Weekend Waterfowl Walk at Ford Lake
2024-02-18 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Detroit) | Ford Lake Boardwalk Access, 526 S. Grove Street, Ypsilanti, MI, 48197, United States
Ford Lake and its boardwalk provide one of the best winter birding opportunities in Washtenaw County. There have been 76 species seen at Ford Lake in February. We look forward to seeing a variety of waterfowl, gulls and local winter birds.
Directions: Meet at the parking lot off of South Grove Street. Lot is located south of I-94 at the northeast corner of Ford Lake, across from the Citgo Station at the intersection of Service Drive and South Grove St.
Leader: Matthew Spoor

All are welcome and encouraged to join us. New to birding? Bird curious? No binoculars? No problem! There is no better way to learn than to get out in the field with experienced birders that love to help. Plus, you get to meet awesome people. Absolutely everyone is welcome and encouraged to come out. We will have many pairs of quality binoculars on hand for anyone to use.
eBird Checklist Signup: If you are attending the walk and would like the eBird checklist shared with you, please give us your email or eBird username here (you may do this onsite well): tinyurl.com/eBirdList

Joan Kellenberg: Michigan’s Remarkable Efforts to Save the Endangered Great Lakes Piping Plover
2024-02-21 19:30 - 21:00 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N Dixboro Rd, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, United States
Washtenaw Audubon Society and the Sierra Club Huron Valley Group have partnered to bring you this special presentation. After discovering the Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Team at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in 2020, Joan joined them as a volunteer in 2021. She enjoys traveling north to spend hours on the beach educating park visitors about piping plovers and doing safety checks on nesting adults and new chicks. Last summer, she went to North Manitou Island, the largest Great Lakes piping plover breeding area, to track a new plover pair.
Joan lives in Ann Arbor and is a public health professional by training. She was an informal bird enthusiast until she discovered the Great Lakes piping plover. Now her family says it has become an obsession. She hopes to convince others to join the piping plover recovery effort!

This will be a hybrid in-person and virtual meeting. To connect by Zoom please use the following link: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/3288051893?pwd=[REDACTED]

Restoration Workday at Searles Nature Preserve
2024-02-25 14:00 - 16:00 | Searles Nature Preserve, 585V+4J Ypsilanti, Michigan, Ypsilanti, MI, 48197, United States
Did you know Washtenaw Audubon owns a nature preserve? We do! Searles Nature Preserve is a 50 acre natural area that hosts the headwaters of Stony Creek. Did you also know that Ninety-seven percent of North American landbirds require animal, primarily insect, protein to raise their young? Most insects require specific, native, host plants for successful reproduction and this is why supporting a biodiverse ecosystem of native plants is so important. More on this here: https://tinyl.io/93Ka
Join us as we work to remove invasive species and improve biodiversity to support the birds we love. Tools and know how will be provided. Please bring leather work gloves, wear long pants, tall socks, and closed-toe shoes or boots.
Directions: Meet at the entrance to the preserve on Bolla Road between Crane and Stony Creek Roads. (map here)

Diversity in the Outdoors: Presentation at Mallet’s Creek Library
2024-02-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Ann Arbor District Library: Malletts Creek Branch, 3090 E Eisenhower Pkwy, Ann Arbor, MI, 48108, United States
Joint presentation between Natural Area Preservation and Ann Arbor District Library. Victor Chen (Education Chair for Washtenaw Bird & Nature Alliance) and Brandan Freeman (founder of the Shades of the Outdoors BIPOC group) discuss their experiences of being a person of color in the outdoors and how we can all make the outdoors more welcoming for everybody.
Directions: 3090 E. Eisenhower Parkway (east of Stone School Road)

Weekend Waterfowl Walk at Barton Pond
2024-03-03 09:00 - 11:00 | Barton Nature Area Parking Lot, MI
We will be searching for winter waterfowl on the pond. This is one of the top birding locations for March in Washtenaw County. See November Barton Pond eBird Sightings for a list of what has been seen and this eBird bar chart of what can be expected when. We may also search the surrounding nature area for overwintering birds.
Dress warm as it can be windy near the pond. Bring a scope if you have one. Most people don’t so don’t worry, we share.
Directions: Meet at the Barton Nature Area parking lot off of Huron River Drive, 250 feet north of Bird Rd, near Barton Dam.
Leaders: Juliet Berger & Matt Spoor

