Overview and ActivitiesQuick LookNext Meeting: Monday 18th June - Hawk Mountain Kestrel project |
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MeetingsUnless indicated otherwise, all SMAS Programs are held at the Adams County Agricultural Resource Center, 670 Old Harrisburg Road, Gettysburg, PA at 7:30 pm. A room number for the SMAS meeting will be posted on the front lobby entry inner door. Bonnie Portzline is happy to give her presentation ‘Birds with a Gettysburg address’ to interested parties. The presentation is based on her wonderful photographs of local birds. Saturday, 26th May, Conococheague Audubon Field Trip: 5:30 PM. Edenville area for WHIP-POOR-WILLS and BOBOLINKS. Leave from Sunnyway Foods parking lot, 49 Warm Spring Road, Chambersburg. Bring scopes, bin-oculars, and CBs. Eric and Rhetta Martin Saturday, 2nd June, Green Gathering at Gettysburg Rec Park, 11am - 4:30 pm. See web site for details. Tuesday 5th June We will meet at Carole Simon’s house at 6:30am to carpool to various spots. Her address is 336 Shriver Road, Gettysburg. Saturday, 9th June, Conococheague Audubon Field Trip: 7:00 AM. South Mountain/Caledonia/Michaux IBA for SPRING MIGRANTS. Leave from second parking lot beyond Visitors’ Center in Caledonia State Park. Bring scopes, binoculars, and CBs. Eric and Rhetta Martin, 717-597-8675. Saturday, 16th June, Conococheague Audubon Field Trip: 7:30 AM. SUMMER RESIDENTS for beginning birders. Menno Haven Creekside Nature Trail. Bring binoculars and field guide. Dress for wet grass conditions. Valerie Barnes, 717-352-4397. Monday 18th June Presentation by Jean-François Therrien on the Kestrel Project at Hawk Mountain. Friday 22nd June Bird Walk at Oakside Park, Biglerville. Meet at the parking lot off route 394; time: 8 am. Any questions - contact Mike Bertram on 717-809-3911 Saturday 21st July Bird Walk at Oakside Park, Biglerville. Meet at the parking lot off route 394; time: 8 am. Any questions - contact Mike Bertram on 717-809-3911 Monday 13th August Annual Picnic - details forthcoming. Sunday, 16th to Friday 21st September 2018, NatureStabler Exploration is running a Hudson River Trip. See Tentative Schedule and Activity Descriptions for details. Reservations needed by the 1st August. Monday 15th October ‘My Educational Tools - Nature & Travel’, presentation by Cindy Ross. Cindy Ross is the author of six published books on the outdoors as well as over 1,000 magazine articles. Her 7th book, The World is Our Classroom- How One Family Used Nature & Travel to Shape an Extraordinary Education is coming out September 1, 2018. Home SchoolersOn the 23rd March the Society hosted a group of home schoolers at Caledonia State Park. Linette Mansberger gave a presentation on birds likely to be seen at bird feeders. The group then went outside and viewed the feeders around the visitor’s center. Brown-headed Cowbird Citizen Scientists Wanted!
The Pennsylvania Amphibian & Reptile Survey is looking for interested citizen scientists to participate in their survey in this area. Willingness to record and report amphibian and reptile observations is needed. The 2 websites listed below provide more information on the project, the opportunity to sign up, and links to help with identification of herps: PARS and Pennsylvania Herp Identification For more additional information contact the Adams County coordinator Sue Muller. Her email address is: adams@paherpsurvey.org The South Mountain Audubon Society aims are to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity focusing on Adams County, PA. The Society works towards those aims with meetings, birding trips, and conservation activities. There are 2 Important Bird Areas locally: Click here to join National Audubon and the South Mountain Audubon Society. Please select U17 as the Chapter code from the drop down menu on the form. If you only want to join the South Mountain Audubon Society only then sign up at the next event you attend. The annual membership is $15. |
Field TripsFIELD TRIPS - Field trips will be announced in
the quarterly newsletters (when possible) and on this website. Each field trip
will list a contact person and a meeting place. Please be sure to notify
the listed contact person of your planned attendance so that you can be
alerted to any changes in the schedule or meeting place. Bird Arrivals and DeparturesSMAS is developing a friendly competition to document the dates of bird arrivals and depatures in Adams County. Feedback is requested on the concept and a draft web page which documents the dates. Global Big DayOn the 5th May South Mountain Audubon participated in the Global Big Day Bird Count. Don Gilbert led a walk around the Harrisburg Hospital site. We saw 64 species. The most surprising was seeing a flight of Common Loons overhead. Milesburn Road,
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Broad-winged Hawk