May
4
Thu
2023
- Field Trip: Fort McCord area for SPRING ARRIVALS/MIGRANTS
- Bring binoculars and lunch
- We will make several stops. Some walking.
- Meeting place: North Pointe Center, US 11 north of Chambersburg.
- Destination: Fort McCord area in western Franklin County, PA
- Leader: Bill Oyler
May
5
Fri
2023
- Field Trip: Note: this is an evening trip, starting at 6:00 PM
- Walk around a pond, meadows and woods.
- Location: Lehman home at 750 Tallow Hill Rd, Chambersburg, PA 17202.
- Leader: Larry Lehman
May
6
Sat
2023
- Horse Valley for SPRING MIGRANTS. Bring lunch and binoculars. Many stops, in and out of cars frequently. Not a lot of walking.
- Meet at: North Pointe Center, US 11 north of Chambersburg.
- Destination: Horse Valley area
- Leaders: Valerie Barnes, 717-352-4397 or Donna Hocker, 717-491-2171.
May
8
Mon
2023
- Bird Banding
- Program focus: Cape May Raptor Banding Project generally and the changes seen in the fall migration over 5 decades of banding. Speaker will present photographic slides live. No Zoom.
- Presented by: Paul Engman
- Organized by: Dave Ebbitt
- Location: St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church
- NO Zoom
Categories:
General Meeting; usually in-person and via Zoom Meeting
Tags:
birds citizen science
May
13
Sat
2023
May 13 @ 8:00 am – 1:30 pm
- New Time and New Date – 13 May, 8 AM
- Stillhouse Hollow, Heisey Road Orchard, and some local farms for SPRING MIGRANTS. Bring scopes, binoculars, and lunch.
- Meet: Keener’s home, 5207 Heisey Road, Shippensburg.
- Destination: area near Heisey Road Orchard.
- Leader: Bob Keener, 717-532-9723 or 717-658-8765.
- Work in the native plants garden at NORLO PARK.
- Come and leave when it suits you.
- Bring garden tools and gloves.
- Location: Norlo Park Native Plants Garden
- Contact: Josh Donaldson
May
15
Mon
2023
- Field Trip to Magee Marsh, Ohio, for WARBLER MIGRANTS.
- Drive to the area on your own. No caravan planned at this time.
- Bring scopes, binoculars, and lunch. Make own hotel arrangements. Sign up by Mar. 13.
- Leaders: Bob and Terri Kochert. 717-263-3692.
May
20
Sat
2023
- Field Trip: 5:00 PM Edenville/Portico Road area for WHIP-POOR-WILLS and BOBOLINKS. Note: This is an evening trip! Whip-poor Wills start calling at or after dusk, so be prepared for a late evening.
- Leave from Sunnyway Foods parking lot, 49 Warm Spring Road, Chambersburg.
- Bring scopes and binoculars.
- Destination: Edenville/Portico Road area (Bobolinks) and farther west (Whip-poor Wills).
- Leaders: Eric and Rhetta Martin, 717-597-8675.