Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leaders Alyssia Church and Libby Errickson (hawksaucebirding@gmail.com) Description: The Baltimore Bird Club will be taking a weekend trip to Cape May, NJ! Participants can expect to see a variety of raptors, passerines, shorebirds, and more! Butterflies will also be plentiful at this time of year and Monarch migration will be starting […]
Host: Talbot Bird Club Leader Jeff Effinger (410-443-5016 or jkeffinger55@gmail.com) Description: Waterfowl, hawks, passerines. Depart Easton Acme parking lot at 6:30 am or meet at Black Walnut at 7 am.
Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leaders Debbie and Lou Taylor (debrataylor11@gmail.com or 410-852-9807) Description: Explore this section of the C&O Canal. We may see/hear the following warblers: Tennessee, Black-throated Green, Black-throated Blue, Blackpoll, Chestnut-sided, Bay-breasted. Also possible: American Kestrel, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Blue-headed Vireo. RSVP required.
Host: Anne Arundel Bird Club Contact: Alan Young, 410-991-8300 or alanmyoung@gmail.com
Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader Laura Lechtzin (lechtzin@verizon.net) Description: Part of a series of weekly Tuesday morning walks to follow the progress of fall migration. This park has a variety of habitats, including fields, stream-side woods, and hillside forests. Expect a variety of migrant and resident birds. Beginning birders welcome.
Host: YMOS Contact: George Radcliffe (radclifg@gmail.com,410-463-1669) Description: Program TBA
Program: Rhythms of the Night: Using Bats as Monitors of Pollution in Baltimore City. Bats use high frequency pulses, called echolocation to learn more about their environment. From hunting, navigation and communication, this secret language is incredibly important to many species of bats. However, there is still much to learn about bats in urban areas […]
Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader Mary Chatelat (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 the walk will be rescheduled to October 11. General grounds include the paved Seawall Trail. Meet in the large grassy unpaved roped-off parking […]
Host: Patuxent Bird Club/PGAS Leader T. Watson Description: Two-mile walk around lake on paved path, wheelchair-accessible. Families welcome. Meet at parking area at corner of Berwyn Rd. and Ballew Ave. in Berwyn Heights. No reservations needed. Leader varies. For more information, see PGAS Meetup site at https://www.meetup.com/Prince-Georges-Audubon-Society/
Marcia Balestri: Papua New Guinea. Meeting in Room 236, Hodson Science and Technology Building. Social time at 6 pm.
Host: Frederick Bird Club Leader David Smith (443-995-4108 or lacsmith12@comcast.net) Description: Contact leader for location and to schedule your shift.
Host: Talbot Bird Club Leader Dave Burgevin (301-788-0916 or dburgevin@gmail.com) Description: Waterfowl, shorebirds. Depart Easton Acme parking lot at 6:30 am or meet at Bombay Hook at 8 am.
Host: Patuxent Bird Club/PGAS Leader Bill Sefton (kiwisuits@msn.com). Description: Two-mile out-and-back walk at natural area on the Patuxent River – fields, wet woods, brushy areas. Trail is gravel and dirt and is mostly flat, no hills. Meet at 7:30 AM at east end of Lemon’s Bridge Road, off Route 197 just north of Bowie State […]
Host: Anne Arundel Bird Club Contact: Alan Young, 410-991-8300 or alanmyoung@gmail.com
Host: Harford Bird Club Leaders Matt Addicks (443-987-7208 or maddicks13@gmail.com) and Sue Procell (443-417-4919 or procellmd@gmail.com.) Description: Search for migrants, residents and hawks at this peninsula in the Chesapeake. Meet at the Turkey Point parking lot
Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leaders Matthew Black and Anand Pandian (matthewblack66@yahoo.com) 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 […]
Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader John Landers (dado1bw@aol.com) Description: Part of a series of weekly Tuesday morning walks to follow the progress of fall migration. This park has a variety of habitats, including fields, stream-side woods, and hillside forests. Expect a variety of migrant and resident birds. Beginning birders welcome.
Churchill, Manitoba: Birds, Bears, and Belugas presented by Dr. Matthew C. Perry. The talk by Matt Perry is based on 13 trips he made to Churchill, Manitoba, in conjunction with his research on seaducks, but also as a leader of ecotours. Most of his time was devoted to Long-tailed Ducks, but in the process, he […]
Host: Frederick Bird Club Leader Kari McPartland (443-854-2283 or kari.mcp.10@gmail.com) Description: Fall migrants. Contact leader for meeting time and location.