All are welcome and encouraged to join us. New to birding? Bird curious? No binoculars? No problem! There is no better way to learn than to get out in the field with experienced birders that love to help. Plus, you get to meet awesome people. Absolutely everyone is welcome and encouraged to come out. We will have many pairs of quality binoculars on hand for anyone to use.

eBird Checklist Signup: If you are attending the walk and would like the eBird checklist shared with you, please give us your email or eBird username here (you may do this onsite well): tinyurl.com/eBirdList

Tour: University of Michigan Herbarium
2024-03-07 19:00 - 21:00 | University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 3600 Varsity Drive, Ann Arbor, MI, 48108, United States
Join us for a presentation and tour of the University of Michigan Herbarium hosted by Aly Baumgartner, applied paleobotanist and vascular plants collection manager. The collections consist of 1.7 million irreplaceable specimens of vascular plants, algae, bryophytes, fungi, and lichens originating from places and habitats that are now prohibitively expensive or dangerous to visit or that have been drastically altered by human activity. They include representatives of extinct species and populations, providing a portion of the only record available for studying effects of environmental change on the distribution, appearances, and genetic features of the world’s plants and fungi. Please know that an herbarium houses dried, pressed plants, so there will be no live plants there. The tour will be informal and participants are highly encouraged to bring curiosity and questions!
Due to the nature of the space, we will be limiting the tour to 30 people and to WAS members only. If there is space available the week prior to the event, we will open them to non-members.
Directions: Registered attendees will meet at University of Michigan Research Museums Center at 3600 Varsity Drive. Map

BIPOC Bird Walk at North Hydro Park
2024-03-09 09:30 - 11:30 | North Hydro Park Winter Entrance, 6C6W+WH5, Ypsilanti Charter Twp
We invite all people from the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) community and our white allies to join us on this walk to look for waterfowl and winter birds. All ages and skill levels are invited. We will have extra binoculars if you do not have any.
Directions: Meet at the entrance by Ambassador Drive and Woodale Ave. If there is snow on the ground, be sure to wear boots.
Leader: Victor Chen

All are welcome and encouraged to join us. New to birding? Bird curious? No binoculars? No problem! There is no better way to learn than to get out in the field with experienced birders that love to help. Plus, you get to meet awesome people. Absolutely everyone is welcome and encouraged to come out. We will have many pairs of quality binoculars on hand for anyone to use.

eBird Checklist Signup: If you are attending the walk and would like the eBird checklist shared with you, please give us your email or eBird username here (you may do this onsite well): tinyurl.com/eBirdList

Weekend Waterfowl Walk at Gallup Park
2024-03-16 08:00 - 10:00 | Gallup Park Livery, 77GX+Q86, Ann Arbor, 48105, United States
The pond and surrounding woods at Gallup provide one of the most diverse hotspots for March birding in Washtenaw County. This should be the peak of waterfowl migration and we hope to see some interesting species.
Directions: Meet at the Gallup Park Livery parking lot.
Leaders: Juliet Berger & Matthew Spoor

All are welcome and encouraged to join us. New to birding? Bird curious? No binoculars? No problem! There is no better way to learn than to get out in the field with experienced birders that love to help. Plus, you get to meet awesome people. Absolutely everyone is welcome and encouraged to come out. We will have many pairs of quality binoculars on hand for anyone to use.

eBird Checklist Signup: If you are attending the walk and would like the eBird checklist shared with you, please give us your email or eBird username here (you may do this onsite well): tinyurl.com/eBirdList

Nature Walk at Goodrich Preserve
2024-03-17 11:00 - 13:00 | Goodrich Preserve, 3685 N Dixboro Rd, Ann Arbor, 48105, United States
Join naturalists George Hammond and Matt Spoor as we explore this forest. Though this property is only 36 acres, it is connected to University of Michigan Horner McLaughlin Woods, Washtenaw County’s Freeman Preserve, the City of Ann Arbor’s Marshal Nature and comprises a 296 acre complex. It is dominated by old growth forest that ranges from hilltop oak-hickory on the eastern Goodrich property to maple-mixed Hardwoods covering rich central valleys.
Directions: From U.S.-23: Exit 41, Plymouth Road. Head east on Plymouth, left onto Dixboro Road (heading north). The preserve access point is located on the west side of Dixboro Road in Ann Arbor Township, approximately 0.2 miles south of M-14 and 150 feet north of Overbrook Drive.
Leaders: George Hammond & Matthew Spoor

