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Field Trip to Lake Isaac Waterfowl Sanctuary and Audubon Spring Bird Walk Sunday, April 30, 2017

4/30/2017

Western Cuyahoga Audubon birders will join in on one of the Audubon Spring Bird Walks for our April field trip. A variety of habitats around Lake Isaac includes forest and fields as well as Lake Isaac.

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Special Event: Restoring Endangered Seabirds: Lessons from Puffins & Terns with Dr. Stephen Kress

4/28/2017

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Photo courtesy of Casey Tucker, Founder and Director of the American Avian Conservation Association

Dr. Stephen Kress is Vice-President for Bird Conservation, National Audubon Society and Director, Seabird Restoration Program & Hog Island Camp

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Notes from Ohio Audubon Gathering, Grange Insurance Audubon Center, Columbus, OH on April 8, 2017

4/21/2017

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Through the regional office, National Audubon will work to communicate and work better with chapters.

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Second Saturday Bird Walk April 8, 2017 at Rocky River Nature Center Report

4/17/2017

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Migration brought sparrows, swallows, three Brown Creepers and a Louisiana Waterthrush. Snowy early-spring gave way to warm late spring in the course of the morning.

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84th Annual Series of Weekly Spring Bird Walks April 16 - May 21, 2017

4/16/2017

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Birders have participated in Annual Audubon Spring Bird Walks since 1932. Watch spring migrants return or travel through to their summer breeding grounds during the Annual Audubon Spring Bird Walk.

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Second Saturday Bird Walk April 8, 2017 at Rocky River Nature Center

4/8/2017

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Will we see seven species of woodpecker on this walk? 'Tis the season. Downy, Hairy, Pileated and Red-bellied are year-round residents. Northern Flickers and Red-headed Woodpeckers are arriving for summer nesting.

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Speaker Series April 4, 2017-Invasive Plant Control Along the Lake Erie Shoreline in Northeast Ohio with Zachary Kron, The Nature Conservancy in Ohio

4/4/2017

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In 2016, The Nature Conservancy was awarded a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grant to control 1,000 acres of invasive plant species throughout the coastal habitats of Lake Erie in northeast Ohio.

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COUNCIL OF OHIO AUDUBON CHAPTERS-COAC Annual Business Mtg & 50 Year Anniversary Celebration, Sun Mar 3, 2019 ANNOUNCEMENT & REGISTRATION

WCAS Project Lab

What’s a WCAS Conservation Project Lab?? Kurt Miske, WCAS Board member, Ch Conservation Committee, talks about why WCAS launched Project Labs at Bethany Presbyterian Church, Gordon Square Arts District and what's happening because of them. Article

NEO Sierra Club members Kathy Schaefer, Urban Issues Committee, and Fran Mentch, Activist, Co-Chair, Water Committee, participate in the Jan 2019 WCAS Conservation Project Lab, Bethany Presbyterian Church, Cleveland, OH, Gordon Square Arts District.

"Well, I was just at the most recent Western Cuyahoga Audubon meeting and we're planning new projects to possibly raise money through growing native plants and selling them to people who are interested in growing native plants in their gardens." ~ Patrick McGuigan

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Terry Robison, Dir Natural Resources, Cleveland Metroparks, and Tom Romito, WCAS, talk about the value WCAS members have brought to advance NEO conservation at the Cleveland Metroparks.

Above: Rocky River Reservation by Tom Fishburn.

Thank you for joining us for “Conservation Stories of Western Cuyahoga Audubon”, an evening of legendary member stories and participatory idea stations to generate next-gen conservation projects supported by the WCAS Giving Day Fund.

Wendy Weirich, Dir Outdoor Experiences, Cleveland Metroparks, Tom Romito, WCAS, and Tim Colborn, Ohio Ornithological Society, talk about the value conservation groups bring to regional conservation efforts and how we can all work together for a better world.

Quarterly Newsletter

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Waterfowl Hotspot Field Trip at Sandy Ridge Reservation, Sat Nov 17, 2018 Report

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Bird Photo

Picture Eastern Screech Owl, Sheldon Marsh State Nature Preserve, 2715 Cleveland Rd W, Huron, OH 44839 by David Lewis

Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) feast on some Hawthorn fruits on a bitterly cold afternoon at Gordon Park in Cleveland, Ohio Chuck Slusarczyk Jr.