own schedules in their pre-arranged areas to count winter bird species throughout the county. Contact Bill Ellis to verify your bird-counting area at billellis@ellislist.com.
Host: Carroll County Bird Club Tom Miller will be leading this trip; he can be reached at birdertwm@verizon.net. Description: This waterfowl sanctuary for migrating birds is a great place to see geese, swans and ducks in the marsh along with hawks, great blue herons, and a few species of shorebirds. Eagles, both bald and golden, […]
Leighann Cline, animal keeper at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, will discuss her work. Leighann manages the loggerhead shrike breeding program at the SCBI, and she facilitates the transfer of each year’s offspring for release to Canada, where the shrike is endangered. She will talk with us about this special program and share data on […]
Host: Carroll County Bird Club Dave and Maureen Harvey will be leading this trip. Please contact them at 410-795-3117. Description: Moderate walking around the lake. Meet at the parking lot outside the gate to Piney Run Park on Martz Road off of White Rock Road.
Kathy Woods, Executive Director of the Phoenix Wildlife Center, will talk about “Bird Emergencies–What Do I Do Now?” She will give us an overview of the proper response to birds in danger, and she will answer questions that we ask her about real-life situations that we have encountered. Link to request meeting invitation will be […]
Host: Carroll County Bird Club Contact Allan McQuarrie at 410-552-1278 if you plan to attend; if there is no answer, please leave a message. Description: Come strain your eyes and ears to appreciate these curious birds as they perform their annual courting ritual. They never let us down! Meet at the parking lot at the end […]
Karen Lippy will share her stories of “The Eagles of Codorus State Park,” whose comings and goings she has watched for nearly 15 years. Karen is an author, bird enthusiast, and longtime volunteer at Codorus State Park in Hanover, PA. A link to request an invitation to the meeting will be posted later.
Host: Carroll County Bird Club Crystal Kunst will be leading this trip; you can reach Crystal at birdsonghiker@gmail.com Description: We will be birding at the former Wakefield Valley Golf Course on Fenby Farm Road in Westminster. This is a great place to bird most of the year; you can walk, bike ride, and fish in […]
Speaker: Club members and others. The focus of this meeting has not been finalized yet, in the hopes that there will be a COVID vaccine available and we will once again be able to gather and enjoy each other’s company and a personal presentation that would not work as a virtual one.
Parties of counters will set their own schedules in their pre-arranged areas to count resident and migrant bird species throughout the county. Contact Scott Hodgdon to verify your bird-counting area (scotthodgdon@msn.com or 443-280-2480).
Host: Carroll County Bird Club For more details or to RSVP contact Scott Hodgdon at 443 280 2480 or scotthodgdon@msn.com. Description: Come and enjoy a pleasant walk in the woods and along the stream. It is one of the hotspots for birding in the county. We will be looking for vireos, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers and flycatchers. […]
Host: Carroll County Bird Club For more details or to RSVP contact Matthew Hodgdon at 301 703 0657 or mhodgdon@msn.com. Description: Come and enjoy a pleasant walk while bird watching in the park. The park has a lot of open fields, four ponds and tree lines. We hope to see sparrows, swallows and Horned Larks. […]
Host: Carroll County Bird Club Contact David Smith, lacsmith12@comcast.net or 443-995-4108. Description: The focus will be to gain insights about how to identify evidence of breeding birds; and to document breeding birds from the Atlas block we are visiting. Meeting place TBA.
Host: Carroll County Bird Club Please contact David Smith at lacsmith12@comcast.net or 443-995-4108. Description: David Smith will lead birders on a half-day walk at Little Pipe Creek Park in Union Bridge. The focus of the outing will be to learn more about the Maryland-DC Breeding Bird Atlas project, which began January 1, 2020; to gain insights […]
Parties of counters will set their own schedules in their pre-arranged areas to count resident and late-migrant bird species throughout the county. Contact Scott Hodgdon to verify your bird-counting area (scotthodgdon@msn.com or 443-280-2480)
Host: Carroll County Bird Club For more details or to RSVP, contact Scott Hodgdon at 443-280-2480 or scotthodgdon@msn.com. Description: Come and enjoy a pleasant walk while bird watching in Piney Run. It is one of the hotspots for birding in the county. A mix of habitats: woods, water and fields. We should see some migratory […]
Host: Carroll County Bird Club For more details or to RSVP, contact Scott Hodgdon at 443-280-2480 or scotthodgdon@msn.com. Description: Come and enjoy a pleasant walk while bird watching in Soldiers Delight. It is one of the hotspots for birding in Baltimore County near the Liberty Reservoir. A mix of habitats: woods, creeks and fields. We […]
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