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Member Meeting – Rick Bunting “Got Cavities”
Rick Bunting will be the first guest speaker to welcome us back to in-person meetings. He will share a compilation of photos taken over the past few years that focus on some of the our cavity nesting bird species and the family life they create in their special homes. Rick Bunting is Professor Emeritus from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam where he served as Chair of Music Education and conductor of the renowned Crane Chorus. Previous to…
Find out more »Field Trip – Sandy Beach Park Nature Trail
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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Member Meeting – What’s Up With The Trees?
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…
Find out more »Annual Member Picnic
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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Member Meeting – Tracking Mammals in the Northeast
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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*CANCELLED* Field Trip – Winter Tracking
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.
Find out more »Field Trip – Winter Waterfowl
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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Member Meeting – Darwin’s Tangled Bank in a Changing World: The ecological and evolutionary implications of climate change for insects in temperate environments
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'…
Find out more »Birdwatching Basics
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…
Find out more »Online Meeting – Golden Eagles of the Catskills
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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