Meeting: Harford Bird Club

Harford Glen Environmental Education Center 502 W Wheel Road, Bel Air, MD, United States

Program TBA.

Meeting: Harford Bird Club

Harford Glen Environmental Education Center 502 W Wheel Road, Bel Air, MD, United States

Pizza followed by a brief club meeting and a presentation by Gene Scarpulla.

Fred Archibald Count

Fred Archibald Sanctuary 6011 Boyers Mill Road, New Market, MD, United States

Contact David Smith, 443-995-4108 or lacsmith12@comcast.net.

Birding by Boat: Jug Bay

Patuxent River Park - Jug Bay Natural Area 16000 Croom Airport Rd, Upper Marlboro, MD, United States

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader: Alex Pellegrini, agpell.work@gmail.com. Description: Discover the beauty of Jug Bay and its unique wild rice marshes! Join us aboard our Pontoon boat to explore areas you can't reach on foot. You will gain insights into the decades of research at Jug Bay and if luck is on your side, you […]

Susquehanna SP

Susquehanna State Park 4188 Wilkinson Rd, Havre De Grace, MD, United States

Host: Harford Bird Club Leaders Mark Johnson, Suzanne Procell and Susan Hood. Contact Mark with questions (MarkSJohnson2@gmail.com; 443-528-0045). Description: Come out to find migrants (especially warblers) at this migratory hot spot. Past trips have found 14-21 warbler species! Meet at the mill at 7 am.

Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, South Tract

Patuxent Research Refuge - Visitor Center - South Tract 10901 Scarlet Tanager Loop, Laurel, MD, United States

Host: Patuxent Bird Club/PGAS Leader Bill Sefton. Description: Meet at the parking area near the visitor center.

Western Regional Park

Western Regional Park 14800 Carrs Mill Road, Woodbine, MD, United States

Host: Howard County Bird Club Leader David Sandler, detour65@gmail.com. Description: Moderate walking along field edges and woodland trails. Opportunity for warblers, sparrows, thrushes, and flyovers. Facilities available. Park in the first parking lot on the right.

Monthly Walk at Kinder Farm Park

Kinder Farm Park 1001 Kinder Farm Park Road, Millersville, MD, United States

Host: Anne Arundel Bird Club Contact: Linda Vitchock at 410-901-7555 Description: Join us for the monthly walk along paved paths as well as grass and dirt paths through varied habitat looking for resident birds as well as migrants.

Bear Branch Nature Center

Bear Branch Nature Center 300 John Owings Road, Westminster, MD, United States

Host: Carroll County Bird Club Contact: Jeff Marx jmarx@mcdaniel.edu Description: Come and enjoy a pleasant walk in the woods and along the stream. It is one of the hotspots for birding in the county. We will be looking for vireos, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers and flycatchers. This is considered a moderate walk for terrain and distance. Carole […]

Fair Hill Bobolink Field

Fair Hill NRMA 2895 Appleton Road, Elkton, MD, United States

Host: Cecil Bird Club Leader Ken Drier (kdrier@zoominternet.net) Description: Fair Hill NRMA has designated approximately 100 acres of grassland as preserved habitat for ground-nesting birds. This unique program will benefit Bobolinks, Eastern Meadowlarks, Grasshopper Sparrows, and Northern Bobwhite, bird species whose numbers are in decline. Fair Hill NRMA and its contracted hay farmer have collaborated […]

Urban Birding in Green Oasis

Patterson Park 27 South Patterson Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD, United States

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader: Brian Rollfinke with Wild Birds Unlimited, brollfinke.wbutimonium@gmail.com or 410-561-1215. Description: Baltimore's version of Central Park is a migrant magnet, and there's no better time to visit than early May. When northbound travelers fly up the Patapsco, the first--and practically the only--green space they find is Patterson Park. Weary from a […]

Chesapeake Environmental Center

Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center 600 Discovery Lane, Grasonville, MD, United States

Host: Caroline Bird Club Description: Field trip either May 4 or 5.

Susquehanna SP

Susquehanna State Park Rock Run area 4398 Rock Run Road, Havre de Grace, MD, United States

Host: Talbot Bird Club Leaders Bettye Maki (248-225-0724 or bjmaki04@gmail.com) and Dave Burgevin (301-788-0916 or dburgevin@gmail.com) Description: Migrants, Cerulean Warbler. Depart Easton Acme parking lot at 6 am or meet at the Rock Run Mill parking area.

Cromwell Valley Park

Cromwell Valley Park 2175 Cromwell Bridge Road, Parkville, MD

Host: Frederick Bird Club Leader Gary Ladner, 973-610-3749 or garyladner57@gmail.com. Description: Half-day trip for migrants and spring arrivals. Contact leader for meeting time and location.

Izaak Walton League, Bethesda-Chevy Chase Chapter, Conservation Farm

Izaak Walton League Chapter House 20601 Izaak Walton Way, Poolesville, MD, United States

Host: Montgomery Bird Club Leader Jim Nelson at kingfishers2@verizon.net. Description: Once again, the B-CC Chapter is generously providing us access to this large private property south of Poolesville. Woods, hedgerows, streams, fields, and ponds provide a wide range of bird habitats, and migration should be well underway. Trip will start at 7 a.m. at the […]

Trip to Heislerville WMA

Heislerville WMA Heislerville, NJ, United States

Host: Harford Bird Club Leaders John Canoles, Diane Jones and Elaine & Steve Scribne Contact Elaine Scribner-Wagner (517.622.1211 or authorelainescribner@gmail.com) for questions. Description: Visit a variety of habitats – shoreline and woods in search of shorebirds, osprey, eagles, waders, skimmers, warblers, marsh hawk, eagles, clapper rails, seaside sparrows marsh wrens, and horseshoe crabs. Interesting terrains, […]

YMBC Walk: Rachel Carson Conservation Park

Rachel Carson Conservation Park 22201 Zion Rd, Brookville, MD, United States

Host: Montgomery Bird Mentors Mentors: Lauren Carey and Stephen Davies. Description: The walk will focus on woodland species. We will meet in the parking lot just off of Zion Rd. The trails are grassy/natural surface, so plan your footwear accordingly, especially if it has rained recently. The trail is approximately two miles. All children must […]

Explore Days Cove by Canoe!

Days Cove 6259 Days Cove Rd, White Marsh, MD, United States

Host: Baltimore Bird Club Leader: Sam Tillman, sam.tillman@gmail.com. Description: There is nothing like the experience of birding by boat and slipping into the natural habitat. Usually closed to the public, Days Cove sits at the confluence of the Big and Little Gunpowder Falls, which form the only true delta in Baltimore County. The habitat is […]

Meeting: YMOS

Virtual

Host: YMOS Contact: George Radcliffe, radclifg@gmail.com, 410-463-1669) Description: MD/DC Breeding Bird Atlas Project, World Series of Birding