Special Member Meeting: Name Change Vote
2024-03-20 19:30 - 20:30 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N Dixboro Rd, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, United States
We have a very important meeting to share with you all. On March 20th, 2024 at Matthaei Botanical Gardens at 7:30 PM, we will vote in an up or down vote to ratify our newly selected name, Washtenaw Bird & Nature Alliance! Please plan to attend if you are a member, as of March 15th or join/renew by then. You may contact our membership chair, Diana Miller membership@washtenawbna.org to check your membership status if you are not sure. Only members can vote. According to our Constitution and By-laws, our votes to change the constitution must be in person, and fulfill a certain percentage of our members in attendance. Don’t miss the chance to help us make this historic change.
I want to give you all an idea of how we decided upon Washtenaw Bird & Nature Alliance. In October, at our in person meeting at Matthaei Botanical Gardens, members overwhelmingly voted to drop the name of Audubon from our organization. Members wanted to avoid names that sound exclusive like ‘society and club’ and people’s names like Audubon or Wilson. There is a movement afoot within sister organizations across the country, including some in our immediate vicinity, to use the name Bird Alliance. In fact Detroit Audubon recently adopted Detroit Bird Alliance as their new name. We sincerely hope National Audubon will reconsider their decision to keep Audubon, and believe that a consensus name among our sister organizations, like Bird Alliance, is a great way to move NAS in this direction. We took a poll of our members, which was sent out in October after the meeting, and over 150 WAS community members responded!! Thank you!! The most abundant name suggestions contained Bird Alliance. Next, we formed a subcommittee of interested community members and WAS Board members, who decided on 3 name alternatives from the suggestions of members, all incorporating the Bird Alliance moniker. Then in a recent vote of the WAS Board, we decided upon Washtenaw Bird & Nature Alliance. The word Audubon always meant more than birds to me and others, so we added Nature to our new proposed name to encompass all we do. Ever been to a Butterfly Walk, Moth Night, Museum Insect or Herbarium tour or one of our Nature Walks? We are Birds AND Nature.
Please plan to join us at Matthaei at our March 20th, 7:30 PM meeting to ratify our new name!! I promise to bake another BIG cake and we can all have a festive naming party of special significance!
I am looking forward to seeing you all at the naming party!
Good birding,
Juliet Berger, President
Washtenaw Audubon Society

Annual One Road Challenge
2024-03-23 00:00 - 11:00 | MI
This is a friendly team birding competition where teams pick one road in the county to see how many birds they can see in a morning along that road. If you have a team, great. If not, that’s OK too; register and we will help set you up with a team.
More details and competition rules can be found here.
Everyone is welcome to join the teams for lunch and tally rally at 11:30 AM at Holiday’s Restaurant (map here).
No need to participate in the event to join us for lunch and hear the great birding stories of the day.

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Restoration Workday at Searles Nature Preserve
2024-03-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Searles Nature Preserve, 585V+4J Ypsilanti, Michigan, Ypsilanti, MI, 48197, United States
Did you know Washtenaw Bird & Nature Alliance (formerly Washtenaw Audubon Society) owns a nature preserve? We do! Searles Nature Preserve is a 50 acre natural area that hosts the headwaters of Stony Creek. Did you also know that Ninety-seven percent of North American landbirds require animal, primarily insect, protein to raise their young? Most insects require specific, native, host plants for successful reproduction and this is why supporting a biodiverse ecosystem of native plants is so important. More on this here: https://tinyl.io/93Ka
Join us as we work to remove invasive species and improve biodiversity to support the birds we love. Tools and know how will be provided. Please bring leather work gloves, wear long pants, tall socks, and closed-toe shoes or boots.
Directions: Meet at the entrance to the preserve on Bolla Road between Crane and Stony Creek Roads. (map here)

Migration Thursdays at The Arb
2024-03-28 08:00 - 10:00, 2024-04-04 08:00 - 10:00, 2024-04-11 08:00 - 10:00, 2024-04-18 08:00 - 10:00, 2024-04-25 08:00 - 10:00, 2024-05-02 08:00 - 10:00 | Nichols Arboretum – Dow Prairie, Ann Arbor, MI, 48103, United States
Join us at Nichols Arboretum Thursday mornings through May to observe migrants making their way north. These leaderless walks are a great opportunity to join with other birders of all skill levels.
Directions: Meet at the east end of the arboretum near the Dow Prairie entrance.

