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October 2022

Field Trip – Sandy Beach Park Nature Trail

October 15, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
545 Conklin Rd,
Binghamton, NY 13903 United States
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Join us for a field trip! We’ll be exploring the City of Binghamton’s first educational nature trail at the 16-acre Sandy Beach Park at 545 Conklin Ave. on Binghamton’s South Side. The trail features three pollinator gardens, bird and bat boxes, bee hives, new tree plantings and informational signage on conservation, pollination, endangered and invasive species, and trees and birds seen in the park. This undeveloped park located South of Binghamton has a variety of habitats and often has some…

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May 2023
FREE

Member Meeting – What’s Up With The Trees?

May 24, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
First Congregational Church,
30 Main Street
Binghamton, NY 13905 United States
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We’ll take a look at what’s going on with our trees - in the recent past and today - and what the future might hold. Environmental and ecological changes are accelerating, and trees are a sort of visible canary-in-the-coal-mine indicator of nature’s health. We’ll look at a few species from American Chestnut to Ashes to Eastern Hemlock. Are the problems manageable? Jeff Smith is a Naturalist and board member at Waterman Conservation Education Center (WCEC), with a focus on wetland…

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June 2023

Annual Member Picnic

June 28, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Port Dickinson Community Park,
816-822 Chenango Street
Binghamton, NY United States
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Bring your family to our annual picnic! Our picnic will again be at the Port Dickinson Community Park. This location is easy to find and the pavilion is right next to the parking lot. Please bring your own table service and a dish to pass. Drinks (soda, water, juice) will be provided. If you don’t have a dish to pass, come anyway, as there is always plenty of good food. After dinner we will enjoy a walk next to the…

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January 2024
FREE

Member Meeting – Tracking Mammals in the Northeast

January 24 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Vestal Library,
320 Vestal Pkwy East
Vestal, 13850
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Linda Spielman will be the guest speaker for our January meeting. She will discuss techniques for finding and identifying mammal tracks. Linda has been an environmental educator and student of animal tracking for over twenty-five years. She has studied tracking with Charles Worsham, Paul Rezendes, Susan Morse, George Leoniak, and Tom Brown. The tracker and artist Charles Worsham encouraged her to use drawing as a learning tool. Linda has been drawing ever since and loves the way drawing a track…

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February 2024
FREE

*CANCELLED* Field Trip – Winter Tracking

February 17 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
TBD

Join us for a field trip led by Linda Spielman. Location to be determined, so please register at https://forms.gle/oPjviDB6nKw6BhjE9 to receive email updates. Dress warmly and wear proper footwear for this field trip as the animal tracks we are looking for will be in the snow. A back-up date of February 17 has been set. Questions? Email bcnatclub@gmail.com.

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Field Trip – Winter Waterfowl

February 24 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

For this trip, we will visit whatever locations are “hottest” for ducks leading up to the trip. It should be a good day to see a variety of waterfowl. The final meeting location and itinerary will be emailed to registered participants based on recent waterfowl sightings and scouting of locations. Possible locations will include Boland Pond, Hillcrest Pits, Otsiningo Park, Kmart Plaza, and possibly Whitney Point Reservoir and Upper Lisle. We will go where the ducks are! Participants can choose…

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FREE

Member Meeting – Darwin’s Tangled Bank in a Changing World: The ecological and evolutionary implications of climate change for insects in temperate environments

February 28 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Vestal Library,
320 Vestal Pkwy East
Vestal, 13850
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Tom Powell will be the guest speaker for our February meeting. He will discuss how anthropogenic climate change poses multifaceted threats to insect diversity well beyond the intuitive stresses of warmer summer temperatures. We will discuss some of the major ways that insects in our region are expected to be imperiled by changing seasonal regimes in the coming decades, including the regulation of life cycle timing, aspects of overwintering physiology, and altered interactions with other species.   As always, Naturalists'…

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March 2024

Town of Fenton Earth Day Celebration Bird Song Walk

March 23 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Chenango Valley State Park,
153 Chenango Valley State Park
Chenango Forks, 13746
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In conjunction with the Town of Fenton Earth Day Celebration, we will host a bird song walk on APRIL 27 at CHENANGO VALLEY STATE PARK - 153 State Park Rd, Chenango Forks. Walk will be led by club president, Victor Lamoureux. Meetup time for the bird song walk is TBD. The event runs from 10am-2pm. This walk is free and open to the public.

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Birdwatching Basics

March 23 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Waterman Conservation Education Center,
403 Hilton Rd
Apalachin, NY 13732 United States
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Learn the basic tools to begin a life-long enjoyment of birds! Enjoy a short talk about the basics of birdwatching, including basic bird biology, identification tips, binoculars, field guides, and local birds. Explore hands-on displays where you can test out binoculars and spotting scopes, look through bird guides, learn about birding resources like eBird, and discover local birding hotspots. Join us afterwards for a walk on the Waterman trails to put what we’ve learned into practice by identifying the birds…

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Online Meeting – Golden Eagles of the Catskills

March 27 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Zoom Meeting

GOLDEN EAGLES OF THE CATSKILLS Peg DiBenedetto will be our guest speaker this month.  This ZOOM presentation highlights the work of the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society and the Eastern Golden Eagle Project to prove the existence of Golden Eagles in the Catskill Mountains. DiBenedetto volunteers with the NYS DEC, is the Board Chair of The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development and a Trustee of the Michael Kudish Natural History Preserve. She spent 20 years working in land management and holds…

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