Join Shirley Devan New Year’s Day – Tuesday, January 1, 2019 – at the Greensprings Trail Boardwalk for the 14th Annual “New Year’s Day Boardwalk Bird Show.”
We’ll meet on the boardwalk on the “Main Loop” over the “Beaver Pond and Wetlands” from 1–3 pm (not the Virginia Capitol Trail boardwalk.) See map below.
Park in the lot at the end of Eagle Way, beyond Jamestown High School on John Tyler Highway. Come as you are; bring visiting family, friends and children; come early, stay late or just drop by. Celebrate the New Year with a birding adventure close to home with birding friends. Remember, every bird is a year bird on New Year’s Day! Hope to see you there.
Check out this link if you want to know more about the Greensprings Interpretive Trail: http://jamescitycountyva.gov/DocumentCenter/View/9065
The street address for your GPS is: 3751 John Tyler Highway, Williamsburg, VA 23185
https://jamescitycountyva.gov/DocumentCenter/View/16839/Greensprings-Powhatan-Trails-Map-PDF
Please join us this year for the National Audubon Society’s 119th Christmas Bird Count (CBC). Our count day will be Sunday, December 16th, during which our field teams will survey all of the birds seen or heard across eleven sectors in our 15-mile diameter count circle centered around Williamsburg. In addition to the field teams, we rely on a growing army of feeder watchers who count the birds at their feeders, back yards, and neighborhoods to help us form a complete picture of how our bird populations have been changing over time.
The Christmas Bird Count is a wonderful opportunity for everyone to get involved in the longest-running citizen science project in the United States. Anyone can choose to team up with a party in the field or volunteer to be a feeder watcher right at home. Whatever you can contribute, even if it’s just for a few hours, is valuable to the success of our count. The more eyes we have in the field, or on our feeders, will make the day more fun for everyone and help us provide the best data we can to this important project.
More information about the CBC can be found on the Audubon Society’s web site http://www.audubon.org/conservation/science/christmas-bird-count. If you want to get involved but you’re not sure what to do, then contact Jim Corliss and he will help connect you with a sector coordinator. Phone: 757-755-1544. Email: jcorliss240@cox.net.
Our annual Williamsburg Spring Bird Count will be Sunday, May 6, 2018. We conduct the Spring Bird Count (SBC) within the same 15-mile diameter count circle that we use for the Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count. The count data, however, is not compiled by the Audubon Society. Instead, we record the SBC results into a database that we maintain ourselves as part of the Williamsburg Bird Club’s work to monitor our local populations throughout the year. Our club conducted it’s first SBC on May 6, 1978.
Please consider participating, either as a feeder watcher or in the field. If you enjoyed feeder-watching for last year’s Christmas Bird Count, then this is a great opportunity to do it again. Simply record your species counts at your feeders and then send them to your sector leader like you did for the CBC. If you sent your feeder counts to Jim Corliss for last year’s CBC, then you can simply do that again for the SBC. If you’re unsure who your sector leader is or if you’re new to feeder-watching for our bird counts, then please contact me with questions.
If you’ve previously participated in the field and would like to do it again, then please contact the sector leader with whom you worked last time. You can also contact Jim for assistance getting hooked up with a field team. The more eyes we have in the field the more birds we’ll spot, so please don’t hesitate to get involved.
Bill Williams will present a talk on the birds in the Williamsburg area. Free and open to the public.
Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas Training-Ashley Peele (Project Coordinator who is based at the Conservation Management Institute at Virginia Tech) and Dave Youker (a member of WBC and Region 11 Leader)
Date: April 13, 2018…. 9:30-12:30
Location: Freedom Park
Directions: From Interstate 64 take exit 234A to Route 199. From Route 199 take the Longhill Road exit. Turn right onto Longhill Road (Route 612). Follow Longhill Road until it ends at the park gates. Once inside the park gates, follow road to the parking lot.
We are exploring many fun ways of surveying in our assigned blocks, including working in mini teams and conducting a monthly first Saturday walk/survey in a somewhat close priority block. Don’t miss out on the fun!! Mark your calendar and Save the date.