All are welcome and encouraged to join us. New to birding? Bird curious? No binoculars? No problem! There is no better way to learn than to get out in the field with experienced birders that love to help. Plus, you get to meet awesome people. Absolutely everyone is welcome and encouraged to come out. We will have many pairs of quality binoculars on hand for anyone to use.

eBird Checklist Signup: If you are attending the walk and would like the eBird checklist shared with you, please give us your email or eBird username here (you may do this onsite well): tinyurl.com/eBirdList

Tour: UM Museum of Zoology Insect Collection
2024-03-30 14:00 - 16:00 | University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 3600 Varsity Drive, Ann Arbor, MI, 48108, United States
Insects are the most diverse group of organisms on the planet. There are an estimated 5.5 million species accounting for 80% of animal life on earth and the most biomass of all terrestrial animals. When it comes to birds, 97% of all North American land birds rely on animal protein, largely insects, to raise their young. The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology Insect Collection currently houses approximately 4.5 million prepared insect specimens from around the world as well as hundreds of historical field notebooks and audio recordings related to specimens in the collection. Join us for a presentation and tour of this wonderful resource.
Due to the nature of the space, we will be limiting the tour to 20 people and to Washtenaw Bird & Nature Alliance (formerly Washtenaw Audubon Society) members only and requiring registration. If there is space available the week prior to the event, we will open them to non-members. Memberships start at just $10 per year and go to great causes like environmental education, conservation, and scholarships for those in need. More information here.
Directions: Registered attendees will meet at University of Michigan Research Museums Center at 3600 Varsity Drive.

Woodcock Walk with Natural Area Preservation
2024-04-05 19:45 - 21:15 | Furstenberg Nature Area, 2626 Fuller Road, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, United States
**Note: We will depart the parking lot PROMPTLY at 8pm. If you would like to learn a little more about the American Woodcock, please arrive at 7:45**
Join Natural Area Preservation and Washtenaw Bird & Nature Alliance (formerly Washtenaw Audubon Society) as we partner to bring you another installment of our annual Woodcock Walk. If you have never witnessed the display of the American Woodcock, you should join us for this event. This wacky shorebird has evolved to live far away from water in the forest. After sunset, males will display by flying high into the air then engage in a circling dive that initiates their display call by moving air fast over three specially evolved feathers. Make sure to dress for the weather (walks happen rain or shine). You will be walking in the dark so bring a flashlight.
Registration is required and space is limited to provide a quality experience for all. We have scheduled two events this year to be able to accommodate everyone that is interested.
Register: http://tinyurl.com/WoodcockWAS
Directions: Meet at the Furstenberg parking lot off Fuller Rd.

Leader: Matt Spoor

Washtenaw Elementary Science Olympiad (WESO) Feathered Friends Walk
2024-04-06 09:30 - 11:30 | Scarlett Middle School, 3300 Lorraine St, Ann Arbor, MI, 48108, United States
This event at Scarlett-Mitchell Nature Area is meant specifically for students participating in the WESO event “Feathered Friends.” We will take a walk through and around the Scarlett-Mitchell Nature Area to look and listen for the birds in the area. All ages and skill levels are welcome. We will have extra binoculars if you do not have any. Wear boots as the nature area can get very muddy.
Directions: Meet at the parking lot of Scarlett Middle school.
Leader: Victor Chen

Wildflower Walk at Black Pond Woods
2024-04-06 13:00 - 15:00 | Leslie Science and Nature Center, 1831 Traver Rd,, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, United States
Spring is exploding and there is so much life to explore! Let’s go for a walk and explore the highly biodiverse oak hickory forest of Black Pond Woods. Many of our beautiful spring ephemeral wildflowers will be in bloom. There is such a short window to soak them in so come on out and learn all about them and other interesting things we may find.
Leader: Matt Spoor
Directions: Meet in the parking lot of Leslie Science & Nature Center at 1831 Traver Rd.

