Timberdoodle
 (American Woodcock)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Field Trips and Events
Friday, March 13, Friday Bird Walk at Patterson Park, 8-930AM
Leader:  Ruth Bergstrom
Hearing strange sounds in the park? It could be the early spring mating call of the American woodcock! Several have been seen this week, and you could see one too!
Meet at the fountain in the northwest corner of Patterson Park and email ppaudubon@gmail.com to borrow binoculars.
 
Saturday, March 14, 10AM-12PM - "Home Tweet Home" at Pickering Creek Audubon Center
$25 per family
Welcome feathered neighbors to your yard in this family-friendly program. Build a birdhouse together, then find out how to set up and care for your creation. Discover which birds will use a nest box which ones to welcome into your yard. Learn how to identify new residents by their nests. Find out how to properly monitor the birds who use your nestbox. Get started on a great family adventure that will last throughout the nesting season. All materials provided.  Register with Samantha at spitts@audubon.org.
 
Sunday, March 15,  Evening Woodcock Watch - Home Depot in Edgewood (Harford Cnty).
***Waitlist only***
Leader: Tim Houghton
Meet Tim at the Home Depot in Edgewood: 2703 Pulaski Highway (HWY 40). As you enter, park in the right back (southwest). Excellent woodcock habitat. Bring a good flashlight if you have one, as well as binoculars. Please get there no later than 6:50PM (around 15 minutes before sunset). If you’ve never seen this interesting bird (its flight/mating display), or would like to see it again, contact Tim by e-mail thoughton@loyola.edu (preferred) or call 410-510-7504 in order to register. 
 
Monday, March 16, 730PM - Eastern Bluebirds - Twenty Years of Stories and Observations with Katharine Patterson
Oregon Ridge Nature Center - click here for more details
 
Looking forward:
March 28 - Patapsco Valley Signs of Spring
March 28 - Marsh Grass Restoration (see below)
March 28 - Saturday Bird Walk at Patterson Park
April 4 - Beginner Bird Walk North Point State Park
April 10 - Friday Bird Walk at Patterson  Park
April 11 - Photographing Nature at Cromwell Valley
April 18 - Wildflower Hike at Susquehanna State Park
April 25 - Spaghetti Dinner - Middleton Evans "Miracle Pond"
 
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer  with Chesapeake Audubon!
Click here for current opportunities.  We especially need helpers for our spaghetti dinner in April.
 
Patterson Park Audubon loves having volunteers for their elementary education programs.  Contact them at ppaudubon@gmail.com or call 410-558-2473
 
Pickering Creek Audubon Center:    
Habitat Restoration- Marsh Grass Restoration Day will be held on March 28, 9:30am Support Pickering Creek Audubon Center’s restoration of salt marshes at Blackwater NWR. Join us for a morning of planting salt marsh grasses at the Refuge. Then enjoy a pizza lunch and a guided tour exploring the impacts of sea level rise on this unique ecosystem and strategies that can protect marshes into the future. You will be planting in muddy, shallow water, so wear old shoes or boots.   A limited number of waders will be available on a first come first served basis.  Additional restoration days are scheduled for April 11 and April 25.  Contact Samantha at spitts@audubon.org or call 410-822-4903 to register.
News
Have you spotted a Rusty Blackbird?  Please report it for the Spring Migration Blitz  more
 
It was a record-breaking year for the Great Backyard Bird Count.  Did you participate?  more
 
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