• Background: Michaux State Forest staff asked CAS to help monitor birds at several specific sites on the Michaux. This is the second of two field trips to show participants where the sites are and to explain the monitoring protocols. Expect to see late fall migrants and winter residents.The map below shows where the sites are. On this trip, you will visit some, but not all sites. The Part 1 trip started the tour.
• Meet at Mont Alto State Park parking lot on Rt 233 (across from pavilion).
• Bring binoculars, snack, and sturdy walking shoes.   Expect an easy approx. 4-mile walk.
• Leader: John Greer
• Additional information about the monitoring project can be found in these files:
  • Creating eBird checklists
  • Site Distances and Times

• Location: Conococheague Institute. Meet at the Visitor Center.
• Bring Binoculars.
• Leaders: Larry and Sharon Williams

NOT PLANNED in  2022: Tally Dinner to report results of Chambersburg Christmas Bird Count. Due to COVID-19 concerns and lack of staffing at normal venue. Zone captains should forward results to the compiler. We may schedule a Zoom meeting for zone captains to discuss the count.

• Field Trip: To see and hear the mating rituals of AMERICAN WOODCOCKS.
• Drive to Heisey Road orchard.
• Witness the annual mating flight of these woodland birds.
• Bring flashlight.
• Be prepared for tall, wet grass.
• Meeting place: Park & Ride, Scotland, Exit 20, I-81 northbound. Meet at the Park & Ride at 5:45 PM , or go directly to Heisey Road orchard on  your own and be there by 6:00 PM
• Destination: Heisey Road orchard. Note: birders are welcome, despite the Posted signs.
• Leader: Bob Kochert

• Topic: Hawk Mountain Sanctuary’s PA Farmland Raptor Project [Note: this speaker was originally scheduled for February with a slightly different topic]
• Presenter: Bracken Brown, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary.
• Speaker will be in person.
• Attendees may view via Zoom at St. Luke or from home.
• Location: St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church.
• Organized by: Terri Kochert.

Zoom info

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7211203928?pwd=RXNwMjZpQVNvSHJGRld3cWZFQjJiZz09

Meeting ID: 721 120 3928
Passcode: cardinal20

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• Field Trip: FALL MIGRANTS.
• Bring binoculars and snack.
• One mile walk in wet grass at Heisey Orchard. Then by car on Michaux SF roads with additional walk(s) of up to half mile, with trip ending between 12 and 1 PM.
• Meeting place: Park & Ride, Scotland Exit 20, I-81 northbound.
• Destinations: Heisey Rd Orchard and Michaux State Forest.
  
• Leader: Bill Oyler