Woodcock Walk with Natural Area Preservation
2024-04-12 19:45 - 21:30 | Furstenberg Nature Area, 2626 Fuller Road, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, United States
**Note: We will depart the parking lot PROMPTLY at 8pm. If you would like to learn a little more about the American Woodcock, please arrive at 7:45**
Join Natural Area Preservation and Washtenaw Audubon as we partner to bring you another installment of our annual Woodcock Walk. If you have never witnessed the display of the American Woodcock, you should join us for this event. This wacky shorebird has evolved to live far away from water in the forest. After sunset, males will display by flying high into the air then engage in a circling dive that initiates their display call by moving air fast over three specially evolved feathers. Make sure to dress for the weather (walks happen rain or shine). You will be walking in the dark so bring a flashlight.
Registration is required and space is limited to provide a quality experience for all. We have scheduled two events this year to be able to accommodate everyone that is interested.
Register: tinyurl.com/WoodcockWAS2
Directions: Meet at the Furstenberg parking lot off Fuller Rd.

Leader: Ray Stocking

Weekend Walk for Waterfowl at Hewens Creek Park
2024-04-14 09:00 - 12:00 | Hewen’s Creek Park South Trailhead, 6515 Bemis Rd, Ypsilanti Charter Township, MI, 48197, United States
This beautiful 191-acre park is located on the south side of Ypsilanti Township has had 162 species reported in April and is a great place to find migrating waterfowl. We will explore the pond and then walk the forest in search of amazing birds.
Directions: Navigate to 6515 Bemis Road and you will find us in the parking lot.
Leaders: Matt Spoor & Juliet Berger

Texas Tour with Ben Lucking
2024-04-16 - 2024-04-24 | MI
Each April, a significant proportion of North America’s migratory birds descend on Texas in what is among the world’s greatest migratory spectacles. The Gulf Coast’s famed migration hotspots such as High Island and Sabine Woods see mass afternoon arrivals of birds that left the Yucatan the evening prior. Hooded, Kentucky, and Swainson’s warblers fill dark understories while flocks of Indigo Buntings and Bobolink find themselves in grassy verges and saltmarsh. Adjacent mudflats and beaches are alive with vast numbers of American Avocets, peeps, and plovers. Rice fields just inland hold plentiful Black-necked Stilts, White-faced Ibis, dowitchers, and the odd Hudsonian Godwit.
In addition to the migratory riches of the Gulf Coast, Texas is home to a rich diversity of landscapes. Heading West of Houston, prairies filled with Scissor-tailed Flycatchers make way to Texas Hill Country. This region is something of a crossroads in avian diversity. Eastern migrants such as Black-and-White Warbler, Yellow-throated Vireo, and Least Flycatcher meet dry Southwestern species such as Cactus Wren, Scott’s Oriole, Scaled Quail, and Greater Roadrunner; Southern species such as Green Jay, Ringed Kingfisher, Tropical Parula, and Morelet’s Seedeater; and a whole cast of regional specialties such as Golden-cheeked Warbler, Black-capped Vireo, and Black-crested Titmouse. Heading further West, the landscape grows increasingly dry, culminating in the vast expanses of the Chihuahuan Desert. Rising up from this desolate landscape are Big Bend National Park’s Chisos Mountains. The wetter, vegetated valleys high among these peaks are home to one of the ABA area’s rarest breeding birds, the Colima Warbler.
Texas’s diversity of habitats and location at the heart of the Central Flyway give it the greatest avian diversity of anywhere in the ABA area. The current ABA area record of 294 species seen or heard in a day, set by a Cornell team in 2013, was set using a route from Texas Hill Country to the Gulf Coast. This tour aims to be a relaxed pace, extended version of that record day’s incredible route. We’ll begin on the Gulf Coast, before making our way West across Hill Country and the Edwards Plateau to Big Bend’s Chisos Mountains. We will fly in and out of Houston, and the tour will include a one way flight from West Texas to Houston at the end of the tour.
Maximum of 3 participants with 1 leader, or 6 with 2 leaders.
Download/view this PDF for detailed information, including pricing, a detailed itinerary, and contact information.

