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Bird Banding Demonstration
Bird Banding Demonstration
August 3, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 10:00 am
Bedford Audubon Society, 35 Todd Rd, Katonah, NY 10536, USA
All summer, Naturalist Tait Johansson and Summer Field Biologist Kim Jordan, together with a team of volunteers, have been operating our MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity & Survivorship) Station in our Hunt-Parker Sanctuary. Our Bird Banding Demonstration at Bylane Farm is a great opportunity to see what they do, without trekking into the sanctuary before daybreak! Learn more about MAPS and Bedford Audubon’s role as Tait and a team of volunteers band birds, explaining every step along the way. This is a family-friendly event, but children must be accompanied by an adult.
Sunday, August 3, 8:00am-10:00am, Bylane Farm. Cost: Free, but donations are welcome to help support this research. Please email Susan to register: info@bedfordaudubon.org.
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First Wednesday's Bird Walk
First Wednesday's Bird Walk
August 6, 2025 @ 7:30 am - 9:30 am
Deans Bridge Road, Deans Bridge Rd, Somers, NY 10589, USA
On our monthly visit to the Deans Bridge area in Somers, Naturalist Tait Johansso nwill guide us in an exploration of water, wetland, grassland, and woodland habitat to search for Wood Duck, Great Blue Heron, Yellow Warbler, possibly Solitary Sandpiper, and others.
Wednesday, August 6, 7:30am-9:30am, Deans Bridge Road, Somers Cost: Free. Level of difficulty: Moderate (due to a steep incline in one area).
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Members' Photo Exhibit Reception
Members' Photo Exhibit Reception
August 9, 2025 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Mount Kisco Public Library, 100 E Main St, Mt Kisco, NY 10549, USA
Back by popular demand! Our Members' Photo Exhibit is hitting the road for a one-month run at the Mount Kisco Library! We hope you will join us at a reception to celebrate the exhibit's "encore" opening. Enjoy refreshments and a keynote presentation by Bedford Audubon Board President John Hannan. John will expand on the exhibit's theme, From Near and Far: Celebrating Birds Across the Americas, and discuss critical issues affecting bird migration across North, Central and South America. Spanish language translation and bilingual materials will be provided. Free and open to all!
Saturday, August 9th, 1:30pm - 3:30pm, Mount Kisco Public Library Community Room, 2nd Floor. Please email Susan to register: info@bedfordaudubon.org.
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Field Trip to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Field Trip to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
August 10, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 1:00 pm
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, 175-10 Cross Bay Blvd, Broad Channel, NY 11693, USA
If you can’t make our Shorebirds Workshop and Field Trip, we are offering another chance to take a trip birding with Naturalist Tait Johansson to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. This trip is timed to coincide with high tide when the marshes of the open bay are submerged, but the East Pond mudflats are not tidal, providing foraging and/or resting areas while the waters are high outside. Wear rubber boots, or old sneakers and a change of footwear for later, as we’re expecting mud possibly up to above the ankles while we search for Glossy Ibis, Great Blue and Yellow-crowned Night Herons, Osprey, egrets, and possibly flocks of hundreds of sandpipers and plovers of many species.
Sunday,August 10, 8:00am-1:00pm. Cost: Free. Level of difficulty: Easy-moderate.
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NEW DATE! Shorebirds Workshop & Field Trip
NEW DATE! Shorebirds Workshop & Field Trip
August 13, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 2:30 pm
Get your feet wet with shorebirds!
Summer is the perfect time to explore the coast and identify the fabulous birds that call it home. Please join us for Naturalist Tait Johansson’s new Wading into the World of Shorebirds workshop. It will begin with an engaging info session at Bylane Farm during which Tait will dive into key characteristics, habitats, and behaviors of various shorebird species. Then, we’ll put our new knowledge to the test during a field visit to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, where we’ll identify shorebirds in their natural environment. The program is timed to coincide with high tide at Jamaica Bay, when hundreds Short-billed Dowitchers, Semipalmated Sandpipers, and Least Sandpipers are expected to gather on the East Pond, along with many other shorebird species, often including a few Stilt Sandpipers and sometimes something rarer!
Wednesday, August 13, 8:00-9:30am (classroom portion), 11:00am-2:30pm (field trip). Cost: $25.00 for members; $60.00 for non-members (includes a one-year membership); fees include a take-home shorebird ID resource packet. Level of Difficulty: Easy. Please email Susan to register (info@bedfordaudubon.org) or click here to sign up online.
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Habitat Renewal Volunteer Day
Habitat Renewal Volunteer Day
August 16, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Board Member and Naturalist Steve Ricker leads these workshop sessions in which hewill teach you how to identify and remove invasive plants and why this practiceis so vital to the ecosystem. In some sessions, we will be replanting nativeplants. The sessions are conducted entirely outside on our sanctuary and grounds, as well as in the Leon Levy Native Habitat Garden at Bedford Audubon. This is a great way to get some exercise, fresh air, and support our communities’ native plants and habitats. Tools and gloves are provided, but you can bring your own: loppers and hand pruners are the most used types. Plants with thorns as well as poison ivy will be present.
Saturday, August 16, 9:00am-10:30am.Cost: Free. Level of difficulty: Easy-moderate.
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Third Thursday's Bird Walk
Third Thursday's Bird Walk
August 21, 2025 @ 7:30 am - 9:30 am
Cross River Reservoir, New York, USA
Ifyou missed seeing warblers during spring migration, join us in search of them before they head out, as many warblers are already migrating by mid-August. Join Naturalist Tait Johansson at our popular Third Thursday’s Bird Walk to look for these small birds and other songbird migrants while you have the chance. This is an easy walk, great for beginners and experienced birders alike.
Thursday, August 21, 7:30am-9:30am. Cost: Free. Level of difficulty: Easy.
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