Four Tulsa birders were joined by five Bartlesville folks Saturday morning to walk the Pathfinder Parkway and see what birds we could find. Migration still seems to be a little later than usual, but we did find a few good birds. Here is a list of the highlights:
White-eyed Vireo-2
Warbling Vireo-2
Yellow-throated Vireo-2
Red-eyed Vireo-1
Orange-crowned Warbler-3
Northern Parula Warbler-3
Myrtle Warbler-5
Yellow-throated Warbler-2
Prothonotary Warbler-2
Louisiana Waterthrush-1
Lincoln's Sparrow-5
Thanks go to Mark Peterson for leading us, and to Jen Wong for the attached photos. - Jim Deming
Seven Tulsa Audubon members met four Indian Nations Audubon members at Spavinaw State Park for a day of birds and wild flowers. After birding around the park and vicinity, we headed for the main objective; the City of Tulsa property between Lakes Spavinaw and Eucha, which has been largely untouched for 100 years.Migrating birds were scarce, but we did find Louisiana Waterthrushes, Northern Parula, and Yellow-throated Warbler. The Ozark wildflowers were blooming nicely, and we saw Woodland Phlox, Rue Anemone, Dutchman's Breeches, Bloodroot, Trout Lillies, Yellow and Blue Violets, Cutleaved Toothwort, and others we could not identify. Both Spavinaw and Eucha Lakes still had Common Loons, and Eucha had an Osprey. After lunch in Jay, we went to the upper Eucha area for a while before heading home. There we found a rookery of Great Blue Herons, and observed them coming and going for a while. We lucked out on the weather, and while we finished with only 52 bird species, we all agreed it was a very good trip.Here is the complete bird list:Canada GooseGadwallScaup sp.Common LoonPied-billed GrebeDouble-crested CormorantAmerican White PelicanGreat Blue HeronBlack VultureTurkey VultureOspreyBald EagleRed-shouldered HawkRed-tailed HawkAmerican CootBonaparte's GullFranklin's GullEurasian Collared-DoveMourning DoveRed-bellied WoodpeckerDowny WoodpeckerHairy WoodpeckerNorthern FlickerPileated WoodpeckerEastern PhoebeScissor-tailed FlycatcherBlue JayAmerican CrowFish CrowBarn SwallowCarolina ChickadeeTufted TitmouseWhite-breasted NuthatchCarolina WrenBlue-gray GnatcatcherEastern BluebirdAmerican RobinNorthern MockingbirdEuropean StarlingLouisiana WaterthrushNorthern ParulaYellow-throated WarblerChipping SparrowSong SparrowWhite-throated SparrowNorthern CardinalRed-winged BlackbirdCommon GrackleHouse FinchAmerican GoldfinchHouse Sparrow
The American Woodcocks are back!!!! And they are displaying at Oxley Nature Center, so it's time for an ad-hoc field trip. We'll meet on Thursday, Feb. 21 at 6:00 p.m. at the gate into Oxley Nature Center. Be on time or early, as they started displaying about 6:15. Please park in the lots just before the gate.
We'll be meeting Amy from Oxley there and she recommends we stay on the entrance road rather than walking down the flowline, which is very wet. She has been seeing them about half way up the road.
Woodcock Watch Etiquette: The birds are somewhat tolerant of people, but be sure to keep your voices down, so everyone can hear the peenting, and stay with the group. You are welcome to bring a camera, but know it will be dark and they are very difficult to photograph. Since we are with a group please do not use any flashes, and stay with the group and don't try to get closer. As with most wildlife photography, you are best off doing it alone without a crowd around.
We'll be meeting Amy from Oxley there and she recommends we stay on the entrance road rather than walking down the flowline, which is very wet. She has been seeing them about half way up the road.
Woodcock Watch Etiquette: The birds are somewhat tolerant of people, but be sure to keep your voices down, so everyone can hear the peenting, and stay with the group. You are welcome to bring a camera, but know it will be dark and they are very difficult to photograph. Since we are with a group please do not use any flashes, and stay with the group and don't try to get closer. As with most wildlife photography, you are best off doing it alone without a crowd around.
Saturday's (Feb. 16) field trip to Tulsa Area Lakes has been canceled. Like many around Tulsa, Terry and some other alternate leaders are not feeling well, so we are canceling this trip.
Nov. 27th is #GivingTuesday
, a national day of giving when Americans support their favorite causes. Please consider our very local project, which is our year-end appeal to help us establish our Outreach Committee so we can spread the word about birds and wildlife in the Tulsa community. You can donate
via
credit card or PayPal
, but even better is if you are a Facebook member and make your donation
on #GivingTuesday, Nov 27th, Facebook and PayPal will match your donation!
Tulsa Audubon receives many requests throughout the year asking us to provide speakers for various community, civic and school groups. We love sharing our love of birds and nature with others, but being a volunteer group makes it difficult for us to accommodate all these requests.
To solve this problem, we have formed a new Outreach Committee. Donna Horton, retired Naturalist from Oxley Nature Center, is helping us develop various programs for both adults and students. She is also providing us training on how to do a presentation (a skill Donna excels at!) By having pre-prepared programs, and offering training, we can expand our pool of volunteers to present these programs.
