Topic 1: Youth Contest Winners announced tonight.
- Topic 2: Breeding Bird Surveys in our National Parks: Catoctin’s Top Ten
- Presented by: Member Becky Loncosky
- Arranged by: Lisa Coombs
- Available in-person or via Zoom
- Location: St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Zoom info
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7211203928?pwd=RXNwMjZpQVNvSHJGRld3cWZFQjJiZz09&omn=86828574719
Meeting ID: 721 120 3928
Passcode: cardinal20
Activity: Fine Art Bird Prints.
Just in time for holiday gift-giving, at our December 9 meeting we will display more than 20 fine art prints from the collection of Jim and Deb Wheeling. The Wheelings are generously donating the prints to Conococheague Audubon, and we are offering them to you. Any voluntary contribution would be welcome. The prints will be available for viewing starting at 6:30 PM.
Program Topic : Diversity in the Andes.
Then at 7 PM, the December program, Diversity in the Andes, will highlight the spectacular plumage of bird species in “the birdiest place in the world.” After learning how folks in Colombia and Ecuador are benefiting from birding tourism, the program will finish with a colorful slide show of beautiful equatorial birds.
- Presented by: CAS members Terri Kochert and Debby Hook
- Available in-person or via Zoom
- Location: St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Zoom info
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7211203928?pwd=RXNwMjZpQVNvSHJGRld3cWZFQjJiZz09&omn=86015186971
Meeting ID: 721 120 3928
Passcode: cardinal20
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- Chambersburg Area Christmas Bird Count is on Saturday, December 14, 2024.
- If you live inside our circle, you may want to count at your feeders this year. See the map below for a view of our circle. If you can’t tell whether you are inside the circle or not, please contact the compiler, Valerie Barnes, or look at the more detailed map. To count at your feeders, please sign up well in advance with Marguerite Fries.
- We will not hold a tally dinner. The compiler will connect with the zone captains to record the results. Results will be posted on our Observation Records page.
- Contact: Valerie Barnes to sign up to count (if you didn’t count last year). Your zone captain should contact you if you counted last year. If you are new to the count, Val will assign you to a zone and the zone captain will contact you.
Download field reporting form
Download feeder reporting form and instructions
Chambersburg Area Christmas Bird Count Circle
Download (9 MB) detailed map
- Christmas Bird Count in Franklin/Fulton Counties: Buchanan Trail CBC
- Contact Vern Gauthier to sign up to count (if you didn’t count last year). Your area captain should contact you if you counted last year. If you are new to the count, Vern will assign you to an area and the area captain will contact you.
- All Day. For any additional information, contact Vern Gauthier
PABT Franklin/Fulton County CBC Map
![PABT Map](https://conococheagueaudubon.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/PABT-All-Areas-Update-8-25-23-Gray-3-300x287.png)
![PABT Map](https://conococheagueaudubon.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/PABT-All-Areas-Update-8-25-23-Gray-3-300x287.png)
- Christmas Bird Count in Newville area.
- All Day. For information, contact Vern Gauthier
- Christmas Bird Count in York Springs area
- All Day. For information, contact Tim Johnson.
- Program: Humming With the Hummingbirds: Small is Beautiful
- Presented by: Members David & Joyce Leaman
- Arranged by: Rhetta Martin
- Available in-person or via Zoom
- Location: St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Zoom info:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7211203928?pwd=RXNwMjZpQVNvSHJGRld3cWZFQjJiZz09&omn=82841338471
Meeting ID: 721 120 3928
Passcode: cardinal20
Work Day: Adopt-A-Highway clean-up on 2 miles of Route 997 (Black Gap Road) west from I-81. Pick up trash on section with wide shoulders, easy walking. Supplies provided.
Meet at Scotland Park & Ride, I-81 exit 20.
Sign up with John Greer
- Program: Birds with a Gettysburg Address
- Presented by: Bonnie Portzline
- Arranged by: Lisa Coombs
- Available in-person or via Zoom
- Location: St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Zoom info:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7211203928?pwd=RXNwMjZpQVNvSHJGRld3cWZFQjJiZz09&omn=82084516488
Meeting ID: 721 120 3928
Passcode: cardinal20
- Presentation: Bird Is a Verb: An Introduction to Birding
- Presented by Conococheague Audubon members Ron George and Tracy Snyder
If you love learning about the natural world and spending time outdoors, come learn about the many joys and challenges of birding, including why we don’t call it “bird watching” anymore and why you should go birding!
Learn how to identify different species, including the tools you need, when and where to look for birds, the keys to observing birds, and the importance of listening to bird calls.
Along the way, you’ll see original photos of one hundred different species–almost all of them taken here in South Central Pennsylvania. This is just a sample of the amazing variety of birds that live in, pass through, and wander into our part of the world!
Location: Blue Ridge Summit Library. Located at 13676 Monterey Lane
Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17214