Community Out Reach Volunteering
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Where You Can Find Us at Up Coming Community Events (click the event titles for more details)
10th Annual Chagrin River Bird Quest Friday 4:00 p.m. Sept. 6 - Saturday 4:00 p.m. Sept. 7
Ready to go birding? Get your team together and share the day with family and friends, birding within the Chagrin River Corridor IBA (watershed). How many species can your team check off in 24 hours? Lots of prizes to win! Click Below for more info and to register your team. Chagrin River Bird Quest 2024 – Audubon Society of Greater Cleveland (clevelandaudubon.org) Headlands Birding Festival September 20 - 22, 2024The inaugural Headland Birding Festival will take place at Headlands Beach State Park.
Celebrate fall migration with bird walks, educational presentations and more. Social hour with refreshments starts at 6:00 p.m. both evenings. Registration begins Thursday, August 1, through Eventbrite. Check out the schedule of events ahead of time, as some require registration. 
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All Community Events
can use a volunteer like you! Volunteers needed for upcoming events on the left If Interested Please Contact Mary Ann at 440-255-0961 or blackbrookaud@aol.com 
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100 for FUN
January 100 Cooperative Challenge
Help us achieve seeing 100 bird species together this January. Bird anywhere in Ohio from parks and birding hot spots to your backyard bird feeders and share your lists with Blackbrook. To participate, share at least 4 bird lists with Blackbrook Audubon in January 2024. eBird lists can be shared with “FriendsofBlackbrook”, or you can email your bird lists to us at blackbrookaud@aol.com. Please include the date and birding location for emailed lists.
Keep tabs on our group's progress on the 100 for FUN page on Blackbrook's website, which will launch on January 1, and be updated on Tuesday and Saturday evenings throughout the month.
Join us on January 28, 2024, at 8:00 am, for our IBA walk at Orchard Hills Park to squeeze in a few more birds, followed by a 100 for FUN wrap-up. We will acknowledge top contributors, and the most frequently seen birds, and vote on the rarest bird spotted. We hope to see you there, happy birding!
Join us on January 28, 2024, at 8:00 am, for our IBA walk at Orchard Hills Park to squeeze in a few more birds, followed by a 100 for FUN wrap-up. We will acknowledge top contributors, and the most frequently seen birds, and vote on the rarest bird spotted. We hope to see you there, happy birding!
FINAL Count 111 - Day 31
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Snow Goose
On Most Lists -Canada Goose -(38 Lists) Mute Swan Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Mallard American Black Duck Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck Surf Scoter Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Ring-necked Pheasant Pied-billed Grebe Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Common Gallinule American Coot Sandhill Crane Killdeer Wilson's Snipe |
Purple Sandpiper
Bonaparte's Gull Most individuals - Ring-billed Gull -(5168) Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Iceland Gull Double-crested Cormorant Black-crowned Night Heron Great Blue Heron Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Great Horned Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Belted Kingfisher Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Northern Flicker American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Northern Shrike Blue Jay American Crow Common Raven Carolina Chickadee Black-capped Chickadee |
Tufted Titmouse
Horned Lark Ruby-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Kinglet White-breasted Nuthatch Red-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Winter Wren Carolina Wren European Starling Brown Thrasher Northern Mockingbird Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Robin House Sparrow House Finch Purple Finch Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Field Sparrow American Tree Sparrow Fox Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Bird 100- White-crowned Sparrow -Killbuck White-throated Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Eastern Towhee Eastern Meadowlark Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Pine Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Rarest -Black-throated Gray Warbler Northern Cardinal |