While our presenters will all be TAS volunteers, there are costs to ramping up this program. We will need to purchase a projector, put together kits for the school presentations with hands-on items, storage boxes, a rolling cart and other mundane but necessary supplies. We are developing appropriate handouts for participants that need to be printed. Finally, we are also pursuing a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Salvage Permit, allowing TAS to possess and use educational wildlife specimens.
Our goal for this is $1,500.
Your contribution will make an impact, whether you donate $5 or $500. Every little bit helps. Thank you for your support.
We already have a small pool of volunteers working with our new Outreach Committee, but we still need more help! If you would like to volunteer to present some of our prepared programs (along with appropriate training) please contact Julia Harris at 918-493-2388 or scotfiddle@aol.com.
Donate via Facebook (Donations made on #GIvingTuesday, Nov 27, will be matched!)
Donate via Credit Card or PayPal
Tulsa Audubon receives many requests throughout the year asking us to provide speakers for various community, civic and school groups. We love sharing our love of birds and nature with others, but being a volunteer group makes it difficult for us to accommodate all these requests.
To solve this problem, we have formed a new Outreach Committee. Donna Horton, retired Naturalist from Oxley Nature Center, is helping us develop various programs for both adults and students. She is also providing us training on how to do a presentation (a skill Donna excels at!) By having pre-prepared programs, and offering training, we can expand our pool of volunteers to present these programs.
While our presenters will all be TAS volunteers, there are costs to ramping up this program. We will need to purchase a projector, put together kits for the school presentations with hands-on items, storage boxes, a rolling cart and other mundane but necessary supplies. We are developing appropriate handouts for participants that need to be printed. Finally, we are also pursuing a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Salvage Permit, allowing TAS to possess and use educational wildlife specimens.
Our goal for this is $1,500.
Your contribution will make an impact, whether you donate $5 or $500. Every little bit helps. Thank you for your support.
We already have a small pool of volunteers working with our new Outreach Committee, but we still need more help! If you would like to volunteer to present some of our prepared programs (along with appropriate training) please contact Julia Harris at 918-493-2388 or scotfiddle@aol.com.
Donate via Facebook (Donations made on #GIvingTuesday, Nov 27, will be matched!)
Donate via Credit Card or PayPal
The Tulsa Audubon Society is teaming up with the Jenks High School Ornithology Program to once again host the annual Tulsa Eagle Day event on Saturday, January 26. The event is FREE to the public and geared toward adults and children alike.
For 2019 we are updating our program. We will have the wild Bald Eagle Watch early in the morning along the Arkansas River followed by a "Raptor Rally" at the Jenks High School, featuring separate presentations for both adults and children, all featuring live raptors!
The Outdoor Watch is 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. on the Jenks Pedestrian Bridge. Use the parking lot on the Jenks/West side of river, located at Riverfront Drive and "B" Street. (There is also a smaller overflow parking lot down below the main one.)
Join us after the viewing for our Raptor Rally, featuring live raptor presentations, from 9:00-12:15 at Jenks High School, Building 6, 301 N. Birch St.
Thanks to a generous donor, Tulsa Audubon is pleased to offeragaintwo full scholarships, each worth up to $1,500, to young birders to attend a youth birding camp in the summer of 2019. There are several such camps in different parts of the country and the scholarship can be applied to any of these. The eligible camps are described on the application. Some excellent discussion on youth birding camps can be found on the Young Birders Facebook page. More good info can be found on the American Birding Associations Young Birder's Blog.
| To be eligible, you must meet these criteria:
Note: These are not general nature camps, but are designed for youth that have a passion specifically for birds! You don't need to be an "expert" birder but do need to have a basic knowledge of birding and identifying birds.
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We're pleased to announce a new service from Tulsa Audubon. Video of our monthly meetings for those who are not able to make it to our Tuesday evening meetings, or for those who want to hear it again! Thanks to Ron Huebner for the providing this service! We are posting these on the Tulsa Audubon YouTube channel.
Our September meeting is up first, featuring Jay Pruett's program on the Birds of Cuba:
https://youtu.be/Owm7jOKuV1g
And the October meting, featuring Dr Mia Revels on Saw-whet Owls in Oklahoma:
https://youtu.be/D2Q8Dy2mAPM
And the October meting, featuring Dr Mia Revels on Saw-whet Owls in Oklahoma:
https://youtu.be/D2Q8Dy2mAPM
We also have available there a lecture given to TAS by Dr. Doug Talamy from 2015.
For those interested in birds (that's all of us, right?!?) Recorder Paul Ribitzki's 2017 Annual Recorder's Report is now available.
It is a summary of the first and last dates reported, the number of field reports per season, the number of individuals per season, the total number of reports, and the total number of individuals. It makes for very interesting reading, and Paul compares the birds seen in 2017 to those seen in 2016, and there are some very interesting species both missed in 2016 and unusual species observed in 2017. You can view previous year's reports on the Recorder's Report
page
We had a big day Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018, at Flycatcher Trail as we dedicated our new donor recognition bricks. Thank You
to our many donors for making the latest improvements to possible, including a new crushed granite walkway and a new classroom space. And Flycatcher Trail would not be possible without the dedication of a group of committed volunteers who maintain the garden.
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