Host: Tri-county Bird Club For more information contact Mike Walsh at 410-422-0428 or mik.walsh@comcast.net Description: Field Trip to Assateague National Seashore to search for coastal migrants, especially hawks, warblers and sparrows. Meet at Schumaker Park parking lot at 7:00 am or at the National Seashore Visitor Center parking lot (before the bridge) at 7:45 am. […]
Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader Bud Poole budpoole343@gmail.com Description: Meet at the south end of the boat lake. Explore the various microhabitats within the urban space. Share the past and future evolution of this urban migrant stopover plus how the community members and partner organizations are playing a role. Includes open discussion about how you […]
Host: Harford Bird Club Contact French Cornett (410-676-4428 or Frenchcornett@comcast.net) for further details. Description: Leisurely birding in this wetland park in the Gunpowder. Sparrows and later migrants.
Host: Talbot Bird Club Leader Janet MacDonald (973-903-4208 or janetmacdonald68@gmail.com) Description: Waterfowl, passerines. Depart Easton Acme parking lot at 6:30 am or meet at Wades Point at 7 am.
Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader Sam Tillman (sam.tillman@gmail.com or 443-844-5917) Description: This walk will explore one of Baltimore City’s newer eBird hotspots, Chinquapin Run Park, an underbirded highlight of North Baltimore. The park is a 2-mile, 76-acre stream corridor that follows the length of Chinquapin Run, a tributary of Herring Run (and ultimately Back River), […]
Host: Washington County Bird Club Call or text Mark Abdy if interested, 301-573-1301 Description: Meet in parking lot next to the Police Station.
Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader Mary Chatelat (443-564-6551) Description: Part of a series of weekly Tuesday morning walks to follow the progress of fall migration. This park has a variety of habitats, including fields, stream-side woods, and hillside forests. Expect a variety of migrant and resident birds. Beginning birders welcome.
Host: Howard Bird Club Leaders – Bonnie Ott, sparrowdamsel@gmail.com; Val Swan, valnjeff55@gmail.com Description: Birds in Flight – Learn the basics of identifying birds in flight. Focus will be on hawks and larger birds. Bonnie and Val will explain the basics of binoculars and field guides. This is a stationary trip and benches are available. Feel […]
Host: Patuxent Bird Club/PGAS Leader T. Watson Description: Two-mile walk around lake on paved path, wheelchair-accessible. Families welcome. Meet at parking area at corner of Berwyn Rd. and Ballew Ave. in Berwyn Heights. No reservations needed. Leader varies. For more information, see PGAS Meetup site at https://www.meetup.com/Prince-Georges-Audubon-Society/
Host: Talbot Bird Club Leader Ron Ketter (707-373-5532 or rgketter@gmail.com) Description: Woodland birds, sparrows. Depart Easton Acme parking lot at 7 am or meet at Frederick Douglass Park at 7:30 am.
Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader Frank Marenghi (frank_marenghi@hotmail.com) Description: Please join Serenity Ridge and Baltimore Bird Club for a partnered habitat hike and birding walk through the trails of Serenity Ridge. Serenity Ridge has an impressive array of fields, old field, and primary riparian forest habitats. There are over 3 miles of trails over somewhat […]
Host: Patuxent Bird Club/PGAS Leader Bill Sefton (kiwisuits@msn.com) Description: Two mile loop around area. Meet at the parking area off Governor Bridge Road, south and east of the Route 301/Route 3/Route 50 interchange at 7:30 am
Host: Frederick Bird Club Leader David Smith (443-995-4108 or lacsmith12@comcast.net) Description: Fall migrants. Contact leader for meeting time and location.
Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader Tim Carney (timcarney83@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 […]
“Dark Side of the Loon” presented by noted ornithologist, Dr. Paul Spitzer. For more information contact Ellen Lawler at 410-982-8695 or emlawler534@comcast.net.
Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader Matthew Black (matthewblack66@yahoo.com) Description: Part of a series of weekly Tuesday morning walks to follow the progress of fall migration. This park has a variety of habitats, including fields, stream-side woods, and hillside forests. Expect a variety of migrant and resident birds. Beginning birders welcome.
Mark Abdy and Heather McSharry will talk on – Land of Rockslides, Hummers and Eggs-with-legs: The Ecuadorian Andes
Host: Anne Arundel Bird Club Contact: Fred Shaffer, 443-926-6457 or glaucousgull@verizon.net
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