Birding Costa Rica, with Len Sander
2024-04-17 18:00 - 19:30 | Ann Arbor District Library: Downtown, 343 South Fifth Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI, 48104, United States
Please note new location and time!
Join Len Sander for an informative program on birding in Costa Rica. This Central American country, despite its small size, has one of the greatest biodiversities in Latin America, with 948 bird species, including seven endemics and 73 near-endemics. Len Sander is professor emeritus of physics and complex systems at the University of Michigan, a keen birder, and an avid photographer.
This will be a hybrid in-person (at our new location, the downtown Ann Arbor District Library) and virtual meeting.
The link you the live stream can be found at least one hour before the event on AADL site here: https://aadl.org/node/625001

BIPOC Bird Walk at Furstenberg Nature Area
2024-04-20 09:30 - 11:30 | Furstenberg Nature Area, 2626 Fuller Road, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, United States
We invite all people from the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) community and our white allies to join us on this walk to look for early spring migrants. All ages and skill levels are invited. We will have extra binoculars if you do not have any.
Directions: Meet in the main Furstenberg parking lot by the bathrooms.
Leader: Victor Chen

Restoration Workday at Searles Nature Preserve
2024-04-27 14:00 - 16:00 | Searles Nature Preserve, 585V+4J Ypsilanti, Michigan, Ypsilanti, MI, 48197, United States
Did you know Washtenaw Bird & Nature Alliance (formerly Washtenaw Audubon Society) owns a nature preserve? We do! Searles Nature Preserve is a 50 acre natural area that hosts the headwaters of Stony Creek. Did you also know that Ninety-seven percent of North American landbirds require animal, primarily insect, protein to raise their young? Most insects require specific, native, host plants for successful reproduction and this is why supporting a biodiverse ecosystem of native plants is so important. More on this here: https://tinyl.io/93Ka
Join us as we work to remove invasive species and improve biodiversity to support the birds we love. Tools and know how will be provided. Bring gardening gloves (we will have extra), wear long pants, tall socks, and closed-toe shoes or boots.
Directions: Meet at the entrance to the preserve on Bolla Road between Crane and Stony Creek Roads. (map here)

Weekend Walk for Wildflowers & Birds at Nan Weston Preserve
2024-04-28 08:00 - 10:00 | Nan Weston Preserve, Easudes Rd, Manchester, 48158
Join us to explore Nan Weston Preserve for spring ephemeral wildflowers and migrating birds. This 248 acre preserve is owned and protected by the Nature Conservancy and features more than 260 species of wildflowers and other native plants. It should be a beautiful, educational and enjoyable walk.
Directions: Meet in the parking lot off of Easudes Rd.
Leaders: Matthew Spoor & Juliet Berger

All are welcome and encouraged to join us. New to birding? Bird curious? No binoculars? No problem! There is no better way to learn than to get out in the field with experienced birders that love to help. Plus, you get to meet awesome people. Absolutely everyone is welcome and encouraged to come out. We will have many pairs of quality binoculars on hand for anyone to use.

eBird Checklist Signup: If you are attending the walk and would like the eBird checklist shared with you, please give us your email or eBird username here (you may do this onsite well): tinyurl.com/eBirdList

Spring Migrants and Summer Residents at Hudson Mills Metropark
2024-05-05 08:00 - 11:00 | Hudson Mills Activity Center Parking Lot, 93GV+C6V, Hudson Mills, MI, United States
This annual walk at Hudson Mills with Karen Markey is always tons of fun and super interesting. Join us as we search for spring migrants and recently returned summer residents. Target birds include beautiful spring wood warblers, woodpeckers, tanagers, towhees, thrushes, and any of the other 146 species seen here in May. The field trip is free, but a Metroparks Pass is required for admission. Free passes can be checked out using your library account via Michigan Activity Pass.
Leader: Karen Markey
Directions: Meet at the southern end of the large parking lot near the Activity Center. (map here)
All are welcome and encouraged to join us. New to birding? Bird curious? No binoculars? No problem! There is no better way to learn than to get out in the field with experienced birders that love to help. Plus, you get to meet awesome people. Absolutely everyone is welcome and encouraged to come out. We will have many pairs of quality binoculars on hand for anyone to use.

eBird Checklist Signup: If you are attending the walk and would like the eBird checklist shared with you, please give us your email or eBird username here (you may do this onsite well): tinyurl.com/eBirdList
